Please arrive tomorrow ready to rehearse your entire POL!
9th Grade TPOL Questions
Spring 2011
Personal Connections and Adult World Connections:
1. Which project did you have the most personal connection with this year? Why?
2. What have you learned (skill, lesson, or knowledge) this year that will be most helpful for you in the future?
3. What project or projects have you done this year that have inspired you to want to learn more? Explain how you were inspired.
4. How has your attitude toward learning changed this year?
5. What connections have you made this year between what you have learned in your classes and your own personal experiences outside of school?
6. How have your learning and experiences at AHS this year changed the way you see the world?
7. What work from this year would you like to look back on and remember when you are a graduating senior?
You as a Student and a Learner
(Your Work and Your Work Habits):
1. What is most important change that you have made as a learner this year?
2. How have you taken an active role in your education this year?
3. What piece of work that you’ve done this year are you proudest of? Why?
4. If you could go back and refine one piece of work this year, what piece of work would you refine and how would you refine it?
5. If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your work habits?
6. What might you want next year’s teacher to know about your work habits?
7. What is the most difficult thing you have done this year? Why was it difficult, and how did you deal with that difficulty?
8. How has group collaboration helped you as a student?
Reflecting on Yourself and Our Model of Education
(Project Based Learning and our Student Culture)
1. What would you say to an incoming 9th grader about how to succeed in project based learning?
2. How have any of the habits of heart and mind helped you be successful as a student or person?
3. How has a relationship with a faculty member helped you be more successful in school this year?
4. How has the work in Advisory helped you grow or change as a student, as a friend, and as a citizen?
5. Project based learning is a different model than traditional models of education. Explain how Project based learning has influenced your learning and your production of work.
