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

This is my Dad, Travis Schisler, and my teacher. Unfortunately, my mom couldn’t make it today.

Today, I will share where I can grow, what I did well, and my learning goals for next year. I will also reflect on how I achieved this year’s goals by looking back at my previous M-Pols and T-Pols. Finally, I will set new goals for next year, grade 11.

I will discuss three different success behaviors: Agency, Self-Regulation, and Communication and Collaboration, expanding on how I have improved and can continue to improve in these areas.

First, for new readers, what is a T-Pol? A T-Pol stands for Transitional Presentation of Learning. These presentations help our teachers and parents understand our future learning goals and how we have achieved past ones. They also allow us to recognize areas for growth. I have realized many mistakes in my learning and how my habits aren’t always the best. I have learned to work more efficiently and understood that more isn’t always better. For me, a T-Pol is a tool to check in with my progress and improve for future years or the next semester. Feedback from teachers helps me focus and become smarter.

This T-Pol will help me identify my flaws and how I can address them in the future.

Agency

My teachers say Agency is the most important success behavior, as many other success behaviors are built around it. I will start by discussing my strengths, then my flaws, how I improved over this year from reflecting on my previous T-Pol, and finally, my plans for growth next year.

There are six subtopics under Agency: Ownership and Responsibility, Goals and Self-Assessing, Seeking Help, Accepting Feedback, Completing Evidence, and Resilience. I will focus on Resilience.

Resilience in learning is crucial. You need to know when to keep improving your work and when to stop and focus on something else. Another aspect of resilience is revising your work even after receiving repeated feedback from teachers. This is where my strengths lie. I absorb critique like a sponge, as my mom always says, and utilize it well to improve my work. However, I don’t critique my own work and lack the motivation to seek out teachers’ feedback. One of my goals last year was to attend tutorials for an entire semester, which I did. This helped me build resilience by having people check my work and then fixing it myself. In the future, I want to grow by revising my own work and having the resilience to make necessary changes.

 Communication and Collaboration

This has three subtopics: with peers, with teachers, and with technology. I have the most room for improvement and the biggest goals for next year in this category. My strength is effectively and respectfully communicating with peers and teachers, always gaining something valuable from these interactions. My weakness lies in using technology professionally. I sometimes get off-topic and start doing other things, but I ensure all my work is done before taking a break. I work for 30 minutes and then take a 7-minute break. Last year, my goal was to only get off-topic after finishing my work to my standards. I partially met this goal but was too excited about doing other things to revise my work. Improving my self-revision skills will not only enhance my habits but also make my work better. Next year, I want to revise and take critique from peers more effectively, pairing up with those who give the best feedback.

Engagement

I have strengths in engagement, particularly in group settings, where I pull my weight and more. Looking back at past projects, like our memorial project, I contributed significantly more than others in my group. I show enthusiasm and incorporate ideas from others, making them feel important and helpful. I realized I am a good leader in certain projects, particularly in engineering, where I led my group to create good designs. However, I don’t contribute as much in class discussions. I want to be more consistent, participating twice per class discussion. Reflection is a significant weakness under engagement, and I aim to improve my ability to reflect on my work and provide better critique to peers. Last year, my goal was to critique my own work more often. I used AI tools like ChatGPT and AI checkers to help with grammar and punctuation, which improved my work’s quality.

Main Goals for Grade 11

I have accomplished many small goals this year, but now I will focus on my two main goals for the first half of grade 11 and how I will achieve them.

My first big goal is to critique all my work by first changing some ideas and structure and then running it through AI to check for grammar and punctuation mistakes. This will elevate my learning and the quality of my work. I will use The Cray, a method I invented for the pre-Pol. If you want to learn more about The Cray effect, click here.

My second goal for next year is to be more engaged in class discussions. I want to ask more questions during lectures and be more involved in whiteboard work. I aim to ask two questions per lecture to show my curiosity and engagement. I also want to contribute ideas during whiteboard sessions rather than just writing, providing more examples for discussion. This will demonstrate my engagement and help me aim for an extending mark.

An extending mark is my overall goal for next year, and these steps will help me achieve it. Based on feedback from teachers, my main areas for improvement are class engagement and staying on topic. These steps will address those areas.

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Reflection on Goals

At the start of the year, I set goals for myself in my learning plan. Reflecting on them now, I see my progress. My goals were to stay on task all class and limit distractions. I achieved this by getting distracted only after finishing my work, which limited my distraction time. I also fixed my focus mode to receive notifications only from my parents.

For engagement, my goal was to contribute more in group work, which I did in the memorial project. However, I didn’t accomplish my goal of not being just the writer in whiteboard group assignments.

Another goal was to add everything to Things, which I achieved as the year progressed, making it a habit.

I also aimed to give better critique to peers, which I accomplished through practice in writing essays for humanities.

A significant change that helped me over the year was choosing who I spent time with at school. I started working with more focused peers like Charlie, Daniel, Tom, and Chris, which improved my focus during work periods. Listening to music also helped me stay focused, and I created a special playlist for working in class and at home. These changes improved my work and my reputation as a focused student in my teachers’ eyes.

 The Cray Effect

For the pre pol I made something called the Cray effect. The whole point of the Cray effect was to reflect on my work to make it better. I have tried my best to follow the Cray effect on my work. But what is the Cray effect?

The “C” stands for “Create Yourself”,

The “R” stands for “Reflect and Revise”,

The “A” stands for “Acknowledge your mistakes and learn from them”,

The “Y” stands for “Yeah, you did it! Give yourself a pat on the back”.

I believe that if you follow these steps, you can get a good mark. I have followed them for a couple of assignments and they have worked massively. In fact, one might say it’s “crayzy” how good it is. After using the Cray Effect, I showed my Showbie, demonstrating my new successes. Here is my YouTube video on The Cray Effect.

I have also created an ad to showcase how effective the Cray Effect truly is. Here it is.

Conclusion

This year has been productive, and I have become a better learner by adopting new habits and tools. I have accomplished many goals and look forward to continuing my growth in the future. Thank you for listening to my presentation.