Alan's Portfolio

Organization

The ability to keep track of and make good use of possessions, money, and time.

Goal:I regularly take time to organize my possessions and myself so that I do not have to rush around at the last minute.

Stress Resilience

The ability to deal positively with the adversities of life.

Goal:I am satisfied with the way I handle stress, handling it in healthy ways rather than engaging in self-destructive habits to cope.

Healthy Relationships

The ability to create and maintain healthy, life-giving connections with others.

Goal:I am able to resolve conflict in a productive way with family and friends. We are able to talk through conflict so that it does not continue.

Rest and Play

The ability to balance work and play and to renew one’s self.

Goal:I am confident that the amount of time I spend connected to technology such as video games, TV, computer, Facebook, and cell phone is good for my overall well-being.

Handling Emotions

The ability to express and receive emotions in a healthy way.

Goal:I am able to communicate my emotions in a positive way without being irritable, critical, or angry.

Spirituality

The development of a strong personal value system and a meaningful purpose in life.

Goal:I forgive others and I forgive myself.

School and Work

The ability to get the most out of educational, volunteer, and employment opportunities.

Goal:I am satisfied with the way I pay attention, participate, and prepare homework for my classes, extracurriculars, volunteer work, or job.

Care for the Body

The ability to build healthy habits and practices regarding your physical well being.

Goal:I go to the doctor and dentist for regular checkups and talk to someone about a problem as soon it arises.

At the start of the unit, I used to think that you could only get mental health issues if your stressed or have to much pressure on yourself. I though that if you have mental health issues, you would only be kind of sad and have to much pressure on yourself. In addition, I also thought that mental health issues are easily treatable and it only affects old people.

Now, I know that mental health issues can be caused by a variety of different ways such as childhood trauma, family genetics and the environment that you ground up in. In addition, I also learn about the different types of mental health issues such as PTSD, depression, eating disorder, bipolar disorder. This shows that mental health has different conditions and each of these different ones would have a different affect the person that is experiencing it. In addition, social media and other video platforms can stigmatizes the mental health conditions by spreading bad information, wrong treatment method and misinformation. Lastly, for our group project, we researched about a mental health condition called PTSD and it can be caused by childhood trauma and other violent experience. After the research, we had to showcase our learning by presenting it. Overall, in this unit, we learnt and understand the different types of mental health and how we can support someone who is struggling with mental health.

Three Strength

1) Skillful Communicator

2) Creative Learner

3)Effective Collaborator 

Three Improvement

1. My Organization Skills
2. My Time Management
3. Critical Thinking

S:Specific

M:Measurable

A:Achievable

R:Realistic

T:Time-Bound

Smart Goal 1 (Academic)

Specific-Improve my organization skills to be more effective at completing task

Measurable-I would track and record all of my task

Achievable-It can be completed before the end of the year

Realistic–It is relevant to my academics as it could make me organized in my school work

Time-Bound-Achieve by end of this semester and make daily progress check

Steps to Get There:

1. Use a planner
2. Track your work and track your work completion
3. Track progress daily

Full Goal Name: I want to improve my organization skills to make sure I would be more productive in finishing my work

Smart Goal 2(Academic)

Specific-Stop Procrastination and finish your work beforehand

Measurable-I would use a planner to make sure that I would finish things before the due dates

Achievable- I can complete this before the end of the year

Realistic–It is relevant to my academics as it could make make me less stressed out about school work

Time-Bound-Achieve by end of this semester and make daily progress check

Steps to Get There:

1. Use a planner
2. Track the due dates and work on it
3. Track progress daily

Full Goal Name: I want to decrease the amount of procrastination by tracking all of my due dates

Smart Goal 3: (Non-Academic: Social, Athletic, Personal, etc.)

Specific- Decrease the amount of goals that you would concede each match

Measurable-Track the amount of goal conceded each game

Achievable-I can complete this at the end of the season

Realistic–It is relevant to me and the less goal we concede, the more chance of us winning

Time-Bound- Achieve by end the season

Steps to Get There:

1. Check the goal conceded each match
2. Reflect and process what went wrong
3. Make a effect to fix it

Full Goals Name: I want to decrease the amount of goals conceded each match to increase the chances of us winning

Goals

1.I want to improve my organization skills to make sure I would be more productive in finishing my work

2.: I want to decrease the amount of procrastination by tracking all of my due dates

3. I want to decrease the amount of goals conceded each match to increase the chances of us winning

My goal in this semester is to improve my critical thinking in class. I want to improve on this skill because it would allow me to think in a way unique way and it would also allow me to see and view the solution and the problem in a different way. In addition, having better critical thinking skills would allow me to  to form a judgment or decide if something is right or wrong and to  make connections between logical ideas to see the bigger picture. I sometimes struggle with this in class and I wouldn’t be able to make the connection between ideas an connect them to see the bigger picture. To improve this skill,I would try and make more connection between smaller pictures and try to see them in a wider view

Before( Start of Semester 1)

After (End of Semester 1)

During the badminton unit, l learned how to become a more effective collaborator with my teammates. We learnt the basic of serving, receiving and how to play doubles. As l have experience with the sport, playing it with some of my friends who don’t play it feels quite difficult as you have to rely on each other’s skills. The results in the more we played the sport, the more l realized the importance of having effective partnership whether it is in standing position or the type of shots you hit. l learned that with smart collaboration, it can lead to better results in our team

My strengths in orchestra are prepared for class and practicing effectively. I always have my instrument for class bringing a pen or pencil. I’m also able to , identifying notes properly and playing notes

The areas for growth for orchestra are playing my dynamic better and practicing effectively. Although I can play my notes well, I still need practice my dynamics better for class, Additionally, I don’t have a practice strategy so I that method I’m going to use is to practice more at home.

What progress have you made in this unit?

Throughout the unit, I learnt the explain method to show my understanding of the article and to analyze the article and explain why the author used this to write it. I also learnt to organize my information by using the explain method.

What challenges have you faced?

Some challenges that I have faced during this unit is writing because speaking clearer during my prestations and I would need more practice in it

What would I need to improve in

I would need to improve in making sure that I would speak slower and more clearly so they could understand what I am speaking better and process the information better

WOOP Goal Poster

In this unit, we learnt about the key parts of the human brain and how would that affect the choices that we would make. We learnt that the 3 key parts of the brain, the Pre-Frontal Cortex, which is the part of the brain that helps us make decisions but is developed the slowest, the Amygdala, the part of the brain that processes our emotions and is the part that controls the FFF(Fight,Flight, Freeze) and the Hippocampus, the part of the brain the stores the memory.