Introduction to Planning Process
Learning Journey Project
Your Learning Journey Project is a reflection of your personal educational journey. For this project, the form is as important as the content. You may wish to videotape a performance to showcase your skills, or you might write a reflective essay that captures both your development as a writer by telling the story of how your educational experiences have shaped you as a person. Your Learning Journey Project will be personal, reflective, and unique. Working with a mentor teacher, your project will take shape as you investigate what you've learned, and how it connects to the path you have set for yourself.
Learning Journey Choices
1. Where do you want to be in the future?
- - Create a project the outlines the significant academic skills and character competencies you have learned in the past that helped you get on track for your future career.
- - Outline what you will do in the future and discuss what skills and character traits you will be using.
- - Demonstrate a unique and special talent you have.
- - Discuss your learning of this skill in the past.
- - What will you do with this skill in the future.
3. Research three post secondary programs
- - List the programs and courses involved.
- -Outline program costs.
- - List the benefits and disadvantages of each program.
- - Apply to one of the programs. If you have completed 3 courses at YouLearn, then our school will consider paying your application fee.
4. Research Scholarships
- - Apply to 5 different scholarships
- - Submit copies of your application to your teacher.
- Portions of the Learning Journey Project ask you to use the online portfolio tool, MyBlueprint.ca. All of our students can access their Blueprint account by going to myblueprint.ca, clicking "School Login" and then using their SD53 email address as your username.
Capstone Project Ideas
Every project will be as unique as the student that undertakes it, but here are some general ideas to get you start:
- Learn a new skill - Along with your mentor, create a plan and a schedule to learn a skill that you can teach yourself. Choose a skill that you're interested in learning and find resources that you can follow to develop it. Students with an interest in filmmaking might set out to teach themselves how to use a new camera. Students planning to take an animation program might want to learn how to use a new piece of software.
- Research an Area of Interest - Exploring your family tree or finding out more about an ancestor are both examples of research that you can complete on your own under the guidance of a mentor. Create a presentation on all you've learned about your chosen career path or post-secondary educational goals. Seek out deeper knowledge about which you're curious.
- Volunteer/Service - Find an volunteer opportunity in your community and apply yourself to it. A student interested in ecology might seek out an environmental clean-up group and pick up trash in a local green space. A student that is concerned with tackling poverty might look for a mentor in a social service and collect donations of used clothing to deliver to a local non-profit.
- Take a Course - If you weren't able to take a particular course or you have an interest outside of the school's academic subjects, you could find an online course that satisfies your curiousity. Take the course and present on the new knowledge you've acquired.
- Challenge Yourself - Students that are seeking mastery in an area such as athletics or academics might want to track their progress in achieving a personal goal. Can you dunk a basketball? Choose a challenge and, under the guidance of your mentor, create a schedule to work toward it. Track your progress and report back on your achievement or the challenges you faced. You don't have to be successful in meeting the challenge if you can present the process and reflect on what held you back and the obstacles you still need to overcome.
- Develop a Skill - A student that is involved in a competitive sport or is already on the path to mastery of a skill might dive deeper into tracking their progress as they develop it. A presentation that offers a peek inside the training process in an area such as sports, arts, language arts, engineering or foods can demonstrate new learning and showcase connections to academics and a future career path.
- Teach Something - Create a video, website or podcast tutorial to share what you know with others. Teaching a skill is a great way to develop your ability and showcase what you know.