You will need to create an action plan for achieving your chosen product. This demonstrates how you manage your time
To create a detailed action plan, you should first develop success criteria for your product and determine the necessary steps or actions that will be required to meet those criteria. This will also establish a foundation to explain whether or not the goal was achieved in the report.
The process of developing success criteria and establishing an action plan to meet the success criteria is likely to require some research. Similarly, you may need to carry out research related to your learning goal, which could be included as part of your action plan.
Your Action plan is to be embedded in your report
Ensure your timelines are within the school schedule for the Personal Project.
You should create an action plan which best suits how you learn best.
You are also not restricted to creating one type of action plan. Ie you could create a to-do list for gathering your product resources and then write a more detailed action plan for how you carry out the report writing.
Action plans might be or might include:
Action tables, GANTT charts, to-do lists, calendar tasks, a step-by-step logical plan, storyboards, graphs, a bullet journal, a spreadsheet, flow-charts, equipment and materials lists, slippage chart, goal charts, project timelines, Kanban boards or scrum boards.
Action Plan Top Tips:
Become a plan for achieving the product → which part of the success criteria they try to achieve (use Assessment Criteria Association)
Focus only on the process of creating the product. Remove the ones that are not related to the achieving product, e.g, report writing, project exhibition.
Students can create a big picture of the action plan (long term), and then by the end of the process, they can add the details of the action plan (short term)
Start with research for the action plan; no need for other items that are not reflected in the creation of the product.
Iterative process
As you create your action plan, you will gain a sense of whether you can achieve your product within a reasonable time frame, and you may revise your learning goal and/or product accordingly.
Action Plan Example 1
See examples of past BIS student action plans. Go to the appendix examples