“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.”
Note: As always, though some competencies and success behaviours aren’t explicitly mentioned, they are inferred at points of this PoL.
To actually begin: Artists (the musical kind) have their Singles, and Albums, and they often put lots of effort into them. Everyone has their own version of this, like for me as a Learner, my Singles may be assignments, Or, as a PLP Learner, an Album could be a Presentation of Learning.
But anyway, I sort of led with that opening because I wanted this TPoL to be like a “good” song where everything is intentional and perfectly put. I mean, hopefully it is. Though obviously, this is another sight of perfectionism.
Generally in my PoLs, I want to showcase at least one major struggle that I’ve been recently dealing with, along with proof of progress for previously mentioned struggles. Along with showcasing experiences in specific classes and whatnot.
As for how I see PoLs, they are vitally important to one’s journey as a learner. Especially for us PLP Students, this is one of our few shots to give our audience a glimpses into our minds and what we do. This is when some of the key people in our academic careers are here and hopefully listening and not zoning out staring at the wall, ceiling, or floor like I do because I barely maintain eye contact with an audience.
In this year’s MPoL, I asked myself How do I actually work with myself? I answered with “I don’t know, and I never will.” Which still holds true as one can imagine, but more recently, I’ve been needing a mindset shift in order to work with myself well. If I were to revise my User Guide from Grade 8. It would look something like this:
Typically I’m Normal or Adept. Burnt is fairly rare, which is good.
Though of course I’m still to this day trying to get a better understanding of myself, and this above will likely change!
The WW1 Project.
That was my best project this year, why? Well I really enjoyed doing it (though stressful at times) and I’d say out of every single project I’ve done with this program, It was my most successful project productivity and mindset wise. As throughout it, I was fairly calm and organized. I never even really felt negative about this project, since I was having fun learning & creating.
You may notice that I commonly like the projects with a “large” end result, such as our Comics, or our Nationalism Videos.
In fact, In the Name of Nationalism was my most “normal” project ever. When I say normal project, I mean that chances are most of my peers don’t put too much time into their projects after school. And neither did I, I kept on track throughout the project leading to me not needing to do much work.
The project was really proof that I can still do well whilst having healthy boundaries with my schoolwork and myself, which had been a wonder for sometime for me.
Another example of this was PLP Science as a whole, since I liked the class, put effort into it, but didn’t work on much homework for it away from school. Which is why in the future I want my classes to be more like Science, where it’s fun, I enjoy it, but at the end of the day it doesn’t require too much work outside of school.
Since if I don’t have much work to do outside of school, I can put more time into my hobbies like programming. An example of this, was when last summer, I coded a fair bit actually:
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Though when school came around, I coded a lot less. Until recently (May / June), due to me not needing to put many hours outside of school onto my work, I started to code again.
Also to speak on Collaboration, with the key example being when we made a Thriller in Maker. That was my dream team: Caelum, Finn, and Parker. We were organized and everything:
Though I did contribute meaningfully (like everyone else), I definitely lacked on helping keep us on track. I’d say in that project maybe like 40% of the time we had to film was wasted. Which is why I now try to prioritize keeping my teams on track, DI is a good example of this. As I was often the one who generally kept my team on track:
Along with everything I do, One thing I’ve noticed is as a person I am immensely skilled at doing too much. As for semester two, along with my normal classes:
I had the additional:
By having all of these, my time management kind of took a massive hit. Which led me to become a lot less organized and efficient in completing my tasks. Though at the end of the day, I did choose this, and I have to take responsibility for the consequences of my decisions. In the end this showed how important it is to manage my commitments effectively in order to maintain a good lifestyle.
Now, that the school year will be practically over for me (academically) as I finish this presentation. What is the main thing I need to do over the summer that I want to emphasize in this TPoL?
Relaxing.
It’s seriously been a long time since I’ve just sat down with little to nothing in the back of my mind. I mean, that’ll never truly happen that would be concerning. But I mean, I want to remember what it’s like to not have many things that are constantly nagging me which need to get finished.
It’s seriously been a long time since I’ve just sat down with little to nothing in the back of my mind. I mean, that’ll never truly happen that would be concerning. But I mean, I want to remember what it’s like to not have many things that are constantly nagging me which need to get finished.
Generally, this year was a big one for everything: Myself, My Mindset, projects, Presentations of Learning, Volunteering Opportunities, Student Council, Coding Club, SEYSA, and so much more. When I think about it, I’ve been here for 2 years. What the frack.
Anyways, that’s a wrap.
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