I rather slam my head into an actual pole than do this but anyways, welcome to my grade 9 tPOL. Since theres an introductory paragraph i have to say, I’m going to put it all here because theres no way it’ll fit on a cue-card. 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. Anyways, just like its (just as bad) counterpart, the mPOL, I will be going over my learning and my growth this year, and what I can do differently next year. 

First I want to talk about how I’ve overcome some of my academic weaknesses over the year. Since most of my PLP classes ended after the mPOL, I’m mostly going to talk about humanities. Some weaknesses I’ve overcome (or improved on) are, being shy about my work around my academically smart friends, asking more questions to teachers and my classmates, and paying better attention to the lesson.

Some weaknesses I still need to work on are pushing myself to help in group work. The most recent example I can think of is for the WW1 project I definitely let my group do all the decision making and planning. I let them do this because I much rather be told what I need to do with instructions instead of telling others what they have to do. Overall for that issue I think it stems from my ADHD or another problem to do with my mind that I don’t quite understand at the moment

Small Things I want to improve next year would be being more active on basecamp and Showbie so that means checking my grades or following the lesson on basecamp instead of Doing whatever else. I think I definitely could improve if I tried to follow along or check my work more. Another thing I could do would be sitting down and doing my homework after school every day, I started the year doing that and it made me feel so good being responsible and actually getting my work done but its slowly faded out by the time we got back from Alberta. The last thing I could maybe start doing is not call out even if it’s an appropriate time to (like the Canadian history project we did with the debate over confederation [I REALLY WANTED THAT CAPITAL MAN])

I realized by now while writing this that I haven’t even mentioned the driving question. The driving question for tPOLs are “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?” I feel im ready to move on because I feel like I’ve improved enough in my weaknesses and I’ve possibly even refined some of my strengths like my optimism and overall good vibe in teamwork. Along with the growth I’ve made in humanities im also ready to meet new people i can work with and get to know next year.