Driving Question:
How can you showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP Success Behaviours have prepared you to advance to the next grade?

 

“Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.” 

 

I’ve loved the growth I have shown and the work I have done this year and by looking at these success behaviours I understand why I feel like I’m doing much better.

Yearly Update on Communication with Teachers 

• I have set goals each year to talk a lot more with teachers and this year, I am finally really proud of my growth in this area.
• On plp trips I would engage in conversation.  
• Will never been super comfortable talking to teachers about school work but I’m getting a lot better at casual conversations making talking about school easier. Mr. Hughes knows a lot of facts about Los Vegas Hotels including how one of them had people trapped in the top when it was on fire. I also learned Ms. McWilliams does not like silence during hiking but would choose to talk about her favourite TV shows with me and Gwen. 
• BIG WIN FOR ME 

 

Agency

Resilience

• I can tell that I have improved in this part of agency this year based on how I felt and responded when everything with the exhibition projects were changing.  For this past exhibition I felt like the plan and expectations for us changed a lot and we didn’t even fully know what was happening till the Thursday a WEEK before the exhibition
  • I  argued for us to be able to do both the Humanities project and the BCFP project, because I was really invested in both, but especially the humanities one where Fraser and I had a great idea. 
  • Then when we were told to merge them, instead of being paralyzed by anxiety like I have been in the past when expectations were changing,  I was the one in my group to started planning it out – I got a white board and wrote down all of the ideas we were coming up with then after checking with a teacher we were good to go.

• • And as you saw at the exhibition, our final projects were educational and engaging!
    • Fraser and I had multiple interactive parts, effective visuals, and a physical card the visitors could bring home with a link to our calls to action. Everything was presented well from the edges of the paper were crisp, and the layout was interesting. I also felt that I was super passionate about the topic and really enjoyed telling everyone one about it. That feeling shows growth because it was not something I wouldn’t have like doing in the younger Grades.

 

Engagement 

Enthusiasm 

• This year I have made so many products and presentations that I am really proud of. In other years there were maybe one or two projects I would maybe show off to my relative or something this year I have so many more!
• In the “Who Cares? Why Bother” government project, I made really good notes and shared my insights in the seminar which makes me feel very proud of myself.  I’m pleased that I spoke first and more than once.
• I notice that enthusiasm also influences how a group works together.  In the “who Cares? Why Bother?” My group worked together so well and was able to create an informative and engaging project with a memorable performance from Noah.
• Also in BCFP I created an awesome final product for the honouring the children project. In that one I really did have a good idea that inspired me to make it great. This is the project where there was the tree that had a residential school built around it and everything from the ground to the disconnected leaves had a connection and purpose for it. 
• Lastly, my overall engagement and enthusiasm was really evident in our “fear factor.” I am so proud of this product. Like in the BCFP project I was inspired. I took my animation abilities from BCFP and decided to make an interactive keynote animation that was like a choose your own adventure to show the decisions people had to make during the Cold War. Not only did I have simple animations, I had drawing animations and I embedded YouTube videos that looked like they were playing on a tv, and I had audio of videos and interviews. It can be a bit glitchy and I needed an extension but that was because I had so much I wanted to say. I also had taken a risk to do it in a format that I love to see from others, but don’t usually choose for myself. I am not an artist!  However, I am very proud of this product and I definitely did it to the best of my ability. 

 

While for this TPOL we needed to focus on just three success behaviours, when I looked over my chart I could check off the “consistently” box for all but one. This helps me see why I am doing so well this year. Who knew walking around a NEON museum would actually be interesting? Or learning about a small town named Kingman. Or why we should never go to a Barbed Wire museum.  Overall , with these consistent success behaviours, my stress levels have gone down and my abilities to take risks have gone up.