12 Important Values
By: Andrew Tran
08/28/2017-10/06/2017
“This project was mainly about improving our artistic skills, something to get us out of the mindset of just arts and crafts to professional projects. What it consisted of was decorating and labeling our binder, to make it unique to us and serve its purpose of organizing school work. There are 5 tabs, on each one represents favorite hobbies, relations, food, goals, and contributions. The cover of the binder was another part, it had to have 12 values that you have.”
This project was an independent project, so that meant that there were no partners, and I can agree with that, it’s your binder so you should find a way to express yourself. That isn’t what other classmates can do, whether it was your future goals, contributions, relations, hobbies, anything in your personal life, it can’t all be described by your fellow peers. When I finished my rough draft, I went out to receive critique from peers and support teachers. That may have been the only collaboration I did in the whole project.
The main thing I learned in this project would be organization, but branching off into the work, I also learned that I improved my symbolism. The class learning outcomes were also improved upon, for the first official project launched in August, I managed to finish the work in a timely fashion with demonstrates work ethic, and when I received critique from my peers and fellow teachers it showed that I collaborated to make a better product. When I made the tabs which include some of my personal life, I included a description showing why I put it on there, I feel that my written communicated can also be demonstrated like that. A time where I showed outstanding oral communication would be when I did my 5 minute check up with Mrs. Carol, I explained everything in my binder and gave some extra information what came with the pictures I used. The content that was displayed in the binder could use some work, but I feel like I’m fine with the way it turned out.
The class has values that we honor, and try to connect to whenever we do projects. Our class values are Grit, Respect, Responsibility, Empathy, and Integrity. After I got critique for my work, I got to try and again and improve this, Grit is all about pushing through and I made it better by work on it more. Responsibility and Integrity were shown when I did my 5 minute interview before the day it was due on the original due date. Empathy and Respect are hard choices in this project, but I have a baseline of always treating others with respect and try to be empathetic because it should be expected from me.
What I did for my binder was create a phoenix on the front, with each feather having values that make up who I am. The very first tab was relationships, and that one gave me a hard time, friends and family are considered my relationships so I put a collage of friends photos and family photos. Next, was the hobbies tab, what I put there was Rock climbing, video games, sleeping, and music. I filled out each tab with specific things I do in my personal life. What I offered to this, was hard work and determination, it those should always be shown in projects and I think I fulfilled those. If I were to grade myself for the learning outcomes and class values, I would probably get full credit on the class values, but the learning outcomes could have been better if I gotten more critique.