INQUIRY, CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING
Claim: This year I have shown improvement in this L21 Skill.
I have worked really hard this year to gain this improvement by trying harder in Algebra I (since one of the main skills in Algebra I is problem solving) by taking notes in class, doing assigned work, and trying to extend current knowledge by doing extra work. I manage my time wisely in class, ask questions, discussed with other students and reviewed work at home. I know that I still have lots of room to improve, including the fact that I should challenge myself more, and I will continue to try harder the following trimester.
From a few of my math summative tests, I hope you can see I got “Extending Beyond” for the “Problem Solving” strand and deduce that I improved.
Claim: I will work harder to challenge myself next year in “Problem Solving”.
Even though, I improved in Problem Solving, but I know I can still try to challenge myself by doing the occasional challenges Mr. Craig provides us in class. I hope this will help me gain more deeper knowledge in the math field.
There isn’t much evidence for this issue, but my one single evidence is to show how I did not challenge myself during a math test. I will take action in the future by constantly trying to challenge myself in math, so I can make improvements beyond the standards. I know that this goal will also require self-discipline, so I will also try to be that as well during the process.
L21 SKILL: INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
Claim: I am proud of my learning and work in “Innovation and Creativity”.
One of my enrichments included “Yearbook Design” which consisted of the main activity of designing yearbook pages. When I just started the enrichment, I was a complete novice in designing pages in Adobe InDesign, but now I have improved much, and know how to insert photos, change appearances of “words”, use Photoshop to enhance the yearbook photos, and how to be creative with the pages. I have never done anything like page-designing, and the past trimesters have assisted me a lot in “creativity”. Of course, some of the challenges I still face include meeting deadlines, finishing pages in time, but this has still helped me in gaining more experience in what it is like to work in the “art industry.”
EXAMPLE: Visual Arts copy.
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Claim: I have continued to try my best in “Innovation and Creativity” this year.
One example is one of my humanities blog post. We are required to do one multi-media post each month. Sometimes, it takes a lot of time to consider what type of multi-media fits best with the book’s theme, characters, rising-action, or climax and other literary concepts for the book. Some types of multi-medias you could do include: GIFs, poems, posters, drawings etc. Sometimes I struggle with this, because I forget to explain in my blogs why this multi-media fits with my book. We usually are provided with a graphic-organizer to help us with us, and recently I have found this useful for me to write my monthly blogs. I will display some multi-media I have made throughout the trimesters passed.
The one on the left is a poster I made for a book called Fangirl. The one on the right is for The Catcher in the Rye.
L21 SKILL: COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION
Claim: I have improved in Communication & Collaboration this year.
Indicators of this improvement include my NIH project. We commenced this project in the first trimester of the school year, and the acronym stands for the National Institute of Health. We did model presentations and pretended to be genetic scientists and tried to persuade better health for the people to the judges using evidence we garnered. For my NIH project, I focused on “Autism”, and collaborated with Joyce Sun (who did “Schizophrenia”) and we presented our findings and reasonings to judges (such as parents, old students, and even a few specialists).
I will show you my presentation now.
When we present our presentations to our judges, our scores depend on how accurate our information is and how persuasive we are which also massively relies on really how confident, charismatic we are when we present in front of our classmates and judges and how well we can respond to the questions afterwards.
I had received a “full grant” afterwards and one of my comments was that “I was confident and very persuasive”.
Claim: I have worked hard to improve this L21 Skill.
For Chinese class, a few trimesters ago, I finished a Chinese video after collaborating with Susan Sun, Jennifer Zhang. This informative video introduces the culture of the Chinese tribe “Dai Zu”. We took a lot of time to try to finish this video, while also researching and doing most parts of it out of school.
This was a challenge because we had to communicate with each other from really far distances to finish each clip.
