Wow it has been quite a year hasn’t it… We have started at a new school, new friends, new classes and teachers and overall with PLP a completely new way of learning! Welcome to my tPOL which stands for Transitional Presentation Of Learning.
POL Learning Declaration (AKA PLP Cult Speech):
(Introductions) 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.
Let’s Get This Party Started!
I will be including in this presentation things that really transformed my learning completely unlike my mPOL I will be talking about how I have achieved my learning plan goal and my plans for next year.
Here is a link to my mPOL blog post!
Success Behaviours
I am going to be focusing on 3 success behaviours that I think I have done well and things I need to improve on in those areas.
1. In “Its The End Of The World As We Know It” I wanted to focus on Communication and Collaboration because in this project we did a lot of collaboration with our groups and that had to also include a lot of communication.
2. In Small But Mighty project I focused on my own Student Agency and managing myself and handing my own work in on time and getting it done and it being the best I could’ve possibly done!
3. While away in Bali I worked on my adventure book and I wanted to focus on my self regulation and what I mean by that is by balancing my work with my life. I struggle with this a lot so I really want to focus on getting better at this.
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It?!
For this being one of first projects in PLP this had a lot to do with how we learn now and what we do and don’t understand. Along with many of our other projects this project focused on that magical word “WORLDVIEW”.
Worldview:
As I have said before worldview is a way a group of people see the world. For example I may think (with a westernized worldview) that French fries are a really basic food. But someone on the other side of the world may think it was a specialty. So basically worldview is how an individual or group of people see the world whether it’s through clothes, tradition, foods and lifestyle!
Back To The End Of The World… 🤯
At the beginning of this project I still wasn’t sure I really knew what worldview was I started to try to think of it as literally as the name puts it World – view. I think the turning point for me when I really understood was we were given the lyrics to remake!
Lyrics 🎶 
After we finished the book the outsiders we got the assignment to craft song lyrics for a song on our worldview. But we couldn’t just write any old song you had to write the song with the same tune and lyrics to the song “It’s The End Of The End World As We Know It” you may have heard it before, your parents may have heard it before but all you need to know is that I kinda despise the song now. Whenever it comes on it just brings back nightmares or filming and creating. Once we had all finished our lyrics we were put in to groups, now these groups would have to perform the same music video so we cant all have different lyrics… SO WE HAD TO MAKE NEW ONES BY COLLABORATING WITH OUR GROUP!!! This part of the project really helped me work on my communication and collaboration with my peers. I was able to see the lyrics from there point of view and then make it into one song! The reason these lyrics helped me so much with understanding worldview is the fact that we had to make it OUR OWN we were encouraged to adjust it to the way we see the world and after seeing so many different music videos I could see how everyone’s worldview was so different!
Tiny But Mighty!
In this project we were learning about the different cells and bacteria’s! I feel like I showed a lot of my own student agency with this project because instead of working in groups we worked on our own. This meant we had to be in charge of completing our evidence ourselves and our ownership and responsibility over ourselves because we didn’t have a group to rely on! Continuing on with this project we also learned a lot about vaccines and anti-vaxxers! This was one of my favourite projects I have done so far because I loved how my teacher Ms. Kadi incorporated so many different ways to display our learning! There was stuff on our iPad stuff in person and it was all so interesting to see how it all fit into the same project!
We explored using Petri dishes and making a keynote field journal to drawing with our Apple Pencil to making eye catching media campaigns!
Petri Dishes
One Of My Drawing Characters
One Of My Advertisements
My Bali Field Study!
This was a project that my class did while they were away in Oregon! Even though I was away for the Oregon field study that didn’t keep me from still keeping up with the work they were doing and that work was… A ADVENTURE JOURNAL! I love creating journals, scrapbooks and anything else where I can make a collage! In this book I really tried to focus on the reflection part by reflecting back on my design principles and my adventure pledge.
Even though I absolutely loved this project I feel I needed to self regulate more and be able to balance my work with my vacation time. Some days I would be sitting on the side of the pool doing work instead of enjoying my vacation! Next year in grade 9 I will for sure focus on more balance between work and my life.
With this book I feel like I have shown that I understand design principles and how to follow them I feel like I have also showed that I am able to do work outside of the classroom and away from my peers which is a very big thing that I want to prove because not all learning and projects are going to be for school.
Spring Exhibition 🌷
During spring exhibition which just happened I was assigned into a random group to make an advertisement campaign! Although I had worked with some of the people in my group before I think we still found new ways to share our information and display it for our whole school to see! Something I found difficult in this project was collaboration and communication skills. We had to collaborate a lot in this project by agreeing on a style of advertisement we would all do and would be the overall theme for our campaign to just decoration and our props and costumes. Collaborating with my team started out difficult but as the project went on it became easier and we figured out that we all had the same goal (to get a good mark 😅).
Things I Have Shown A Great Understanding In 👍
I have shown a great understanding in science and maker (humanities can always have more understanding) How I feel I show I have a great understanding in these subjects are by the fact that in each individual project I have demonstrated my learning by doing the expected amount and sometimes even more! Even though I have been away a lot this year I think that I have done a good job of not falling behind and staying up to date.
What I Struggled With 🔄
Let’s ignore Ms. Willemse’s spelling mistake but, I really struggle with letting other peoples voices be heard when we are working in a group I always think that I am doing it the right way and I want it to be done the way I have it in my head. Now this doesn’t happen all the time it just usually happens when I don’t have someone to level me out. An unfortunate time this did happen is the Its The End Of The World project where my teamwork skills weren’t really on point, this is something I am working hard to get better and I can see it has been improving!
In my mPOL blog I talked about somethings I can do to help me improve here are some things I can countinue doing and some new things I started to do (especially because I was away)
Things I Can Continue Doing To Help Me Improve: ⚙️
– Going to tutorial when I have questions about something unclear to me
– Messaging my teacher personally (I did this a lot while I was away in Bali)
– Asking my friends to recap for me everything we did when I miss school
– Continue using the app Things because it keeps me organized and not stressed
– Challenging myself and going past the expected amount
My Learning Plan Goal 🥅
A learning plan is actually called “Statement Of Learning Intent” So this was my statement of learning intent also my goal that I wanted to achieve by the end of the year:
My goal still remains the same with that being, being able to receive feedback and input that feedback into my future projects with PLP or in life! How I feel I have completed this goal is by fully understanding the feedback given and actually knowing what they want me to do better before going back to my work and revising it. I have been doing this recently and I feel that the feedback given has been integrated into the end result.
What Will Grade 9 Look Like?
I am going to continue learning from my learning plan and reflecting on my mPOL and this tPOL. I will see my problems that I need to develop a strategy to fix and I reflect on what I already know such as I know that I have found a way to integrate feedback given to me by my peers and teachers and I can totally use that information next year!
Next year I will also have a new learning plan goal! I wonder what it will be? 🤔
How Have I Shown That I Have Grown From The Learner I Was At The Start Of The Year?
From the beginning I was a really clueless learner if I had seen myself now I wouldn’t believe it! I definitely have grown from that point. I also feel I have proven I want to learn more about the topic we are learning and I dont want to just do the bare minimum. I also think that when I was away in England and in Bali I missed some pretty big things my winter exhibition and my first PLP field study. I think when I was away for the first time I wasn’t really bothered about what was happening at school and I was just chilling 8 hours ahead. Now I have just come back from Bali and the entire time I was messaging Ms. McWilliam and my friends to tell me what was happening! The way I feel this shows me growing as a learner is me actually wanting to know more about what my class was learning about and before (England) I wasn’t really bothered.
Other than me growing as a learner I have definitely grown as a person. I am now (compared to me in September) more tech savvy, by this I mean I can actually use my IPad!!! I am able to use the apps and tools provided and I have even learned some fun tricks that make my learning easier! (Split View, slide over, etc) I also feel I have discovered more about the way I like to learn! I now know that PLP is my learning style! I love how you can be remote and learn and how we are provided with the internet (like how you would be in real life!) to research. This is so much different than the other way I used to learn which was paper and pencil and long lectures (there are still some of those) but PLP really has helped me discover more about me and how I love to learn!
Thank you so much for listening I really appreciated your time!
And that was my tPOL I hope you enjoyed reading! Stay posted for my next post! 👍