How have I demonstrated growth as a learner so far this year?

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Answering how much I have grown so far this year is a difficult question to answer. This is due to how fast this year has gone for me and even now I can’t believe how much time has past. Due to PLP being only taking up one class in the timetable I feel like in general we did not do much as previous years. Thus this post I don’t think reflect that much for my goals for the upcoming year due to most of my classes happening in the next term.

Learning plan profiles

Communication

For communication, I feel as though I have not quite yet met this goal yet. This is due in both of the Humanities projects we have done so far have struggled to communicate my ideas and thoughts in a group setting. I can try to fix this in the future by reassuring myself that my ideas are worth people listening to

Creative Thinking

I believe that I have fully met this curricular competence profile. This mostly show in the Ode to Apology project by how I my group and I represented the story of the Komagata Maru through pictures without words. Even though we had to explain what the photos meant, it still showed creativity and was a fun way to showcase our talents

Personal Awareness and Responsibility

In this competence, I feel as though I somewhat fulfilled my goal. This is due to using strategies such as coming to school early and setting timers for how long I would like to work. However, for the Ode to Apology project, I felt I procrastinated way too much and did not manage my time at all. This goes for another classes such as science in specific where I procrastinate on my work a bunch of times.

Collaborating

I feel as though I have not reached this competence this year. Originally I said that I was going to complete this competence due to how I believe I shared my ideas efficiently in the Ode to Apology project. However, I realized that was not true after I finish the Romeo and Juliet project.

Critical and Reflective Thinking

I feel as though I’m on the right path to completing this competence however, I don’t think I’m quite there just yet. I feel though, through project like the Ode to Apology and Gold Rush I was able to think more critically and reflectively. However, I don’t think I have yet to meet the standard for a profile five in this competence.

Positive Personal and Cultural Identity

At this point of my life I think I have met profile three for this competence. However, I think this is mostly due to my own self-reflection than PLP.

Social Awareness and Responsibility

I think that I have fulfilled this goal last year thus, I think I shall try to aim for a profile 4 instead of 3.

Humanities

Goal for this subject

Humanities was the only subject we had this year thus, it doesn’t represent the entirety of my growth for this year. For strength I put down I wanted to go in more detail in terms of whatever topic we’re studying in humanities. For growth, I want to have the confidence to communicate for myself. Lastly, for support I stated that I wanted to push myself to talk more and get less distracted.

Gold Rush

Gold Digger

For this project we were tasked to create a story about a person involved in the gold rush. I believe this project helped me to use my strength goals for this competence by going in-depth when I was going my research. Additionally, I have to say the research was my favourite part of this particular project. I believe however that this project showed how I need to seek more feedback from peers since I feel as though I didn’t ask for enough feedback due to the many grammar mistake made in my writing.

Ode to Apology & Exhibition

Ology to Apology & Winter Exhibition

For this project, we crated a monument about a dark history in Canada’s past. This experience helped me to grow in communicating and collaborating with other in group projects. However, I think I struggled a great deal with procrastination for this project. I shall try to improve on this in the future by trying to set times for myself for just working during the day. I believe this will boost my productivity.

Romeo and Juliet

In this project, this final goal was to create a recreation of one of the Romeo and Juliet scene. I believe that I did well on my strength by writing very detailed explanations on my thoughts on a scene in the book. However, when it came to the group work of this project, I did not do well at all. This is due to me not contributing anything to the discussion or being proactive.

Did I achieve my goals or not?

It is both a yes and no for this question in my opinion. I believe that I completely the strength part of my goal. However, I still need to improve on the growth aspect and my support system. I can improve my growth goal by writing down my idea or what I want to say before group discussion in order to have the courage in order to state those idea. I can improve my growth by setting more timers for myself and trying to set a work schedule for myself.