Thursday 25th February

I am on track with all of my targets and am making steady progress with them. I am improving in myself and college is going well. I am keeping up with all of my assignments and am on track to achieve a distinction.

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 still spending just 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 used this strategy previously and it is still working well so Im not going to change what I am doing. 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, I have achieved a Distinction in Units 2 and 24 which puts me near the top of the class and on target to achieve top marks. I trialled getting my teacher to review my work more but the practicality is that they don't have enough extra time to do this with every piece of work.

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, my tutors have also been commenting on this and saying how I'm contributing more to class time. 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 have been trialling a new strategy of noting down key points which has paid off sometimes but other times the key points are already written down for me so I don't need to do anything.

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 with their programming because I had finished my work about 3 days previous to that. 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 am helping people do their work because I have already finished, having to tell people what to do is really forcing me to improve my public speaking skills. My new strategy of putting myself in situations where I have to publically speaking is working because I'm helping out more in class which means I have to speak to people more.

I have been working on my target of using my free college time to do work and I have made loads of progress with that as I currently don't have any assignments left to do and have worked through some of my lunch breaks to get work done.