• Performance and effort thus far

Overall in the first half of this school year being in FLIGHT 9, I think I have learned a lot of new things that I probably couldn’t have in any other program such as learning to make the most out of technology and different apps.

• Study habits

I still have difficulties with staying on top of assignments, due dates, and doing my work diligently but I think that I have improved a lot in incorporating technology and different formats into my work and using research of my own along with my own ideas to complete projects.

• What are your strengths as a learner?
My strengths in school are being able to research and understand most of the things we are learning about in depth and being able to easily access that information later on for assignments and projects. For example, with the Cray Cray Yay Yay Keynote, I could easily remember the things that I had read about Frank Lloyd Wright making it super easy to answer all of the questions that others asked me. I also have really good short term memory, which is honestly

• What are your challenges as a learner?
I’ve realized that I need to improve the structure of my writing and maybe increase the variety of words that I use because after having to write more “structured” essays and paragraphs, I found that all of my info was scattered around everywhere instead of leading to the point I was aiming for. One example of this would definitely be my Gates essay (first draft) where I just took all of my information and put it together without any particular order or ending conclusion.

I also have trouble with staying on top of my work not because I don’t have enough time to complete it but rather because I procrastinate and that’s something that I definitely need to work hard on to fix as soon as possible.

• How can you take your academic performance to an even higher level?
I need to work on structuring my written work so it’s main point is clear and understandable and I need to work on getting assignments completed ahead of time so I have time to improve, edit, and revise it rather than doing it last minute and not having time to edit or getting caught up with other unexpected things like more homework or incase we go somewhere and run out of time.

• What are your social and participation strengths and challenges?
My strengths in working socially and in groups would be contributing to ideas and information and doing as much as I can. I would definitely make the Seattle Cray Cray Yay Yay project an extremely good example since I feel that I did a ton of work to pull the video and script together. Being DRI in that project especially made me work harder to improve the end result and I found it really hard trying to get the others in my group to work, but in the end it all worked out. I think my challenges would be getting others to listen to my ideas and my opinions because I have a hard time speaking up and sharing what I have to say… especially when it’s infront of the class.

• How have you grown in the classroom this year as a young adult?
This year I’ve learned many valuable (and hard) lessons and skills that will definitely help me in the future. For example, I learned the (very) hard way that I shouldn’t underestimate how important time management is even in “easy” assignments. Time management is something that I have continuously struggled with but this year, I took the easy work for granted and pushed it off and honestly… small stuff piled up over time REALLY adds up!!! The big example for this was the Into Thin air reading and I can read a few chapters in no time really and I can read an entire book the same size in literally two days (InkHeart) if I’m into it, but I really can’t if it’s something that long and I’m reading it for just school. I learned a lot about using different ways to present my work that typically in a regular class would have just been filling out a worksheet or answering questions. In FLIGHT though, I had the opportunity to present my work in various ways such as prezi’s, keynotes, brochures, skits, and the most interesting one for me was using iMovie!