PDP Review

My first target is putting more time into each piece of work, I have been making loads of progress with this target because I am spending at least twice as long doing each piece of work so that I am completing it to the best of my ability. The strategy I used to improve this target was to complete the work and then review and find faults, the correct them and then get my dad to review it and correct any faults he finds, this strategy was very effective and I am doing much better in my assignments. I have made progress with this target because I am getting much better grades in my assignments and I am currently meeting the top level for each assignment in all of my assignments. A new strategy that I might use is to get my teacher to review my work too.

My second target is to listening more in class, I have made lots of progress with this target because I am listening more and more to what it being said in class and I am asking more questions too. The strategy I used to improve on this target was to always make sure that no matter what I'm doing I turn around and listen when the teacher is talking, sometimes even if they are talking to someone else about their work I turn around. I have made progress with this target because I am hearing everything the teachers are saying and I'm not missing any important information, I also got a raffle ticket for paying excellent attention during presentations. A new strategy I might use is to note down the key things that the teachers say in class.

My last target is to improve my public speaking, I have made a lot of progress with this target because I am speaking out more in class and the other day due to the fact that I had finished the work I went around the class helping people do their work. The strategy I used to improve this target was to say a little more each lesson so that I gradually build up my confidence in my public speaking. I have made progress with this target because I am speaking more in class and I got recognision from Terrence about how good my communication skills are. A new strategy I might use is to purposely put myself in situations where I have to do public speaking.

A new target that I'm going to set myself is to make sure that I use my free time at college to do or improve on my work as this may benifit me in the long run.

Review of Progress

My PDP targets were to: spend more time on each piece of work, listen more in class and to improve my public speaking skills.

It was important that I improved my skills related to spending more time on each piece of work because I was rushing through each piece of work and not putting enough effort into each piece of work and therefore the work was not up to the full standard that I could have achieved if I put my full effort into my work. I have made a lot of progress in improving this skill because I am spending more time doing my work and I spend 2 and a half hours on one piece of work the other day and I did a really good piece of work.

My PDP achievements for the week

This week I worked more on putting more time on each piece of work and I spent 2.5 hours on Lucy's work that is due in today and I did a really good piece of work in the end :). I haven't made any more headway to improving my public speaking inside or outside college. I have been paying more attention in class though, I have started to take notes in my classes and now I am starting to have a written record of everything I'm doing as well as one on moodle.

My PDP achievements for the week

This week was the first time I actually had my targets for my PDP therefore I can only start blogging about my achievements now. This week I feel that I have achieved some way to my first target of putting more time into each piece of work because I didn't rush the leaflets I made for Terrence's assignment and put a lot of effort into them :). I'm on the way to listening more in class, I'm still getting a bit distracted sometimes but it's getting better :P.
I haven't made any headway with improving my public speaking at college but I talked to my boss at my job and I'm going to be representing them at quarterly meetings with the MP for Gravesham which will help me to improve my public speaking.

My Assessment of Me

I have a variety of strengths that range over a wide area, I am a good team member but I excel when put into a leadership role as I like to take control and organise people to get the full potential out of them and to complete the task at hand to the best of our ability. I genuinely enjoy managing people as I like to be in control of a situation and to make sure the job gets done. I am also quite organised and tend to get all of my work in on time and have it completed to the best of my ability.
I am a rather knowledgeable person and have a vast range of skills of such topics as; catering, filing and timetabling skills, as well as knowledge about things like football and rugby.

I'm a very honest person who will own up to something if I have done something wrong, I will always come clean to my mistakes because you learn from your mistakes and if I didn't then I wouldn't learn anything. I am a very determined person and if I want something then I will do everything in my power to get what I want, which can sometimes cause me to accidentally step on a few people in my quest to get what I want.

One of my weaknesses is that I tend to procrastinate a lot and leave some things to the last minute because I have been putting them off and this sometimes causes me to rush work. I also sometimes step on people without realising it but once I have realised that I have stepped on someone I will go back and apologise. I also am not too communicative with people sometimes and therefore I am sometimes a bit of an outsider in a group.

My targets for improving my weakness' are to focus on my work better and to do work as soon as it is set so that I don't have to rush the work and my work can show my full potential.