Brainstorm and consider what items you want to include on the poster about your Belbin Role.

I think I would include maybe several historical figures that were a Shaper, perhaps include quotes by them, or maybe I could add in some pictures that will relate to a Shaper. We could also put in several facts and points that a Shaper has, for example liking to win and whether we suit that point or not, like comparing them. We could do that by drawing Spider Diagrams or Mind Maps. We could also have a description that will describe the role of a Shaper. We can also put in examples or experience where we fit in with the role of a Shaper, and by doing that we can P. E. E. L. (Point, Evidence, Explain and Link). We could probably have an advantages and disadvantages section where we list down the good and bad things of a Shaper and whether we are like them or not. Opinions of a Shaper could also be implemented on the poster. We could also have questions that we want to ask ourselves about the specific role.

Compare your Belbin roles to what other people thought of you.

Other students completely agree with the Belbin roles I set myself. Some of them I didn't completely agree with, such as the Shaper, they thought it fully fits me but after I told them how I didn't have some of its characteristics they were convinced. I think I set myself the correct roles according to the Belbin roles.

Belbin Results

1. Compare your actual Belbin results to what you thought you will be.

              I think the Belbin results is exactly what I planned out to be, except for the order. I thought that I would have Completer Finisher as my first rank but apparently, I have got Shaper as my first one. Other than that, it was completely as I expected.

2. Do you agree with the results.

              Completely, yes, except for the Shaper role which is the first. I would've planned it to be second or third but not the first. I agree with my Implementer role which is the third rank as I agree with almost all the points on there. For Completer Finisher, I think that I have all the points as clarified while I disagree with a few points regarding the Shaper role.

3. Discuss how your group balances its Belbin roles.

              I think that my group balances its Belbin roles because each of us specialises in the role that another one is not particularly strong at. If you look at the team wheel, all of ours fill in each team role so that we are kept balanced.

4. How can the team wheel help our group to complete our projects?

              I think the team wheel helps our group because by using the wheel, we know which area we expertise in and then we can only assign tasks which will be most effective if done by the right person. This also helps us to know and understand our teammates better.

Belbin Team Roles for Young People

From the list of the Belbin Team Roles, I think that I am some parts of a Shaper but I don't agree to certain parts such as "They don't mind upsetting people, as long as the task gets done" and "they like to win" because I do mind if I upset people, and I will immediately apologize, even though I like winning, it is not a matter of great importance because I believe our aim is trying the hardest, and not to win. I don't mind if things aren't going as I expected, because that is probably because my teammate has a better idea. I used qualities like this in several group projects where I tend to try and get my teammates to do as I plan out, like a Science project where we have to advertise our type of energy. This could be something I would change.

I know for a fact that I am definitely a Completer Finisher as I always panic slightly when I am scared that the work I am doing won't be finished before the deadline. I usually don't need any motivation for me to do my work and I always try my hardest to produce good quality work for any activity. An example of me being a Completer Finisher is during the Humanities biography. During that time, I made sure that I finished my work before the deadline and I went through it several times and edited some things to make sure that it has good quality.

I think that I am a bit of all four Monitor Evaluator, Implementer, Coordinator and Specialist. I think I am a bit of the Monitor Evaluator because I always go through all the factors and will only come up with a judgement if only I am sure that it is correct and there are no better ideas. I use this in a lot of group and individual projects like the English Film Festival by making sure that I will use the most interesting storyline in order to pique the audience's interest.

I think I am an Implementer because when I work, I usually do it in a systematic way. I am often also seen by others as "dull" and "hardworking". When I do my work, I usually plan everything out before doing it and make sure that it is not messy. I am also often loyal to my group. An example of me being an Implementer is when I was doing the Humanities Child Soldiers biography. I planned everything out carefully, including my storyline and the outline of my work itself, then only carried out the work itself.

I think I am a Coordinator because I always make sure that everyone in my group is doing the work that they are assigned in order to achieve our goal. An example of me is during the MUN CCA, where I was chairing a meeting and before that meeting during the preparations, I help the others to make sure that they reach their goal.

I feel that I am a Specialist sometimes because I often remember information that I researched in the past. I happen to participate in a wide range of activities and I usually gain a lot of experience and knowledge from those tasks which I would use in work that I am currently on. An example of me being a Specialist was when I researched a lot about Child Soldiers in MUN last year, and used the knowledge that I gained from there to write about a Child Soldier's biography in Humanities this year.

In the end, I feel like I'm a part of many things, sometimes beneficial, sometimes disadvantageous. But these characteristics often help me through all types of work, whether group or individual.

Look at the learning intention: - re-write it in your own words.

Original Learning Intention: To plan and undertake and enquiry into the causes, impacts and management of natural hazards.

My Version: To organise and plan your research/questions about the causes, influences and the patterns of natural disasters.

What questions did you identify for your title page?

The questions that I'm interested are including, but not limited to:

1. Why does Earth keeps changing? What is its purpose?

2. How does everyone (people, animals, plants) adapt to these situations when the Earth changes?

3. What are the aftermaths of these changes?

4. Are the changes beneficial or disadvantageous towards humanity? If so, how?

5. What is the cause for the changes?

I'm interested in these questions because I feel like I can grasp more information of what the world really is. I find it quite interesting that a lot of the things we see today are linked directly to the history of Earth right back to the creation of itself, for example, volcanoes.

Movie: What does this tell you about our "restless planet"? Why do you think it is called a "restless Earth"?

The movie tells me that our planet, the Earth, is constantly changing since the creation of itself. This tells us that our "restless planet" has been changing in many different ways, and volcano is one of the most important factors when the Earth was created since the volcano's source of heat is actually from the Earth's core. It has changed from just a collision of several rocks in space to a huge planet with wonderful places scattered all over the place. I think it is called a "restless Earth" because it has changed in so many various different ways throughout the whole history of Earth.

If biography done: 2) Reflect on Entire Project

I find the entire project extremely helpful and it really helped me understand and grasped a better understanding of the world. In this topic, I realised that some cruelties are actually very painful, both mentally and physically, yet not a lot of the people in the world know about this. I felt that this topic really made me challenge myself by putting my emotions and predicting consequences so I would make this as realistic as possible. In the end, I felt that I learnt a lot of things and achieved a lot of goals that I set.

Here is my mind map of the Thinking Skills that I used! You can zoom in if it is hard to see!

You Zhen 9X Reflection

These are the self reflection questions and answers:

Humanities Self Reflection    What was the key question of this topic?                I think that the key question of this topic is "What are Human Rights?" In one paragraph write an answer to the question, thinking about what you have learned.                I think Human Rights are something that everyone should be entitled to since birth, but unluckily, not everyone in this world has that entitlement. There are so many issues in the world right now that are caused by people taking away certain rights away from people. People suffer everyday because rights are taken away from them and certain people will take advantage of them. Why do you think this topic is important?                I think that this is topic is important because after all, Human Rights are something we are entitled to. These rights are one of the most basic necessities of every human being. We also learnt which people don't have these certain rights and why. This is important because people have been taking away other people's rights and they need to know that all humans are born equal. If everyone was educated about this, the world's issues would drop by a lot. Which learning opportunities did I most enjoy doing?  Why?                I enjoyed writing the biography a lot because well, I enjoy writing. I also find that I use a lot of thinking skills when I'm writing. I was able to use my imagination to write stories, and used a lot of empathy. I found that when I wrote the biography, I was learning a lot and was able to understand more about my issue and how the person feels. Which learning opportunities did I least enjoy doing?  Why?               I didn't find anything that I least enjoy doing, but if I had to choose one, I would choose the part where we were analysing the History of Human Rights. Partly because, well, I find it a little boring. But that is it, I found the rest extremely informative. What skills have I used? Include 3 examples of work that show these skills.                Refer to the mind map I made! How can the learning in this topic help me in the ‘real world’?                I think that it can help me by showing me the rights from wrongs. Human Rights is a very important topic as people who caused genocides weren't taught about Human Rights and how everyone should be equal. What key idea do you think people should be aware of about this topic?                I think that people should be aware of how many people are suffering in the world right now because of loss of Human Rights. It is also an extremely good idea to teach them right from wrong and tell them that everyone deserve equal rights and everyone should be treated equally. Rate from 1-5 (with 5 being extremely happy and 1 being very unhappy):                Level of Knowledge & Understanding: 5                Progress:                                                   5                Enjoyment:                                                4 What targets could I set to help make progress in my learning? Try to link them to your humanities learning and the key skills you want to develop.  E.g. Try to use key terms in my answers, try to ask my own questions. 1. To P.E.E.L. (Point, Evidence, Explain, Link) more in my work. 2. To plan and organise my time and work so that I can do it accordingly and not mess it up so easily. 3. To co-operate and communicate with other students to create success criteria more often.

This is my self-reflection and I learnt a lot during this topic!

If biography done: 1) Reflect upon your group individual success criteria

I feel that I have successfully achieved my group's and my success criteria because I have managed to do all of those. Even though I find some bits challenging, such as to be able to predict a consequence upon a certain action, I have successfully managed to pull it off. I find others easy, such as to be able to research independently and come up with a set of organised notes to put inside the final biography, because I have done a lot of planning before and I know how is is structured. I managed to achieve all of the group success criteria except to P.E.E.L. (Point, Evidence, Explain and Link) because I find it slightly hard to P.E.E.L. when you are writing a biography.

I managed to achieve all my individual success criteria and I found it pretty easy because I have used these skills in a lot of my projects. I also found that they were extremely useful when I used them with my writing. These success criterias have helped my by guiding me with various different ways. All in all, I feel that I have achieved most of my success criteria and I will work to develop on the others the next time.

Reflection After Biography: How has your biography connected you to this issue?

I feel as if I connected to it because I feel the difference of my life compared to theirs. We often complain about our daily lives but in reality, there are a lot more children in a lot worse situation than ours. So when I wrote this, I felt really lucky and I used empathy to make me feel more connected to the main character, and I keep asking myself, what would I do in this situation? This always helps me put myself in their shoes and I find it easier to do. Even though I put empathy, I still find it a little hard to believe how cruel can people be.

ELP

I can finally post my ELP! Here is my section A and B! Click on the picture if you want to zoom in!

You Zhen_9X_ELP Section B

Humanities Child Soldiers Biography

This is my child soldiers biography. There might be some minor errors here and there but all the events that happened are true, just pieced together from different sources and times. I hope you enjoy it!


You Zhen_9X_Humanities Child Soldiers Biography

How can a peer review of work be helpful?

I think a peer review is extremely helpful because it can be beneficial to both ourselves and the other students. We get to have constructive criticism on our work to improve where we missed out anything or where we need some clarification on. I have done quite a lot of peer reviews using and realised that I often miss out somethings and have some vague parts which my peer will always point out to me to make my writing clearer. We can also help the others by giving comments for where they might need to improve on. All in all, I think peer reviews are extremely useful to everyone since it'll give us a sense on what we need to improve in our writing.

Describe your progress on your ELP due November 15.

I'm in the midst of finishing Section A. I've listed almost all the things I know that relates to human rights. I have a clear intention of which issue I will be focusing on. I would most likely be working with the issue of child soldiers since I have done a lot of research on it and I have a basic idea of what I would like to do. I'm moving on to Section B where I have to find clothes that make a statement and why.

Discuss your biography/post your plan/talk about how you will present your individual.

I will write my biography in a first person diary style to make it more realistic and have more empathy for the protagonist. I will separate my story into several different sections, to show how different the life was when each event happened. Each event is going to be separated by a few days so it wouldn’t be too repetitive. My character’s name is going to be a boy in Myanmar called: Khine Chankrisna (translated to mean “Firm Tree”). His dad’s name is: Hla Thet Myaing (translated to mean “Beautiful Calm Forest”). His mum’s name is: Thant Kyi Nanda (translated to mean “Clean Clear River”).

Part 1: Life in Peace.

Here we find Khine Chankrisna telling his normal daily life with his family. His family are farmers, where they live poor, but peaceful and happy. We find him telling about farming and his normal chores where he help out his parents.

Part 2: The Unexpected Turn.

This time, we find how Khine Chankrisna gets captured and how his parents died. He will tell how his sister and himself got captured by the army and how he got into servitude. This part will be a bit violent as the army will burn down houses and kill off their parents. They will be locked up by the army until they want to join the army. He then was forced to make a pact that he will do the best he can otherwise the army will kill him.

Part 3: Training in Hell.

Khine starts his army training and he gets treated very atrociously. He gets treated as an adult even though his body structure is not as developed yet. In this part, he also learns that his sister is a servant and a slave for the army and this builds up his anger.

Part 4: The Recruitment.

This part Khine will be forced to start recruiting more child soldiers and killing off parents. Here the face the fear by "drinking the victim's blood", a tradition by the army to make them not afraid of killing.

Part 5: The War.

Khine participated in a war against an opposition army in Myanmar called the Shan State Army and he loses one of his leg when he stepped on a mine. No-one stops to help him and he ended up dragging himself towards the opposition, hoping that they will accept him. But it wasn't his lucky day, the Shan State Army got captured while some of them got killed. Khine was caught trying to co-operate with them so he got re-captured by the Burmese army. While they were in jail, he swore to exact revenge on the Army. While in jail, he found a piece of paper and found out the jail was actually built by other slaves. They hid the paper which shows the secret exit. He then starts to formulate a plan and decides to exact vengeance on the army.



By showing how Khine was treated, I can link to how many Human Rights were broken. I also might put in how his father has previously told him the lives of other people on the planet, which may lead Khine to think how come they have things like freedom and justice while he doesn't. I will look back to my research and see which Human Rights I can put in there that were violated.



By the way, this is a rough plan. I might deduct and add somethings while I'm writing.