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.”
Success behaviours
One of the agency’s that I’ve never been very good at is seeking help, I dont know why but I don’t like to ask for help. I’ve said at my last 3 pols that I would do this and i have not. But while making the comic I asked more questions about my work to improve it, I’ve been asking my peers for help to, for example I had max time my Tpol and help me critique it. Im also going to make sure that my parent are aware of my work load and are able to understand if i need to miss something to get my work done, for example my parent gave me the option to skip my sisters band to work on the comic because they new I had to get it done, I still did end up going buts its nice to know I had the option of opt out.
One of the agency I’m quite good at is resilience, I’ve found that I do not quit during setbacks. For example during D.I we had quite a few challenges with our pin ball game but i was able to fix those problems. When things don’t go as planed I find myself not lost for what to do I’m always able to get on the right path, for example when we were is Alberta our bus broke down and we had to take the public bus and some people were stressing out about are we not going to get home and I was just readjusting and getting ready for whats going to happen next.
One thing I’ve improved on is my time management its still needs work but has improved quite significantly since my last POL my use of things had been quite frequent I’ve been putting links to the assignment in basecamp in thing for quick and easy access and I’ve have multiple check lost for each assignment so I can break it it up into different sections to help balance my work load. one thing I could improve on for this is do it always id say I only do it for 70-80 % of my assignments.
How to prepare myself for grade ten
To make this go to 100% I’ve been using Things for everything like hanging out with friends or rowing regatas so that I get so used to using it that I start putting all my assignments, I also make sure that my things today slot is empty before i go out or play on my Xbox. I plan to keep using things over the summer for any summer learning I’m going to do and other activities so when grade 10 starts I’m already prepared for the year. While doing my homework i’m going to use the Pomodoro technique which involve (https://pomofocus.io/) setting a 25 minute timer and getting a task done in that that time then taking a 5 minute break, and you keep doing this till you are done. I have tried this a couple times and it has worked quite well. I used this technique while working on the Tpol and it made it allot easier.
distractions
I get distracted easily so I’ve been doing quite a few things to help solve this. Since my Mpol every time i work on my home work a put my phone on the other side of my room or just leave it upstairs become some time I subconsciously go on it. I also try to listen to music in class with the noise cancelling so that i dont get distracted by whatever the person behind me is talking about. Also I like how in PLP we do the random seething because not only does it let me reach out to new people but I’m never at a table with 2-3 people i get distracted with its more like 0-1 which makes it so that able to work productively.
I’ve also made sure that my parent are aware of my work load and are able to understand if I need to miss something to get my work done, for example my parent gave me the option to skip my sisters band to work on the comic because they new I had to get it done done, I still did end up going buts its nice to know i had the option of opt out
Spring Exhibition
This year I wasn’t here for the spring exhibition but I was here for the winter exhibition where we had to present our comic book about a battle in WW1 I had pashendale. This was one of my favourite exhibitions we made allot of the stuff on the day but there wasn’t a huge rush and we had to really improvise to get our tables ready witch was really cool because it made the tables look a bit ruff witch made the static more realistic to the topic of WW1.
D.I
My favourite part of the year was D.I, it may be unpopular opinion but I found that my group was mostly good and we worked quite well together And we won the da Vinci award with was quite awesome and felt nice because we put in so much work and it paid off. A large part of our success was our ability to communicate we had a group chat and most people respond in a timely manner including me making it easy arrange plans to work on the machine we also had a super organized basecamp.
One project I needed to work on was the frankenstuffies for this one I didn’t use my time wisely and ended up going to friends house when i needed to work on the video. This ended upo making my video shorter then was required this was due to lack of effort and plannning on my part. Also i did not make my parent aware of this assignment as they were unable to help remind me to work on it.
Many best and favourite assignment was D.I