This Year, my Tpol will sadly be about how I am not ready for plp 10 next year, I will be going into mainstream after a good run with plp.

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.

I have had a good run with PLP, but the projects and exhibitions are very stressful for me, my learning style and PLP’s are very different. It may work for others but I benefit from the mainstream style of learning. 

Let’s go over why.

I thought PLP would be able to challenge me to become a better learner on a more creative aspect, however it was a bit too challenging. During the start of projects when we were listening to the teacher and taking notes, I felt very confident because I can remember details pretty well. As soon as a project turned into a creative assignment, my brain shut off. This lead to me stressing out and not finishing it or finishing it poorly. This happened with my frankenstuffy video and my ww1 comic.

Photo of my work war one comic for our 2024 spring exhibition

 

Going into grade 10 mainstream I have a plan to help myself be a better learner. I signed up for summer school for English, so I could get an idea how to work in mainstream classes that I previously had in PLP. 

Next year, I’m gonna make sure to get more help, whether it’s from my teachers or my family I need help with my procrastination problem and I will make better habits for homework and studying. next year I will also have an L.A.C. block, which will help me a lot. 

Despite all my setbacks and PLP, I’ve had many good projects and good experiences with it.

Here are some of what I would think are my best projects. I found I did a really good job on my Oregon marketing poster in grade 8. That years exhibition was also my favourite because it was way less stressful than many others.

Here is my poster:

 

A skill that I got way better at this year from PLP is helpfulness. Being able to be positive in a negative situation helps turn it around. For example, during DI everybody in my group was a bit stressed about how it was gonna turn out. I stayed positive, helped my group and made contributions and it worked out well after we calm down and persevered in our challenges. Helpfulness also made our group atmospherel way more positive. At the start of DI when I got assigned to a  group of people that I’ve never talked too before, I was a bit anxious. Being helpful and a nice person helped our group come together. During the middle of the project when we had to start showing up tutorial, we  all tried to show up so we wouldn’t be bringing our group down because we knew each other better than before.

Next year, I’m gonna be working on resilience, because this year I was not being resilient during many projects. This is partly from other school work and family problems causing me too have stress, but I do have a procrastination problem which leads to more stress after I don’t finish projects. I feel if I can do projects that are more critical thinking based I will be more inclined to be resilient when a situation gets tough. Many of the creative projects we have done I have been behind, my ww1 comic, my frankenstuffy video and my bring your kid to work day video 

I have worked on reflecting this year. I still havent gotten too good but I have gotten better, however when I reflect on my work I usually realize what I need to change but I just dont do it. This is why I need to work on resilience during the summer. Having summer school and help from my mom will help me get better resilience skills. This in turn will help me use my reflecting skills to my advantage 

This being my last tpol, I wanted to thank all of my teachers for everything they have done for me. I have learned many things from different teachers, Ms Willemse has helped me so much with honest feedback, Mr Harris has helped show me different ways to do things that might help me complete projects, Ms Madsen has showed me how to take notes and study properly, which is something I have never learned. Ms McWilliam helped me not get distracted in class with reminders and choosing a good group for me, Ms Kadi helped gain an interest in science 

For me, leaving PLP is not because of teachers or that I dont like the classes, it is because I benefit from different type of learning, some part of me says I could have stayed but it has gotten stressful for me because of the types of projcets we do. 

I am very thankful for all my PLP teachers and what they have done for me, however PLP wont work for me next year.

 

Thank you for coming to my final Tpol!