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

In September we made our Vision Mission Values form that we make for us to set goals, we make these at the beginning of every year because it helps us set an idea of what we want to achieve in the school year, these forms are important because they help me set myself up for projects in the year. I wrote about trying to improve my habits in the school year and holding myself accountable more often, this is something that I struggled with in grade 9 and 10 even though I do think I achieved my goals there are still many areas I can still improve on. Since I had been having issues with procrastination in the fall I began implementing new habits and in the beginning I stayed up with them and began to improve my work but soon enough I had fallen back into my old habits which started affecting my work. And slowly I began to start using these skills again and eventually they didn’t feel like habits anymore they just felt like instincts. 

One of the projects that I saw my skills being used firsthand was Mentor For a Day, near the end of the project I remember realizing at one point how much work I had due since I had procrastinated (which is something I’m still working on) after seeing my workload I knew I had to change it up a bit and begin to use my habits a bit more, and believe it or not these small changes really made a difference, doing stuff like work before play or keeping a calendar was a great way to keep myself in check. It began to be really easy to use these habits since they weren’t all that major and they didn’t really take any effort at all anymore. As much as I think I’ve improved there are still areas I would like to work on, something that I have struggled with in the past is Agency and considering how important this is for school it’s something I know I need to lock down and I do feel that I’ve improved my agency since September but I know that I have my work cut out for me in September.

Throughout the year I noticed that one of the habits that we learnt in the fall seemed to stay with me, the habit was to take pride in your own work, this seemed like a perfect guide for me since I have a habit of just handing in the bare minimum, it seemed like I was testing myself every time I handed something in and granted I may not have taken that standard for everything I’ve handed in I am still trying to imbed that sort of mindset into my daily life. Lots of my past projects revolved around videos and even though they aren’t my strong suit I always give it my all and try to make a video that I’d be proud of.

 

Considering how much of a step up next year is it really dawned on me that these are my last 2 years of high school and these are the years that really matter to universities which means that my grades for next year can have a direct impact on my future, using the skills I’ve learnt from PLP I know what direction I need to go in and what steps I need to take to survive next year. I think that the projects I’ve done with PLP have helped me improve my work ethic because of the nature in most of these projects. One of the projects that I felt I learnt the most in was Ology of an Apology, this project was based all around Canadian history and reconciliation through memorials, here’s a link to my reflection post of it:P. Since this project was based around a sensitive topic I thought that it’s intention was very important, in the project we went through many ways to properly apologize and learnt about Canadas dark past, even though these kinds of parts of history are really easy to skip because of the dark nature of them but it is very important to teach these kinds of things since even I hadn’t heard of some of these events before and considering how important they are I was shocked that I had not heard of them. I thought that the idea of this project was an important part of my year since it wasn’t just about what happened it was about what happened and how can we grow and improve from it. Taking the tragic aspects of these events  and turning them into memorials was a great way for us to properly learn about these event  and take each piece of the knowledge we researched and try to represent it somehow in our memorials. This project gave me a new perspective of how far Canada as a nation has come and how the reconciliation has progressed the country for the better.

Overall I believe I have demonstrated my learning and improved my skills since September and even though I still have some things to lock down I think I have demonstrated why I am ready to transition into grade 11. With that being said I am excited for what PLP has in store for me next year, thank you for listening.