Wow has this been a long year! So much has changed and I feel like I have learned so much more this year than any other year before. 

“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.”

Agency  

Agency is the sense of control that you have over yourself, your sense of independence and ability to have responsibility over your actions. I chose to focus on this subject because to me it feels like one of the most important characteristics to have and work on. I feel that I exc el at some parts of having Agency but I also struggle in some parts. In this section I feel that I am consistent in taking responsibility for my own learning and actions, setting goals and self assessing and accepting feedback and making revisions. What I need to work on firstly, is seeking help from my teachers when I don’t understand a topic, I usually go to my friends and peers when I need help, but it would also be beneficial to go to my teachers more often too. Secondly I need work on providing my work on time/earlier, this will give me time to make revisions if needed and hopefully will help me boost my grade from a %90 to an %100. Lastly I need to work on showing more resilience, I tend to find myself giving up when projects get hard or when I don’t understand something.

 

Communication and Collaboration 

I wanted to focus on this success behavior because this is the behavior that I have put the most time and effort into working on over the entire course of my high school career. But this is the year I think I have taken the biggest stride and made the most progress. In this proficiency I succeed with being a reliable team member and providing feedback for my classmates. I need to work on communication with my teachers and staying on task with my iPad. I’m not terrible with either of these things but there is definitely room for improvement.

Self Regulation 

The last proficiency I’m going to talk about is self regulation. In this proficiency I feel that I succeed in setting boundaries and having good balance between my school work, personal life and extra curricular activities. I also feel that I succeed at identifying sources of stress and being able to cope with them. Where I need to work on, is my focus, as I said in the last section, I can sometimes find myself getting distracted, especially when I’m sitting in class with my friends. Iv’e decided that if I need to get a lot of work done then next year I’m going to start finding another place to work to help eliminate any distractions.

My Top 3 projects of the year

I based these of not which ones I necessarily enjoyed the most but the ones where I learned the most and feel like I grew my skills the most from. 

Romeo? Romeo! 

This is by far one of the projects that I expected to go the worst for me, because I knew that we would be doing some form of acting which is something that I dislike to do and I consider myself extremely bad at. Despite that this ended up being a project I enjoyed doing even if I found it difficult at first. The products that we ended up with were way above my expectations and I’m proud to have presented the video we created.

Cray Cray Yay Yay

This project we went to Seattle for and created a PechaKucha that we presented to our parents. My PechaKucha was on Music of Seattle. This project was something I felt very uncomfortable with and made me feel very stressed because public speaking is something that I struggle a lot with. The reason that I put it up here is because I learned so incredibly much about public speaking over this entire project. It has made other speaking projects feel so much easier to do because I’ve learned the process in which I personally need to get prepared to feel comfortable and do the best to my abilities. 

Back to the future 

This project taught me so much about myself, It made me think about my skills, weaknesses, my habits and my personality. It really taught me about my learning habits and what I need to grow on as a person. This project also helped me start to feel empowered in my skills and gave me more confidence in both my school life and home life. 

Honorable Mentions: Pea’s in a Podcast 

Success’s 

Communication 

The growth of my communication skills has been a big success for me. I feel so much more comfortable doing group projects now and I feel that I have significantly improved on doing my part and even more in groups. Before I used to feel so uncomfortable taking any form of a leadership role but now I feel able to if needed and Im going to try to work on that more next year. 

Understanding myself 

This year we have done so many projects where we have to delve into our personal characteristics, habits and personalities. We’ve had three projects that fully focus on us. New Year New me, Back to the Future and Who Are You Gonna Be? These projects are one of the main reasons that I decided to join PLP because I wanted to focus on not only what I was learning in class throughout school but also what I was learning about myself throughout school, because High school is the times when we grow the most as people.I have not only learned about my flaws and fails as a person but I have learned what makes me great and unique, which sometimes all of us need to be reminded of. 

Failures 

Being aware of how we fail is such a difficult thing for so many people, but it’s also so important to think about. When we think about our failures is gives us a chance to change and improve. So I’m going to talk about some of my biggest F.A.I.L.’s this year (First attempt in learning). 

Punctuality

Being on time is personally what I think my biggest fail this year is. I struggled handing in assignments on time and I found myself procrastinating a lot this year, especially getting closer to the breaks when I was becoming burnt out. I need to get better at balancing my down time with my work time, because I found myself working very hard and succeeding at lot at the beginning of the year and after breaks but as the year on my work and preparation would go down on a decline. Next year Im going to work on my overall consistency over large periods of time. 

Thanks for listening to my TPol and I can’t wait for a great next year!! See you in Grade 11!!