Thank you for coming to my presentation on learning. I am the expert of my own learning I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation if my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

So this is my first T pol. My grade 8 year has been filled with a lot and I don’t think I realized how stressful high school actually is. There were a lot of struggles I went through this year but for this T pol I am going to talk about some PLP success behaviours and reflect on some projects.

ASKING FOR HELP 

I think I could have asked for more help for certain things, even though most things I knew how to do on my own I think it would have been helpful to get someone to read it over and make sure it was the best it could be. One assignment we did that shows that is something we did in science. We were working on cells and made these cards, im not very good at explaining things but basicly I dont think my wording was very good. My drawing were very good in maker but I could improve them now with my iPad skills.

Sometimes I just want to get things done and hand them in and not think about checking them again and asking someone else to, so I that is something I a going to work on for grade 9.

WITH PEERS

I chose to talk about this because since the start of the year I really think I have come far, before I would sometimes have a hard time talking to people and now I am such an extrovert and made so many new friends. This also has to do with my work. The example im going to use is the exabition. Our group had not really thought of what we were going to say so on the day of the exabition we were like oh no. But I came up with this whole script on the spot and I think I did a pretty good job not even getting nervous on the spot too! There are other times I think I could show my growth in this too even in my daily life, whenever I go to sports my friends arent in im able to make new friends! During group work I make sure to share my answers too, wether its small things like sharing my question of the day or things like thinking of the main idea for DI.

ENTHUSIASM

So im going to talk about school, again I know hah. I am in PLP and I know a lot of plp kids enjoy school and use a lot of time on school but for me if I’m being honest that’s not how I feel. I really dont like school, when I get work I feel so much dread to do it. I dont like feeling this way about school becasue I know that I have to keep going on for a lot of years. I want to like school a bit more so then I will be able to turn my work into something other than a chore. Certain assignments that I really dread are, writing the blog posts because they take a long time and I feel like they are due in such short time, I could do it, the stress just really effects my work because when I am stressed I have a hard time working

GETTING EXCITED ABOUT SCIENCE

This year science didn’t excite me that much because most of the time I don’t care about little cells but I am excited for learning about space! It interests me because there is still so much to learn about the solar system. I still think the testing was fun in science, when we swabbed all the surfaces and saw my germs it got me much more germaphobic.

ANSWERING THE QUESTION

How can I prepare myself for the upcoming year?I have learned a lot about high school and how it works this year and I think I will be able to take a lot of it into grade 9, if I remember it by the next school year. I mean I obviously wont be able to remember everything but some key things I will and that where the question comes in. Plp and this whole year in general has taught me to not overthink. Just think of it as the simplistic thing. Especially is Oregon and with the book having so much, you just need to put it plain and simple and it will all be much easier. When I was writing this TPOL I was really stressing because it felt like so much but when I broke it down and did it paragraph by paragraph it became a lot simpler and easier.

Thanks you for listening to my TPOL, this grade 8 year was a journey for sure with memories and stresses. I met so many new people and shared so many new expieriences with friends.