“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.”

I just wanted to say I’ve learned a lot throughout the year.

Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?

If I’m being honest, I don’t feel like I’m ready to move onto the next grade level because life is moving a bit fast. In 3 years I’m going to be in grade 12 and that is a bit hard to believe and it’s also scary. Let’s look back onto my vision, mission and values.

VMV

Vision

If you don’t know what the “vision” is, it’s “the ideal future state that describes you on graduation day”. My vision just talks about me looking back onto the earlier grades and spending my money on applying for university’s, yada yada. But the thing is, on my graduation day; I just want to be smiling.

Mission

Mission is “your purpose for this school year that aligns actions with your vision”. I wrote: This school year, I really hope that I improve at everything. Focusing in class, better grades, getting better at soccer. The 2 biggest things that tower over those things are my organization and time management. I won’t get anywhere in life if I’m not organized, have good grades and can manage my time better.

I guess some things never change because I’m still improving at all of that.

Values

My values are “the success behaviours you will use to achieve your mission”.

Conduct, ethics and integrity. I write about being more foucused on the task at hand and staying focused. I think I’ve been pretty good at that.

Preparation. I need to have my Apple Pencil with me (I’ve been doing that), I come to the morning classes at least 5 minutes early. I’ve actually been really good at that. Especially compared to last year. I also talk about handing in my assignments on time or in class. I would say I’ve also gotten better at that. Probably because if I hand in an assignment late, my phone is gone for a week.

Engagement. It basically talks about working actively in class. But then it also talks about keeping focused on the person talking, and keeping my thoughts relevant to what is around me because sometimes I get trailed off and end up searching what made Marilyn Monroe famous.

Humanities

During the year, humanities has been pretty interesting. Probably my 2nd favourite class. Or 3rd. Our most recent project has been making a comic based on ww1.  It was really stressful because the timing was really weird. I wish we did this in like February. But it’s ok cuz this is the last Thursday of grade 9.

Maker

The main focus in maker this year was video making. We also read a book called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. There are 7 habits. We had to make a video with 3 of them every week. We were put into groups. These 2 are my favourite:

Thank you for listening!