My 2023 tPOL!!

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.

To start, (teacher doing tPOL) these are my parents Paul and Jen Hetherington. 

First off, PLP was a whole new experience for me. I was a little apprehensive about learning with the iPads, because I wasn’t that techy. The only school tech experience I had before the iPads was google classroom on a chrome book. I didn’t know if I was going to love or hate the style of learning. But it turns out that I love it. Now I have more experience on the iPad, more experience public speaking, and more experience with learning in different ways.

My favourite PLP class this year had to be maker, because I love anything to do with art and photography. I also loved humanities, because I learned about topics I hadn’t before. I also love science because all of the activities are very fun, and intriguing. I learned how to make a natural disaster! I’ve been learning so many new things this year in all of my classes.

So we created our learning plans what seems like forever ago, but here’s mine:

I definitely feel like I have made some of my growths into, well at least I can now probably can do them better then I used to. Especially with technology. So I feel like I have improved with the help of my teachers and fellow class mates.

As my blog is currently titled, I learned that its ok to F.A.I.L. Because its a first attempt in learning.

The exhibitions are obviously a big part of PLP. Our most recent one, the spring exhibition was all about our business and why we went to Oregon, but I’ll talk about that later. Here is my work advertising for our assigned business, Kam Meng. We also made soooo many drafts! We interviewed our business and put all our info in our journal. You can see all of my work in my journal! 

Here it is: LAUNCH Portfolio

This was the finished product of our stall for Kam Meng!:

My favourite part, and probably the most educational par, by far of PLP was the oregon field study. I absolutely love hands-on learning, and Oregon was all about that. We went to Oregon to do a humanities project about different businesses in Oregon and interviewed them to make advertisements. As I said I was assigned Kam Meng, which was an American Chinese food restaurant. My group and I, consisting of me, Mika, Esther, Izzy, Aiden, Mateo, and Sebastian, interviewed our business on our two separate trips.

Oregon was an experience in its self, but some points I really enjoyed. In terms of fun things, I loved zip lining, were we flew through the air, were attached to people having Asthma attacks, and even bumped into a Sasquatch. Another fun thing was bullwinkles, witch was a surprise stop! We did know we were going to a theme park. There were so many fun things to do, we climbed a ropes course, played laser tag, and even go carted.

In terms of the educational side, because yes, we did learn, I love many places where you could see marine life. My favourite was Yaquina head, where we met many sea urchins, even though there spiny they still give good hugs. We also watched seals give birth witch was interesting. Probably the most educational place we went was Hatfield marine science center. We did three different experiments, we counted and measured shrimp, raced crabs, and built R.O.Vs.

The whole Oregon trip was just amazing! Here’s my Oregon journal so you can see my trip as a whole:

I’m so excited for grade 9! Bring on the ups and downs, the hard work and the fun days, the field study’s and the exhibitions. 

The driving question was: Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level? I hope I am! I want to be! So, do you think I’m ready to go to grade 9?