Portfolio Assesment (Report Card 2)

Process:  Résumé/Cover Letter

I put the Resume here because to me it is something that I can use for a very long time wherever and whenever I would like to work. Something I would like to notice is that this was something that can always be updated and something that I can take with me for the rest of my working career. Something I would do differently would be is to really look back from work and volunteer time that I have done in the past years instead of really focusing on the paid work and big main volunteer time that I've done. To create the resume was fairly easy, however there were so many steps to make it just right to make it perfect. There were many steps in getting the information and looking back on all the work that I have done in the past. Then I had to find my employers and get their phone number and put them into my resume. After that, I had to start putting everything together and getting it proof read by my brothers, peers and by my teacher. Finally after all those steps, it was perfect.

Improvement: Nutrition Blog

I highlighted the Nutrition Blog here because nutrition is something that can really affect you living health. It is something that you constantly have to be aware of and make sure that you don't eat to much of a bad food or to little of food. I would like to notice that usually I eat a lot more and a lot healthier than what is shown in the blog post, I do eat more fruits and vegetables and enjoy eating fruits. Something I would do differently would to add more of I actually eat on the weekends. I have learned that eating healthier and more of healthy foods in the morning can really affect who you are later in the day and also eating healthier gives you more energy than plain foods..I think my Nutrition Blog post could have used more improvement with more pictures of what I actually ate all the time, I missed a couple of times and pictures that I could have added later. I also could have added more words and more of a description for what the picture was containing.

Perseverance: Top 5 Careers

I highlighted the Top 5 Careers because at first I wanted to become a police officer all the time from when i was little. Then the time came when, what would happen if that didn't go through and I didn't know what else to do. I had to start looking for jobs that I would actually be interested in for many years of working at the same job. Something I would like to notice is that the careers I chose would be actually careers I would be truly interested in doing for a long period of time. Something I would do differently would be to give more of a selection of careers that I would be interested in. Something I can take away from this is the choices that are out there can I can achieve and do for a time period. The top 5 careers in my opinion seemed easy at first but then choosing the careers that I would actually be interested in and want to peruse was a little tough because there are so many different fields of work. Writing on what I would do in the near future was easy but looking in 20 years and what would be happening then was difficult to start writing about.

Risk Taking: YPi

I highlighted this because we had to get so much information and meet with our organization on a date that not all of us could attend. Something I would like to notice is that I think we did a good job on getting information on the people and the diversity around us. People think that all the homeless/unfortunate people live on East Side but there are many people who are facing troubles around the Surrey area. Something I would do differently would ask the organization more questions of how they deal with people who are in tough situations that even they can't fully help with, what do they do with those people. Something I can take away is that poverty is at every major city no matter where people are there will be people who are living on the streets and who are begging for money and on constantly starving.   For me, I think I was taking risks on the YPi project. We chose our first place but had to change because of the location so we had to chose another place mid way through the time. Gathering information was difficult to get so we had to ask people what they said and they were all a little different in numbers. It was hard but every pulled through and we completed a risky project.

Favorite:  Drug/Caffeine

I highlighted this project because I thought this was VERY educational along with all the other drugs people did. Something I would like to notice is that caffeine and drinks with caffeine are considered drugs; pops have drugs in them. Something I would have done differently would to understand more of why caffeine is considered a drug and what makes it a drug. Something to take away from this project is that  caffeine is in many drinks and is more popular than what people think. Caffeine is pretty much everywhere you go in North America.  My Favorite project was doing the project on the different kinds of drugs. I gave me a little insight on all the different legal/illegal drugs out there. Knowing what happens and what to look for is very educational in the present and future. Also researching of why caffeine is a drug was very interesting and helpful.

Something of Personal Significance: Field Trip

I liked the field trip because it was very educational knowing the rights that you have at the workplace. Knowing that you can deny to do something that you don't feel safe doing, is very great to know for when I get a job and know what I can and can't do at the workplace.

Burn It: STI Project

I didn't like the STI project at all. To me it was disgusting but VERY educational of symptoms. It was very interesting to learn about and know what happens with different STI's, but it was still nasty learning and reading about it.

Overall Grade:

Nutrition Blog

Health Goals:
I would like to stay the same weight. I would like to eat more often but eat more fruits and vegetables and get better nutrition. I care about this and want to eat more vegetables and fruit and less snacks.

How To Plan:
I will ask my parents to get more fruits and vegetables and will ask for fruits and vegetables.

Limits:
A limit that I might have is if both my parents and brothers are away and my parents leave me food to have for dinner. I might be out of fruits and vegetables so I might not be able to go out and buy healthier food.

Planning 10 Nutrition

Wednesday

Breakfast - 8:20 am
Toast with Nutella
Glass of juice

Granola bars - 3:00 pm

Tim Horton's chocolate chip muffin and small iced cappuccino - 4:05 pm

Dinner - 5:45 pm
potatoes, 2 slices of pork, veggie meat mix, slice of cheese, glass of juice

8:25 pm

Glass of water

Toast with Nutella

Thursday

Breakfast - 8:30 am

Toast with Nutella and glass of milk

Dinner - 5:30 pm

Slice of pork, asparagus, rice, slice of cheese, half of marble cake loaf

Portfolio Assesment

Self-Regulation: Component One
     During class I believe that I behave well and I can co-operate with people great as well. I attend every, and if I were to miss a class, I would make sure to keep up from any work that I missed on the day(s) that I missed. Whenever I come to class, I come prepared with all the work that I would have had completed the day before. If an assignment requires a partner or partners, I make sure to chose wisely, someone who will do work, who can co-operate, who can stay focused, on task and lastly, well behaved. When I work in class, I try to make the most of what I can do and use it to my advantage by asking questions or any concerns that I would have with an assignment or group project, I try to do as much as I can in the time that I have. Also, in group projects or assignments, I try to keep the conversation on task so we can keep working and try to get as much work done as we can we the group is all together at one place at one time. I try to complete assignments if they're assigned for a period of 4-5 days, I like to get that assignment done the day before hand so I can proof read it and check any mistakes or errors or something that I might want to add to take out. Whenever I am talking in a group, I keep my voice calm and I don't want to yell so everyone can here, I keep my voice at a good tone and not with anger, but so people can here what I have to say without them thinking that I'm trying to yell at them. Creating strategies for getting work done efficiently is key. What I like to do is either everyone in the group works on one thing and can get a lot of info and work done in a small time with great effort. Or, another one is where everyone takes 2 days and looks up different things on the topic so the group can get many things done at one time but in a longer time period. Sometimes, not everything goes as I would like or a mistake happens, but what I learn from that is, you have to make mistakes to learn, so I learn from what doesn't work well or what works great and build on that to make it even better and more successful. Along with that is taking risks. Risk taking is good because you can learn from what doesn't work, or you can learn what might be better than what you thought before and then build on from what you just took a risk on. It can also be risky from taking information from websites; one website might have something great, but another might have totally different information so you have to keep digging into what you want to know to find out what is actually true or fact. Another thing is having a balance from two points of view or else it could be very bias and subjective since you are only get information from one view. For Self-Regulation, I think I deserve a G in this category.

Quality Of Communication Skills: Component Two
     My skill set has changed a lot throughout the class of Planning 10. It has changed so much from what I am used to before. I'm used to typing everything out, but then printing everything, not putting it on a website. For every assignment, I have tried my hardest for practically every assignment. I type it because I want to get something out from what I write, I want to go home happy knowing that I knew I typed something useful to my life instead of another paper that I wont look at ever again. I want to write things out so I can look back and probably get information for the future. Also, I write with a purpose so I can use this in a grad transition or in a resume instead of joking around typing nothing, for no purpose to get it out of the way and finished with no effort. I also believe that I meet the criteria and complete all assignments for all different kinds of assignments and projects. I think that I deserve 80% in the Communication category because I do communicate with my peers around me and I help people out around me when they need help. For example the collage that I did, I asked for help for things that my peers liked that I might have liked, and also I gave help and ideas to other people if they didn't fully know what to get that they might have forgot about. I can work on communicating more with people who I don't usually talk to or people that aren't around me and sit near me.

Contributes To The Learning Environment: Component Three
     Contributing to the learning environment is something that I can defiantly improve on. What I contribute is that I help people around me and give them advice of what to do and how to do it and what to change. As far as taking in information from other, I do change that. I don't comment and post a lot on other peoples blogs or anything, but the people around me are the people who I help. I don't change a lot from the comments because I haven't seen anything, but there might be a few things that I could change to make things better and more understandable. I do help people out if they are having trouble with technology issues or if they are having trouble with trying to put something up or changing something. I think I should deserve 70% in this category of contributing to the learning workplace.

Student Learning: Component Four
     Whenever I am working, my most happy time to work is if I am in a group who all want to be a similar career as mine, who are interested in the same things as what I want to do in the future, or hands on work. I am the most engaged in an assignment when I know that it will change something about me and I can learn from it instead of it being another assignment that I will forget about and wont care about in a week. I'm also eager to learn when I know that a task will be useful to my life and I can take that away and use it in everyday life ex. wood working. I don't mind but I don't prefer working from just textbook work, I don't like to just get information from a textbook and trying to learn it. I need to learn it, then get hands on work, and then I can fully learn.

Overall Grade Percentage
     I feel that my overall grade percentage should be in the mid 80's because I have demonstrated the progress from the beginning from talking to my peers around me and not trying my best, to now being more focused on group projects and assignments and keeping talk to more of the topic of helping others and asking for help.

Employability Skills

Communication:
-Easy to talk to
-Friendly and welcoming
-For communicating with people I use text, phone, e-mail, Facebook, etc.

Problem Solving:
-I am good at solving problems from different point of views and think around of how to solve a problem from an equation, or if I needed an amount of a certain object or thing.

Team Work:
-I work well as a team and I seem to work better and faster when I am in a group. I enjoy working as a group because things can move a lot faster instead if you were alone.

Personal Responsibility:
-Sometimes I'm not responsible or organized with some things, but other times I can be on task and work very hard and do whatever I need to do well.

Results From Quiz:

Communicating
-I read and understand information presented in a variety of forms (e.g., words, graphs, charts, diagrams)
Thinking & Problem Solving
-I seek different points of view and evaluate them based on facts
-I am creative and innovative in exploring possible solutions.
Working with Others
-I understand and work within the dynamics of a group
-I ensure that a team's purpose and objectives are clear
-I recognize and respect people's diversity, individual differences and perspectives
Being Adaptable
-I learn from my mistakes and accept feedback

The results aren't to different from what I would have expected, but some of the results were a little off from what I would have thought.
I would be a great candidate to hire because I would work hard, know what I would be doing, I could problem solve from many points of view, and I can work well alone or well with another person or in a big group of people.

Interim Blog Post

Self-Regulation 

   I think my Self-Regulation is a G or S because I am always at class on time and I am always ready and prepared for class. Once I missed one assignment that I forgot to put on my Blog, but that same day I went home and put it on the Blog. I am always on task but might get distracted every now and then by talking to the people around me, but after that I get staight back to work and continuing to work. I enjoy this class and I try to help people out around me who are having trouble or difficulty with what everyone is supposed to be doing.

Top 5 Careers

Top 5

-Vancouver Police Officer
-Plumber
-Car Mechanic
-Electrician
-Home Inspector

Short Term and Long Term career goals
  I would like to get a post secondary education in law enforcement. I would also like to get a education in electrical work and also plumbing if the law and law enforcement field does not work out. The class that i would have to take for the Policing, would be Intro To Policing, Criminology, and Criminal Justice, those would be the main of a few courses that are key that are available at KPU in Surrey and Langely. A few other courses would be a first aid class and maybe some other classes like Philosophy. Grade 11 classes would be a socials or history class, that would be it for grade 12 mainly. What would help out a lot would to take the Law 12 class that is at Sullivan Heights here. Volunteering as a Citizen for the RCMP or VPD which they allow to help out at the police stations and departments would be a great thing to become a Police Officer because they could already see that you have volunteered your own time to policing and have dedication towards what you want to become in the future. I have started to save money for classes after High school and also I already have some work experience with a real job, and I also have volunteer time as well. Some challenges that I could face could be stress and also family and friend time could be taken away. I can and will fix that by using time wisely and not leaving things to the very last day to finish a project or assignment. The time for achieving my goals could take at least 5 years of schooling, maybe a little longer to get certified in a class that I would be taking. I will keep track of my success by writing it out or making a document and listing what I have done and what I will do to achieve what I want, I will achieve it one way or another.