Collaborative skills

Collaboration is a skill used in all aspects of life. Year 8 English provided multiple opportunities for collaboration. Task 3 included the most collaboration in this program it allowed us to improve our collaborative skills by making a short film based on the short story that we created in task 2. To have a well-finished product all members of the group need to be involved. Collaboration is putting yourself forward to help your group and sharing your ideas while listening to others. It is taking responsibility and the opinions of your peers on board and working together as a team. All different people have different needs some need more encouragement than others. Being a good team member is helping people express their ideas to the group. Collaboration Allows me to build my knowledge and bounce my ideas off peers and learn from our mistakes together. Collaboration takes courage, it’s easier to work on your own but if you do You won’t experience being wrong and learning from others. This year has taught me to work as a group and expand my knowledge by learning from others and group collaboration is an awesome way to do exactly this.

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Learner agency

Year 8 provides freedom and diving deeper into finding knowledge for yourself. You are needed to source information to learn for yourself, I was required to work harder to reach the goals I wanted to achieve. English allowed me to improve based on my mistakes, I looked back on my feedback and I tried to improve my work. I saw my grade as feedback, it taught me what I needed to work on. I found that having the courage to ask questions was really helpful and Mr. Gatti provided me with the assistance that I needed. Having the courage to learn from my mistakes was hard but if I don’t take them into consideration I will not improve.

TASK NINE

By Ebonnie Knight