TPOL: 2023
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.
This year, grade 10 has remained about the same since my Mpol in February in a lot of ways. Many of the opinions and points that I displayed in my Mpol still remain relevant now.
In my Tpol, I will be reflecting on my grade 10 year in PLP, including my success, my failure, highlights, lowlights, and of course my growth going forward. I will also be answering the question for this Tpol, which is “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?”
Humanities
Since my Mpol back in February, humanities has been going well for me. I really don’t have any incredible changes to report, because there has been a great consistency between projects. None have challenged me too much, and none have inspired me to use my creativity too much. That being said, I still think each project so far has been interesting enough, and enjoyable in their own way.
The best example of my growth in humanities was the last project completed this year, which was lies and Incongruencies. I found that one of my strongest traits, my writing, changed for the better.
For the majority of my writing, I usually cast aside form or standardized writing style, but throughout the completion of small writing assignments, my writing began to look better than ever.
In my learning plan for PLP 10, I made my goal to receive a rainbow 🌈. As it stands, I’m receiving a sunshine ☀️ which is below my expectations. This mark isn’t terrible but it’s not up to my standards and I feel like I could have put more effort into some aspects of humanities.
Maker
Maker has not been a priority in my mind for a while. Of course both the trips and the ongoing podcasting project are under the maker umbrella, but there’s been nothing recently that has been of utmost concern. As it stands I am receiving a rainbow 🌈 in Maker, though I predicted in my learning plan I would receive a sunshine ☀️.
In my learning plan pretty much the only thing I wrote about was my readiness for DI, which of course didn’t happen this year.
I would say the one thing I found most difficult in Maker this year has been the balance opportunities project. This was one of those projects that had a lot of moving parts and that is where my difficulties started.
Keeping on top of different ideas, lessons, and assignments was very difficult for me. I could barely focus on important concepts, I didn’t finish the book that was assigned, and I didn’t give enough effort to my work.
In reflection, I don’t have a good idea of how to solve this, not yet at least.
PGP Careers
Careers, like maker, has not been a priority recently. A lot of the PGP learning we did was at Loon Lake. Loon Lake was a great experience and I feel I learned a lot from the trip, mostly about myself but also about my work with others and about leadership.
Careers has been relatively simple. I am receiving a rainbow 🌈 for this class, which is great. I don’t think I’ve gone out of my way to overachieve in this class, but regardless I am happy with my mark.
I was able to exercise a lot of creativity in careers, which I’m grateful for. I was able to research future careers relating to my interests in design and fashion. So yes, I’m glad I had this opportunity.
Growth
I have learnt two very important things this year related to roadblocks in my path to success.
- Hardships leads to Adaptation.
- Adaptation leads to Perseverance.
There have been quite a few roadblocks I’ve faced this year. Both within school and outside of my learning I have been forced to adapt; and gradually my ability to adapt is equivalent to my ability to persevere.
And it is for this reason I believe I am ready to move on to PLP 11. I know I will fail in the future, but wth the knowledge that I can learn from my mistakes and that I have support I feel like I can get through anything.
Thank you for listening and I’ll now take any opinions or questions.