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Develop Presentation about HWB research; carry out a self-assessment of your work (3 hrs).

Working with a critical friend (peer), each person present five slides (must be pictures) that can be used to summarise a piece of research or a policy focus in the wider area of HWB. The pair should decide and identify the assessment criteria that have to be used. This should be displayed in your e-portfolio. Write up a self-assessment of your presentation before you present it to your critical friend. Present your presentation to your critical friend and collect detailed feedback from your peer.

For this task I decided to do research on happiness. I thought this was appropriate as there is currently an Action for Happiness movement which is aims to create more happiness in society.

“Action for Happiness helps people take practical action for a happier and more caring world.

Our patron is The Dalai Lama and we have thousands of members taking action to increase wellbeing in their homes, workplaces, schools and local communities. Our vision is a happier world, with far fewer people suffering with mental health problems and far more people feeling good, functioning well and helping others.”

This movement is providing courses and resources to help people improve their mental wellbeing.

The PowerPoint presentation: Happiness presentation

Feedback sheet: Feedback sheet

I think if I was to do this task again, I would make sure that the success criteria is more specific. We left it quite open to do out research however this would have made it easier to know what to discuss and to maybe look at the challenges as well as the benefits or have our own view.

Write a 250 word assignment (2 hrs)

Using the assignment criteria, write 250 words of your assignment, complete with references and bibliography. You will then write a self-assessment of your short piece of work and include this with your mini snapshot essay. You will then share this with your critical peer and give written feedback to each other on your work.

Self assessment: I felt that this part of my assignment was rushed as it as to be done for one of the tasks. I think I need to make sure that I expand all of the points that I am making to ensure that there is depth within the assignment. I also think that I need to make sure that the essay flows so as the argument I am trying to make is developed. I also feel as though I need to synthesise my literature to make my argument more valid.

Peer assessment- my peer agreed with my comments, we thought it was worthwhile reading through it together so as we could identify any errors or areas that needed to be developed together.

HWB 250 words