In the beginning of this course I wanted to be successful and have a strong sense of what I wanted to accomplish in the future. I also wanted to learn a lot about what my options were for when I got older and how I would approach them. As for being a student, I just wanted to do well and learn as much as I could about life in general. I feel like I showed success in many different areas such as being more independent and learning how to speak to peers and to present without feeling nervous. I also felt successful by learning just by listening to presentations and hearing about different jobs as well as some things that can actually help me in life such as learning about drugs or jobs like being a pilot instructor. All of these are my growths in this class, they were also all the areas I wanted to develop in so all in all, it was my success too. Some skills I developed as a student in this class is presenting, being more independent when meeting and talking to others such as the YPI project forced me to get out of my comfort zone and interview someone. I also feel like my skills in writing a resume and cover letter improved and I was able to write one that looked and sounded much better.
Overall, these six pieces/activities were ones that stood out to me the most and what I thought were either the most important and helped me or completely the opposite.
Process: One assignment that took a while to do but resulted in me being successful was the resumes and cover letters we wrote. Although I had already had a resume and cover letter from before, checking it with peers really helped me improve on them and add a lot more or take out things that were useless and this resulted in a better resume and cover letter.
Improvement: One assignment I think I improved a lot more on was basically commenting on other peoples assignments to help them or ask them questions. This started happening a lot more on our drug and aids projects when I had a lot more free time after and would comment on other peoples projects with Danilyn and Jessica. In the beginning of the semester I would not really comment on others pages, and when I did it was not something that I could learn from or help my peer but something more like: "Good job!" If I could do this again, I would start commenting a lot in the beginning of the year and learned earlier rather than later in the year.
Risk Taking: One assignment that I thought was a risk taker was doing our personal pages in the beginning of the year. I thought this was risky because I did not know everyone well at the beginning of the year and I did not want to put something on my personal page that someone would maybe look twice at. I also thought someone would judge me based on what I put on my collage. Although we did not really go back to the personal pages, i think it really helped me in knowing who I was and what I like. It also taught me what kind of person I am and what I can do to make myself happier in the future.
Favourite: My favourite piece was when we had to do the YPI project. Although my group and I did not win, I feel like I did win in some sort of way because of how much I learned and had fun doing. I thought it was a great way to involve students to the actual community instead of just learning on paper. This project taught me about kids in general, the way communities work, how independent I actually am and what I can do to make a difference. Something I would like other people to notice about this project is how helpful it really is for not only students but the actual organization itself. If I had to do this project again, I would like to be a lot more prepared for it.
Something of Personal Significance: Over the semester, I found that a lot of the presentations were personally significant to me in a way. I feel like it was significant to me because a lot of the people that came in were people that I meet or see outside of school and when I saw them teaching me more about their job, it seemed like their life was more interesting and something that I could look more closely at and reflect more upon. I also feel like it was significant because it really opened up my mind and gave me more job opportunities to look at. Something I would like people to notice about these presentations is that students actually really benefit from it and learn more about life from others experience rather than just being taught something. If I were to listen to all the presentations again, I would most likely ask more questions and get more information.
Burn It: One assignment I would burn during this year would be all the quizzes we did at the beginning of the year. I personally thought it was useless and did not help me at all but rather just wasted my time. I already knew what I wanted to do and all the quizzes were just giving me completely different results.
Overall, I feel like I deserve a G because of how much I learned ion this class and what I have done to understand more about how these assignments and projects can help me. I also realized how they have already helped me! For example, from a lot of the presentations I have learned so much about every day life. All in all, I feel like I deserve between a 88 and 90%.
