So, the time has come for another Student Led Conference. This time, however, it’s going under the name “Transitional Presentation of Learning” or, abbreviated, TPoL (pronounced tee-pole).

The point of the TPoL is essentially for each of us to make a case for why we should get into grade ten, based on the work we’ve done this year, how we’ve improved, what we’re proud of, what we’ve learned, and how we could improve further.

So, a project that I’ve done fairly recently that I feel I did well on is my Things I Carry With Me keynote and presentation. For this assignment I had to learn how to utilize Keynote, which I haven’t used in several years, and have never really used for anything school-related. While doing this style of presentation isn’t something I commonly do, I really enjoyed it, and I found it helpful that while I was learning how to use Keynote, I was doing an assignment about something I already knew a lot about: myself. I wish I had been able to wrap up the presentation a little better, but all in all I felt I did a good job.

However, I haven’t necessarily done well on everything I’ve done this year. I’ve learned and grown since the start of the year. During my last SLC I mentioned two goals that I’ve been working on throughout the year: being able to talk to people as sources of information for projects, and believing in myself more and trying to actually do the things that I’d usually avoid. Over the year, I’ve made progress on both of these goals. My Blue Sky project required me to ask some tween neighbours of mine for feedback with a game, which is something I would have found very difficult in the past, but have gotten better at this year. In terms of my other goal, I can take an example from the same project: while Blue Sky last year was a very stressful experience, this year I was able to get the project done almost a week before it was due, because I’ve been working on procrastinating less, an issue I’ve been meaning to work on for a while,  but am finally taking the initiative to do.

There are still things I have to work on in the future, however. For instance, I think my time management could use some work. With better time management comes the ability to better maximise the amount of effort put into each assignment or project, which is something I’d really like to get better at. I’d also like to get better at working from a textbook, which is something I find really difficult, as I don’t find it an effective way to take in information. My goal for the coming school year is to find a way to make textbook work effective.

Toodles!