It’s that time of year again! MPOLS, or SLCS are starting so it’s time to reflect! This year has been filled with lots of projects, but among them are a few that have room for growth!

Just before the break we started and finished our first essay. In the end I was pretty happy with my results and ideas, but the one thing I have always struggled with is my grammar. A major part that can progress me as a learner in my writing is revision. I think that if I ask my peers, teachers or parents after every revision to read over my writing It can motivate me to do better each time. Every time I reflect on some sort of writing assignment I always say I would like to improve my grammar, hopefully this time if I focus on my grammar and spelling these next few months I can progress as a learner before the end of the year!

The next thing that I would love to improve by the end of this year, focuses more on math. Math has always taken me a little but longer to understand, I think by deepening my knowledge of whatever concept we are learning can immensely improve this struggle. During the ideal angles project, I realized that I really needed to understand the concept before I actually did the project. This got me thinking about how in the future I need to improve this so I can actually take math concepts and use them in the real world. I think the only way I can progress as a learner by the end of the year is to ask more questions about each concept. I also feel like I should try learning these concepts more visually rather then listening to explanations, so maybe finding some videos that visually represent concepts can improve my math skills by the end of the year.

Moving on to science, a little while a ago we did a podcast project on the likeliness of twin relatives child looking the same. Along with this we did quite a few labs, this is something I would really like to improve, my thoroughness in my lab work. I think by video taping each lab, writing what I notice and reflecting each time, can help me progress as a learner by the end of the year.

Finally, Maker block! Since DI is starting again there are a few things I would love to work on. Leadership is one of the main aspects. I definitely feel like leadership is made up of many roles, one thing I would love to work on is responsibility. What I mean by this is when somebody can’t do something or doesn’t know how to, show them instead of doing it for them. I think the best way to improve on this is to reflect afterwards. Even asking group members can help progress my learning by the end of the year.

As many improvements as I would like to make this year, there are also many projects I am very proud of. I feel like my work ethic has also improved immensely by showing resilience in each revision I make throughout the projects we do.

One specific project I am very proud of and I thought showed high quality work was the Robson street video. I was very proud of this project for a few reasons. The first being, it showed the group’s personality and individuality through the whole video. The second being, it was very clear and concise, something I struggle to find most of the time. Throughout each project we do lots of revisions. I think the project I improved from the most throughout the revisions was my soldier podcast, click here to read about it.

The last project I thought showed teamwork and responsibility was the Vancouver project. I think it showed teamwork because each group member did equal amounts of work and tried their best to complete this project, even though if didn’t turn out in the end. It also showed responsibility, because throughout the podcast we had to contact an interviewee. We had to set up a date and time to go speak with her and had to follow through on the information she was giving us, this showed lots of responsibility. To get a more thorough understanding of the podcast, click here.

Throughout the next few months I am going to take into consideration every single thing I just talked about. I’ll use the skills I already have to progress as a learner, so that by the end of the year I’ll have better grammar, understand math concepts better, be more thorough, and a better leader.