So, this post is about my Student Led Conference, or SLC. In this, I’ll be showing off three pieces of work: One thing that I’m proud of, one thing that shows my growth as a learner, and one thing that shows my growth mindset.
Something that I’m proud of:
This year, I’m really proud of this year would have to be my science project on digestion. Not only does it have all the mandatory info for the digestion process, it’s also entertaining.
So, I’m really proud of this because it looks good, it teaches all the mandatory things, and I put a lot of effort into the stop motion. I worked on this with Willa, and she did some of the editing and the text parts. Together it turned out really great, and I hope we get a good mark (We haven’t been given a mark for it yet)
Something that shows my growth as a leaner:
I think that this one would have to be my Destination Imagination project.
I think it showed growth with my teamwork, because normally I’m used to doing everything on my own, and I don’t really do a lot of teamwork, but this really showed me that I can’t do everything on my own, and that if I’m in a team we all need to work together.
A great example of this would defiantly be working on the script. I was set on doing the script on my own, it was my thing. But then I got serious writers block, and I realized that this was exactly why we had a team, so that if someone got stuck we just got someone else to help. So I got help. Another thing was just at the start in general we were all just “we each have our own jobs, we work on that”. That was a good plan, but we really weren’t a team. So we had to use teamwork, and combine ideas. That really helped me with teamwork.
Actually, DI also helped me with my presentation skills. I used to hate doing presentations. I never spoke loud, I always looked at my feet, I had no confidence. But then we did our first Preformance of this, and we realized how much we needed to work on. First of all, our Preformance was supposed to be traverse staging. We completly ignored that, and face only one way. The next one was that we talked way to quietly. No one could hear us! And we didn’t have much confidence. We had our scripts with us, and we didn’t look at the audience. But then we did our second one, and we improved. Eventually, we got to the tournament, and we did great! This really helped me with presentation skills.
Something that shows growth mindset:
I think that the thing that showed the most growth mindset for me was our Stitch in Time unit, or our quilts. When I found out we were making quilts, I didn’t have to have anything to do with it. But I decided to seize the challenge. I was put in a group with Sofia, Robbie, and William.
Then it came to writing the story. By the end of the period, we had nothing. But, instead of giving up, we decided to keep on going. We texted each other that night, and by the next class, we had a story. We wrote it no problem.
We next had to make the quilt squares. It was hard, because we got a lot of critisisms. But instead of thinking ‘ah, no. We suck at this’ we improved. And then we printed it, and it looked great
All we had left was to stitch the quilt and frame it. It took a lot of effort. I mean a lot. But we did it, and now it looks like this:
Fabulous, isn’t it? Yeah. I think that really showed my growth mindset.
So, that’s it! I did it!
Well, that’s all for this post!
Read ya later
Ruby