My brain is a maze and school is just one of the many paths going through.
Thank you for helping make my brain more a-MAZE-ing!
Personal Connections and Adult World Connections:
You as a Student and a Learner (Your Work and Your Work Habits):
4. If you could go back and refine one piece of work this year, what piece of work would you refine and how would you refine it?
I would say that I tend to have a tough time working in class, that I am easily distracted but I do put effort into a lot of my work and can usually come up with a good final piece in the end.
6. What might you want next year’s teacher to know about your work habits?
That I am easily distracted.
7. What is the most difficult thing you have done this year? Why was it difficult, and how did you deal with that difficulty?
For the socialization essay I had to write about myself which I find a very difficult thing to do.
8. How has group collaboration helped you as a student?
I gain good ideas for projects from talking with other people.
Reflecting on Yourself and Our Model of Education (Project Based Learning and our Student Culture)
2. How have any of the habits of heart and mind helped you be successful as a student or person?
Advocacy has helped me a lot this year--because I used to be really shy but now I am not afraid to ask for help from a teacher or peer.
3. How has a relationship with a faculty member helped you be more successful in school this year?
My relationship with Brian, my adviser, has helped me a lot in his class--because I didn't really connect to any of the projects and just being to talk with him and find something I could get into.
4. How has the work in Advisory helped you grow or change as a student, as a friend, and as a citizen?
Being in an advisory has helped me grow as a friend--because I didn't really know some people in my advisory so the time spent together allowed me to get to know them better.
5. Project based learning is a different model than traditional models of education. Explain how Project based learning has influenced your learning and your production of work?
I would most definitely say that I am a hands on learner that has a tough time just memorizing textbook facts. Being able to: make a mask, try to break glass, or make a mix tape has allowed me to put more of me into school and the projects while still learning what I need to.
- Which project did you have the most personal connection with this year? Why? The socialization project--because of how much I had to reflect on my past.
- What have you learned (skill, lesson, or knowledge) this year that will be most helpful for you in the future.
The essays that I wrote in Humanities--because of the topics; myself and happiness. - What project or projects have you done this year that have inspired you to want to learn more? Explain how you were inspired. The socialization and happiness essays--because it gives a deeper perspective to people.
- How has your attitude toward learning changed this year?
- How has your attitude toward learning changed this year?
- What connections have you made this year between what you have learned in your classes and your own personal experiences outside of school?
- How have your learning and experiences at AHS this year changed the way you see the world?
- What work from this year would you like to look back on and remember when you are a graduating senior?
You as a Student and a Learner (Your Work and Your Work Habits):
- What is the most important change that you have made as a learner this year? I have learned to take on challenges--whether that be difficult work or me just not connecting with a project.
- How have you taken an active role in your education this year. I have definitely advocated for myself--if I need help with work or coming up with an idea.
- What piece of work that you've done this year are you most proud of? Why?
4. If you could go back and refine one piece of work this year, what piece of work would you refine and how would you refine it?
- I would go back and refine my wave project--because it was inconclusive.
I would say that I tend to have a tough time working in class, that I am easily distracted but I do put effort into a lot of my work and can usually come up with a good final piece in the end.
6. What might you want next year’s teacher to know about your work habits?
That I am easily distracted.
7. What is the most difficult thing you have done this year? Why was it difficult, and how did you deal with that difficulty?
For the socialization essay I had to write about myself which I find a very difficult thing to do.
8. How has group collaboration helped you as a student?
I gain good ideas for projects from talking with other people.
Reflecting on Yourself and Our Model of Education (Project Based Learning and our Student Culture)
- What would you say to an incoming 9th grader about how to succeed in project based learning?
2. How have any of the habits of heart and mind helped you be successful as a student or person?
Advocacy has helped me a lot this year--because I used to be really shy but now I am not afraid to ask for help from a teacher or peer.
3. How has a relationship with a faculty member helped you be more successful in school this year?
My relationship with Brian, my adviser, has helped me a lot in his class--because I didn't really connect to any of the projects and just being to talk with him and find something I could get into.
4. How has the work in Advisory helped you grow or change as a student, as a friend, and as a citizen?
Being in an advisory has helped me grow as a friend--because I didn't really know some people in my advisory so the time spent together allowed me to get to know them better.
5. Project based learning is a different model than traditional models of education. Explain how Project based learning has influenced your learning and your production of work?
I would most definitely say that I am a hands on learner that has a tough time just memorizing textbook facts. Being able to: make a mask, try to break glass, or make a mix tape has allowed me to put more of me into school and the projects while still learning what I need to.