Here’s another blog post thanks for coming

this blog post is a TPOL post if you don’t remember what that is its a transitional presentation of learning where the driving question is about if I’m ready to go to grade 10 and i think i am but here is some more words to prove it and to talk about the year so far.

During the second semester, I decided that I would really try to change and improve how hard I worked and how dedicated I was to my school work. So, as a first step, I started going to tutorial time if I had any work that I needed to do. I worked on getting my tasks done during class and ignore more distractions than I had before. But there is one area where I really struggled – doing work outside of school. It’s hard because I started to have things to do after school and I also would easily get distracted at home. I decided to start to look for a quiet space at home where I could concentrate better. I also started to figure out different ways to avoid distractions. I wanted to try new strategies, like managing my time better and using apps to stay focused. My favourite strategy is using the clock app and setting timers to help moderate my work and attention and using alarms to remind myself to do homework.

Currently, as I’m writing this blog post, I realize that I’ve only managed to make two blog posts throughout the entire year. This is quite impressive, but it’s also a big reminder that I’ve been falling behind as a learner. However, I really want to change that. I’m focused on completing all the very late work to prove to everyone that I’m ready for grade 10. This blog post is the most important for me right now. It’s my main priority, so I want to finish it before working on my other posts. I believe that by doing all that, I can show others that I’m prepared to face the challenges that grade 10 will bring and that I’m fully capable of overcoming them.

I looked back at the beginning of the school year, I can really see how much I’ve grown and improved. To prove that I’m ready for grade 10, just take a look at my grades. They were terrible at first, but now they’ve gotten better. A big reason for this change was my MPOL. It made me think about my work and how to do better. Before the MPOL, I definitely wasn’t a good student because I was behind and gave poor work. then I decided to buckle down and put in the effort to get good grades.

Out of all my classes, humanities is where I feel like I’ve made the most progress. As I already said, I used to be a bad student. But I worked on myself and I found some strategies to help me improve I think I really picked myself up. I started using different study techniques and had a positive attitude. I re-read my learning plan to keep myself on track. Now, I could say that I’ve made big improvements in humanities and all my other classes.

It’s hard for me to talk about the other classes because humanities has been my only PLP class this semester so I only have some foggy memories about science, maker and PGP. That’s why I wanted to dedicate a big part to humanities because I’ve grown the most in it but I can say that in all those classes I was an ok – bad student but if I had the chance to do them all again I would be a good student who does all their work. I mean I had fun in all those classes but I had a big problem with procrastination so I had a lot of work that was late.

To answer the driving question directly, “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?”. I feel that I can openly face any challenge that comes at me and use all the skills that I have learned over the year to do, work, ask questions, talk about difficult subjects and have ethically conscious discussions. Some skills that I’ve learned to be more specific are, that I’ve learned strategies and got out of a habit of procrastination, I learned how to ask good and thought-provoking questions and set goals in maker, I’ve learned how to show all sides of the story and consider them in the winter exhibition. And I learned how to think and talk using the information the had at the time in humanities. I have many more skills that I didn’t have in grade 8 and in grade 9. I mentally am ready for the challenges of grade 10 and I truly think I can handle everything that happens next year.

I want to talk about my statement of learning intent because as you can read and have read I would say that I didn’t follow it for most of the year but over these last few weeks I think I have achieved it and if I was to put the same thing for next year I think I could follow it well.

I want to show that I followed the goals that I set for myself so here are the competencies that I set for myself for this year I think the best evidence that I did all these things is the project I did for the spring exhibition this year where I made a world war 1 howitzer that shot targets

This project shows my communicating rating because I felt comfortable and proud while presenting it and didn’t feel that anyone was confused when using it. It shows my collaboration because even though I made the cannon by myself the actual exhibit was a group effort that I think turned out really well and that I help build I also helped give feedback to my other group member’s work. It shows my creative thinking because I came up with the idea and most of the solutions which I think shows lots of creativity and thinking skills. My critical and reflective thinking skills are shown by all the problems I needed to solve for example I originally had it using a big fan that was hidden in the barrel but it wasn’t working so instead of giving up I put a hair dryer and made a plan for it to work. My personal awareness and responsibility is shown by me knowing my skills for the exhibition and making something that would be fun for me and that I have the skills to do an above-average job. My personal and cultural identity is shown by me choosing to make a howitzer because that is what my family did in the war and I wanted to do something that would tie me to my family’s history in a sense. My social awareness and responsibility is shown by the fact that I helped others when I can I tried to recycle everything that I could and I tried to reuse anything I could to not harm the environment. I try to do work to this standard most of the time but I thought this would be a good example because there is a chance that the person reading this went and saw the work that I did and so it would be easier to understand without my going into great detail as to not spoil the blog post for this project.

Thanks for reading this i hope you have a good one.

Howdy and welcome back to my blog guess what I’m doing again, an MPOL or otherwise known as a mid-year presentation of learning where ill talk about my growth as a learner and more

At the start of the school year, I wasn’t sure if the school I was at for the past year of high school was the right school for me. I treated everything I did with the idea that I wasn’t going to keep going to that school which affected my learning and the way I treated people. And then at the start of this school year, I went to a different school that had lots of my friends. to make sure if I wanted to go to school at the previous one or the one with most of my friends. I really wanted to see which school would be best for me and if the pros outweighed the cons of each school. For me, the pros of each school were quite different where one of the schools had lots of my close friends but the learning I would be doing there wouldn’t be as effective as the previous high school. So it was important to see which aspect I valued more friends or education. In the end, I decided to go back to the school where I could learn more and have a better chance at an effective future and if I wanted to I still can hang out with my friends outside of school. The choice I made was obviously an important decision because I wanted to decide where I would go for the rest of high school and what I wanted to prioritize but I feel like I put a good amount of thinking behind my decision and am confident in my choice. Because now I can treat everything like ill be there for a long time and be less distant but most importantly I can have a better education and enjoy the learning I do.

Learning plan

Here Is the learning plan I made earlier in the year where I plan what my learning is going to look like and set goals with plans to achieve them. Feel free to read them

I’ll quickly explain what this is. The statement of learning intent means in simpler terms that I want to aim for an A and how I will do it. The section below pretty much shows what and who I want to be in a kind of level format with the higher numbers being more effective at the main task
Unfortunately, I think for this first half of the year I kind of missed my mark a little bit and struggled to hang things in on time because I wasn’t organized enough and wasn’t using all the strategies I put in place for myself but I am really going to try to get the level of work that I think I can produce and I will use any strategy I can to do it

Humanities

I want to talk about a project I really think I struggled with which would be my humanities project called the power of geography here’s the link to the blog post about it https://www.blog44.ca/dylanw/2022/11/11/we-went-to-alberta/
But I think that it was a real struggle keeping up with all the work I had because kept piling work until I had almost everything late and a book I had to write that needed all those projects done. A big part of lots of the things being late was that guy wasn’t at school for the start of it and I wasn’t paying attention to what was happening while I was away which really didn’t help and then to be able to finish I ended up having to spend almost all my time working on the projects just because I let them pile up which was really a bad idea and all my fault, but because of that happening, I have a better idea of how to deal with it in the future.

Maker

For maker, I wanted to ask myself what goals did I have to change as I worked on a project and instantly a project came to mind called first film, which was also my winter exhibition project where we studied. The movie avatar chose important themes from the film and made short documentaries on our provided themes. The theme I was given was racism and I had to find someone to interview for my documentary. It was very hard trying to find someone that I thought was a good fit for my documentary. The way I changed my goal while working on the project was that my original goal was to have someone very high up be interviewed for my documentary, but as the due date became closer, I had to change my goal into something that would still be helpful and makes sense for my documentary. So after going through multiple people, I eventually ended up with someone I thought would be a perfect fit, but still far off from my original plan. which was very good because I learned how to be more flexible as a learner.

Science

Grade 9 was the first year where science was not also part of math, so I got to learn just science. But anyways I wanted to talk about my project handle with care where we talk about life and animals and how they behave I think I used a large variety of Skills for this project, but I also liked quite a large variety of skills. The ones I used were mostly technology-based and how I efficiently and properly made the work. but unfortunately, the skills that I liked made most of my work invalid and didn’t get graded because I lacked proper time management with every project being late and often written down as incomplete even though I eventually finished it.

Disposition and habits

Obviously, some of the spelling is wrong, but even more importantly, to be completely honest, I totally failed with this section of my learning plan, I almost completely forgot that I wrote it which really isn’t great because these are the things that I need to work on the most so this is something that is going to be taking up most of the rest of my year in the program I, even if I don’t need to I’m going to use Things, reminders and calendar to help me stay organized for the rest of the year just to get in the habit of using it.

Thank you for reading the blog post goodbye

– Dylan

Hi, welcome to my blog this time I’m doing one on something that I’ve done almost before. A tpol! A tpol is a transitional presentation of learning. So I will be talking about my growth as a learner for the most part. And projects I think I did good on or badly on and more and how they affected my growth as a learner.

so at the start of the year when I started PLP 8 I was definitely still like I was before I would never raise my hand and always zone out. but during the mpol presentation, I did earlier in the year I set goals for myself to do for example I wanted to raise my hand in class more often even if nobody had theirs up and to pay more attention in class and catch myself when my mind would wander. when I actually did the things I wanted to do it felt pretty good because I would be showing My growth every time I did it.

During some projects, I had more growth than others or had a challenge that let me grow more in the future. 

One of the first projects I want to cover is one that I found fun and I grew a lot while doing it is DI aka destination imagination because it was hard at some parts and fun at others One of the reasons I feel like I really grew and doing destination imagination is because of the teamwork skills I had to use leadership skills as while A better example of how I grew During DI was The quality of work from the start to the end for example if you looked at the first instant challenge my group did as a team and then looked at the last one you would see a very clear difference in skill level I also grew in responsibility because I tried to write a lot of our script even though I did not need to end it was not my job but still worked out when I did. In short, I really think that the atmosphere of DI let me grow and change as a Lerner.

A project that is similar to this but a bit different and very clear in growth is the exhibition projects because one has happened recently and I can clearly see the difference in girls from the first to the second in the first one I was really panicky and didn’t understand what to be doing but is the second exhibition I really understood how to position myself and how to speak to my audience and I wrote The script going to my audience in a more natural way did the first one also the environment from the first one to the second one was huge in a good because, in my opinion, it was quite better because we transformed the room using everybody’s idea Also during this project I got to show some more of my skills by making a stick bow.

One of the most memorable projects I worked on was the scimatics Project because I struggled a lot with it the project was called The ultimate design challenge where we had to do the math to figure out the area and volume of an object that we bed during this project I had lots of struggles because I couldn’t figure out how to do the math and if I learned it just left my brain. I did really bad on this project because I didn’t understand it and couldn’t hand in the work on time because I wanted to do a good job and hand in work that I was proud of. Because the final product as well was very difficult calculating shapes I had no clue how to calculate but I kept trying to do the math and never worked when I tried again it was always a different number so I really struggled with this project in short But by doing so I got used to not always doing work I was proud of and just sometimes understanding that work needs to be done

 But the work I am least proud of would probably be working with words where we make poems and works of literature. I didn’t think I did a good job because first off I was sick and had a hard time catching up and second of all I didn’t really have a good track record of poems so I had a few poems that I think are good even though they all met the criteria and at the end of this project we made a book and I felt like I may be rushed it but I didn’t necessarily like it so if I had a chance to do something like it again I would think I could show a lot better work than before

for the last project, I think I’m going to talk about a project where there is a clear line of growth and that would be one of my first projects the medium is the message because in this project where we had to make ads for companies out in Deep Cove there is a very clear line of how I grew as a learner by using and learning a whole bunch of skills to improve our images to the final level I’ll show you some of my images       

Second                                                                           First

Third                                                                             Fourth

During this project at the start of the year, I didn’t know much about POP but it was something I wanted to try so I decided to give it all I could during this project there were definitely a few troubles whether it would-be teammates, myself, and many different things But we ended with dad I think most of the people in the group are happy with

Here I’m gonna be heading away from some of the projects and be talking about a habit that I want to try and get for the next year because I did not utilize the skill during my year. I didn’t really decide to use organizing apps I’m not really sure why it just never seemed nice in my head to do so I never did use them but I think now I will try and use them to help myself Stay on top of my work When does the reason I wanna try to do this because I kept seeing that students that I thought were successful were using it so I think it will be a good skill to use next year

For next year I think I’m quite ready to try and use all the skills that I’ve learned and continue growing throughout grade 9 even if it’s harder than grade 8 I think I’m ready to deal with those problems

thanks for reading and goodbye 

• Dylan