Tag: 2023

tPOL ‘24 – Engaged

 

Welcome to my 2024 transitional Presentation of Learning, looking back on my 2023-24 school year in PLP Humanities 11 and BCFP 12.

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.

– Presentation of Learning Declaration

Within this presentation, I will be addressing the driving question of “How can I showcase evidence to demonstrate that PLP Success Behaviours have prepared me to advance to the next grade?”. You will see this through my reflections on; my growth as a learner in my PLP classes, my work ethic/habits, and examples of leadership, responsibility, high quality work, and barriers I faced. Let’s start with the success behaviours of “Agency”.

Agency


The project I have chosen to highlight my performance in agency is the most recent Humanities project; Cat and Maus. This project’s deliverable was a literary criticism of The Complete Maus by Art Spiegleman, a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about Art’s relationship with his father, Vladek, and Vladek’s experiences surviving the Holocaust. I have been interested in WWII and the Holocaust since elementary school, so I’ve been hoping for a project on this topic for a while.

Let’s now jump to that blog post for more -> Cat and Maus

Engagement

Overall, I think this has been my year of engagement.

At the beginning of the Humanities project “Who Cares and Why Bother?!”, we were asked if we cared or knew much about politics and to group up in the room accordingly, I chose to go with the least caring/least knowledge group. “At the start of this project, I was a person who didn’t know much about Canadian politics or government and to be honest, I didn’t care.” (Who Cares, Why Bother Blog Post), so originally I didn’t think I’d be very engaged in this project. Luckily, I was very wrong. I would like to specifically share some quotes from the blog post I wrote for this project because I couldn’t have said it better myself ;).

“In the discussion we had post-reading, I displayed complete knowledge of the book and as we all know, I love to talk, so I had a perfect opportunity to stretch my communication skills 💪.”

“Learning about how politics worked made me much more interested in it, and I think that’s is one of the reasons why youth don’t feel like they want to be involved in government processes.”

“Getting involved with the government and voting is a great way to contribute to positive change, which young people these days always seem to be fighting for. So when it comes to convincing young people to vote, focusing on issues they care about and telling them what each party can do to help seems to be an effective strategy!”

“I think the most impactful part of our presentation was the TikTok’s we made on issues in Canada that we care about. Showing the youth that the issues they care about are being acted on by some parties (and not acted on by others), is a motivation to vote to create the change they wish to see.”

These quotes are just an example of the engaged and positive learner I was during this project.

Conduct/Integrity

The Manhattan Project project is a great example where I displayed respect and citizenship. Being a group project making one final deliverable, leadership was integral to making sure the group didn’t fall apart. But where’s the line between being a leader who wants to get things done and being a boss-hog? I found that line working through this project, delegating tasks, supporting team members to complete their own work, and still keeping an eye out for quality control.

I want to wrap up with a TLDR on my take-aways and opportunities for growth next year;

  • I am an engaged, positive learner
  • I am both a respectful listener and a good leader
  • I can set realistic goals, self-assess, and make revisions
  • I will hand in my work on time by utilizing work time and keeping track of deadlines
  • I will continue to preserve through setbacks and be resilient

See you in grade 12!

  • “Who Cares, Why Bother” Debate

As Always,

Brooke

tPOL 2023 – Advancing

Before we start, here is the POL declaration- “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.”

Hello and welcome to my tPOL (transitional presentation of learning). In this post I will try to answer the question “Why do I feel I am ready to advance to the next grade?”. In short, I am ready to go on to grade 11 because I have become proficient at the skills that I learned and developed in grade 10. And hopefully the rest of this presentation proves that. I have chosen one project from each class to represent me as a learner this year.

First, a quick look at my learning plan.  I did an excellent job this year at trying to reach my proficiency goals for each class, which were rainbows 🌈 across the board.

Some things that I feel I have done well at that are in my learning plan this year would be;

  1. I have been using things regularly for both school and non school related tasks and it has helped me greatly.
  2. I have been communicating with teachers more frequently when I need help or some flexibility. This was something I have never been good at but I feel like I finally made some headway on it this year.
  3. Creating authentic work that I feel represents who I am and my worldview.

Something that I want to improve more on in my grade 11 year will be handing my work in on time. To do this, I will structure my homework time more clearly and get help from my mum to keep my accountability on track.

Evidence From my Classes

Humanities

Save Juno Beach!

One thing you may or may not know about me is that I have loved learning about WWII ever since elementary school. Half of the books I own are WWII related and war movies are by far my favourite genre. So imagine how excited I was to find out that we were doing a humanities project on my favourite topic in history.

Let’s pop over to my blog post that I did regarding that project – > Juno Beach

I chose to talk about this project today because it shows my passion as a learner. I have always been able to learn %200 faster when im learning about something that I am genuinely interested in, a skill that PLP suits so well because we are generally allowed to focus on specific topics that pique our interest.

Maker

My Podcast – The Alt Manifesto

First of all how cool was it to practically be able to make our podcast about whatever we wanted? Remember when I just said how I am so much more engaged when I’m learning about something I’m genuinely interested in? Well this was literally a perfect time for that passion to shine for me.

Personal Growth Planning

I’ve decided not to choose one specific “project” from PGP because I feel like they all kind of blend together into one larger picture. At the beginning of the year I was still just a fairly organized 15 yo who didn’t feel like there was any need to worry about my upcoming adult life or post-secondary plans. First we organized our physical and mental spaces, then worked on building up good long term habits with Atomic Habits by James Clear, then thought about our future careers and how to market ourselves like adults, then started asking questions like what degree am I going to get after high school? What schools might I go to? How will I financially support myself? How can I be financially literate?

Now I stand here as a 16 yo who can drive a car, has a job, and is saving for the future. I have vague plans for post-secondary that I am looking forward to exploring with my mum next year. In PGP this year I did exactly what the class entails right in it’s title, and that is why I am ready for grade 11.

Thank you so much for coming!