Grade ten has been one of my best years in PLP so far but I still have quite a bit to go before I can say I’m as confident in my learning as I would like to be. 

With this years Mpols I am again going to talk about my learning and goals this year and how I think that I’ve improved and where I could use some more work. 

I’m going to start with what’s been going well so far this year and then get to the goal setting part later. I think that it has definitely been a mixed bag this year and I’ve had some really good projects but also some really bad ones. I have messed up on a few pieces so far this year and most of them happened through a few of the same major mistakes that I’ve been struggling with. The first of these is not going out of my way to get help on topics I don’t understand. I don’t usually get help if I’m struggling on a project and this has been happening more and more this year than others. This leads to me not understanding my work and so the project I actually put out is never really to the standards that I would like it to be. The example that I think fits this the most is the recent math project that we did in scimatics. We were using factoring and algebra and I never really understood the concepts. So when we needed to make a video to show our work it wasn’t really something that I was proud of and instead I just wanted to get past the project and start something else. If I asked for help regarding the subject I could have made a better project instead of not really understanding it and making a sub par video.

The algebra tiles project I wasn’t very proud of

Another example of something that I need to improve on is my self motivation. The amount of weekends where I have just sat around instead of actually getting work done is ridiculous and I have a really hard time motivating myself and instead I say “I have enough time to do this tomorrow morning. There is no specific example for this one that I can bring up rather it is just in most of my projects where procrastinated work till the last minute.

When it comes to improving these I have began to implement new ways of overcoming these challenges already, with some of that credit going to our PGP class which I will get to in a minute. My original ideas were to use Things more as it has already helped me since I started implementing it and I just need to get more used to it, it will help with my procrastination and give me reminders to get on top of my work which will keep me on track to handing stuff in on time. Starting this week I plan on putting nearly every assignment I get in Showbie into things and trying to get things done a few days in advance if possible. This will spread out my downtime across the week so I’m not relaxing all week and then spending an entire day working at the end of it because I forgot about an upcoming project. For my first point a out asking for help I’m going to try and be more interactive in class because even in topics that I know a lot about like WW2 in socials, I don’t answer questions in class that could keep me focused on the lesson so I don’t fall behind. 

 

Moving on to some more positive notes in things that I think that I improved in this year I think that the long term goal which I would normally have on here of being more organized with my work (which I can’t put because it’s banned this year) has seen major improvements in grade ten. From looking at my showbie I can see that there is a higher percentage of work that is handed in on time this year when compared to last year. I think that I am on track to having all of my work be on time by third term. I think the overall quality of my work has also been improving with some of my blog posts definitely being better written than last years as I have cut the length down so it isn’t as drawn out it hit the large word cap.

Expanding on my goals for this term is where our PGP comes into play now, This coarse is something that I can definitely see me using to my advantage this year as it will give me tools to work on my struggling points. The forms and book that we did for this Mpol have been interesting to read and fill out and are useful in me getting my main goals across. I’m going to post all of the forms below which include some goals that I set and where I want to be in a few weeks. This post was written for my mpols and will be updated later, here’s hoping it goes well.

Dream board: I want to manage my work better because I can see myself living better with proper work management.

A list showing my goals and some rewards that I’m using as motivation.

A more detailed list showing all of the goals that I want to complete.