ASA Personal Project

ASA PP is compulsory for all Year 10 Students. This is the way that the school helps to provide you a detailed description of the process of the PP. ALL STUDENTS SHOULD COME - every Tuesday from 15.00 - 16.00 in MPR 3. You must be present on time……...That is the information that Year 10 students received in the student bulletin every week.

Muhammad Bey Ali - 10C

Well paint me green and call me a cucumber!

It’s finally that time (for me) in an MYP (Middle Years Programme) student’s life, where everything we’ve learned will be applied to the PP (Personal Project)! On one side, I am extremely thrilled to be given the opportunity to make my own personal project, but on the other side, I am equally terrified knowing that this is my first year studying in GJS and that I legitimately have ZERO preparation and prior knowledge of the PP, let alone anything IB related in that sense. Adding more fuel to the fire, prior to my study in GJS, I had many of my friends and family who experienced or are experiencing IB describe to me about PP. Most of these conversations would end in scary descriptions of PP ranging from how overwhelming PP is, even for the gutsiest of people, to being one of the biggest determining points for moving up to year 11.

Fortunately, GJS made it their priority to make ASA PP for both new and returning students with hopes of students completing PP with great results. ASA PP is a weekly meeting between teachers and students, which clarifies terms for PP, gives information relevant to PP, and provides tips and tricks to complete PP by inviting guest speakers ranging from other teachers to students that have experienced PP before. Overall, ASA PP was a really helpful experience, especially for newcomers like me, because it was able to give me a grasp of what PP is really like, and how I should approach it. From all of ASA PP, the two meetings that really stood out and was the most helpful for me was Ibe Hellena and Abel’s discussions.

In Ibu Hellena’s meeting, we discussed citing in the PP report, which should be in MLA form. In her ASA PP moment, she also gave us clear instructions to making MLA citation and why it’s important to cite by presenting to us a powerpoint presentation consisting of eight slides about citation. Prior to this, I didn’t really know how to cite, but after Ibu Hellena’s presentation, I started to understand how to cite better.

In Abel’s meeting, she discussed criteria D and Appendix B. Criteria D is the reflection part of the report and Appendix B is further explanation of the ATL skills that were applied to making the PP. I personally didn’t understand what appendix B is or what I should be reflecting on. Thanks to Abel’s presentation, I clearly understand all the things I should do and don’t for criteria D and Appendix B.

ASA PP was a very great experience all around. Although as such, I feel that there is still room for improvement for the ASA PP program. One aspect that I feel could’ve been better is the number of meetings for ASA PP. In my opinion, I feel that there should’ve been more meetings, as there were days where the program had days off. Despite the encouragement to ask questions in the ASA PP meetings, not all students are confident in asking questions, which could lead to some students not understanding the topic in mind. Other than that, some students might be absent for a prolonged time due to sickness. They might also miss out on what the program has to offer. Nonetheless, ASA PP has been really helpful for me and I bet all year 10 students,too. I hope that the following batches would also have the opportunity to experience ASA PP.

Rawnie Kalisha Susandra - 10D

ASA PP is a required informational after-school class that discusses the different aspects of the Personal Project's Report by inviting diverse speakers. The speakers range from students to teachers, all with specialized knowledge and experience about each topic- including Pak James and Kak Syahna. The speakers present each of their report aspects with extra tips and tricks. Additionally, Grade 10 students would be given time to ask general questions, and a more focused problem after the ASA has ended.

The purpose of the ASA is for students to gain a higher understanding of the best methods of producing a PP Report. Which is done by offering varying perspectives on the matter; previous students' experiences and teacher's specifications. For example, as a PYP, MYP, and DP Curriculum Coordinator, Pak James gave specific tips and details that would help us. This included his advice on following the guide that he made himself and ways to prevent problems in our Criterion A. He even provided a template to further explain information about the subject. These ASA classes are successful in achieving its goal, shown through the students' cooperation, lack of absences, and active participation within the ASA.

ASA PP has helped students, such as myself, to gain a greater understanding of PP. Syahna's presentation on Criterion C and Appendix A is especially helpful as my product is similar to hers. Criterion C focuses on the product, which was especially beneficial as I was going through the process myself. Her tips on booking the venue a week before, inviting guests that will definitely come, and much more. Her discussion on Appendix A and the significance of ATL Skills helped me to focus my time on it rather than putting it aside. The previous student's example also guided me in creating an organized structure for my report.

According to my classmates and I's experience with ASA PP, there are a few points that would make this learning event better. All of the speakers should be encouraged to additionally give tips and tricks that are not included in the guide or further guidances. These personal pieces of advice that come from their own struggles apply to our individual problems. This makes the ASA even more worthwhile as it does not only restate the guides but provide more information than given.

Mohamad Kareem Sjahrasjid - 10D

ASA PP is an after school class that discusses one of the requirements of this year (Grade 10), the Personal Project. During these after school classes there will be guest speakers ranging from students to teachers. Each after school class/session will discuss a different topic or criteria. For example, criterion A and criterion B. Furthermore, the guest speakers will provided the Grade 10 students with tips and tricks to complete the task with efficiency while being as detailed as possible

The ASA PP purpose is to help students to understand certain parts of the Personal Project Report. For example, Bu Laili is one of the teachers who helped students to understand on how to create a proper citation and works cited. This helped students to create a proper citation since it will be in the criterion A and their work cited. Another example was Kak Zarissa, who explained on how to complete the criterion B of the Personal Project Report. Her explanation was clear and understandable, she also followed with multiples tips on how to complete it.

From this ASA PP many of the grade 10 students can feel more confident in themselves when doing their own personal project. For example, Kak Zarissa’s presentation about her criterion B. From her presentation it helped a grade 10 student like me to understand more and to be efficient when writing my criterion B since I already know how to format, complete it with detail and do it efficiently. She also gave many tips and tricks on how to do our criterion B, from this she helped a lot of people in doing their personal project.

ASA PP is very helpful but their are aspects improve. For some students, ASA PP can be improved. After the guest speaker is done, students should try to do what the guest speaker has said in class. This helps students to intake the information given from the guest speaker. ASA PP can also be improved when PP initiators helped the students to understand about what has been discussed during past and present session.

Alayka Seputra - 10E

I’ve come to Global Jaya School with the knowledge that I’d get a good education and a much different experience from my previous school, Mentari International School Jakarta. As a new student coming from a fellow international school using the IB Curriculum, the last few months have been much different than I thought. I’m not so sure whether it’s because I’m new or easily stressed, but it seems that due dates are chasing me one after another as if it’s a game of duck-duck-goose. Thankfully, because of Global Jaya’s consideration for our stress rates as Year 10 students aiming to graduate MYP, Personal Project as the yardstick of our whole year, they’d created an after school session for almost every week where we review what would make our PP successful; ASA PP.

ASA PP is an after school session that met every Tuesday or during MYP Core if students were unavailable after school. Personally, despite missing a few sessions because of unavailability, I took those one-hour sessions to mind in order to improve my PP report draft, such as for my Criterion B. ASA PP was incredibly useful (alongside the assistance from the initial students) when I was creating my Personal Product criteria.

During the start of the ASA PP’s, Ibu Dani helped us in polishing our proposal and overall Criterion A portion by teaching us about the IB Global Contexts. I was having trouble in finalizing whether I wanted to use “Fairness and Development” or “Personal and Cultural Expression”. But I figured, because of Ibu Dani’s short lecture, that I should do “Fairness and Development” because the concept of my PP is to go against Teenage Age Discrimination, my paintings are just the products to show that. We needed to choose an IB Global Context that truly defined our PP, and Ibu Dani really helped with doing so.

Teachers aren’t the only ones who help us to succeed in our PP, but students who have graduated MYP with a good PP also do so. To set the bar for all of us, Kak Jason was the one to go to because of his product and Criterion A; a documentary that showed disabled people working. It was inspirational as it set the bar for us to create a product that is not only good in quality, but fits with our topic, serving a meaning through creativity. In the folder “PYP/MYP Presentations” that was shared to all of us, Kak Jason gave us examples that explained each strand of Criterion A, which would help us improve our Criterion A and quality of our product. His overall presentation was exemplary, as he used relatable content that was interactive and fit for ou age to create a better understanding. He assured not only our well-being and success in our PP, but he made sure that we did not lose interest in his lecture.

Not only does ASA PP give educational support for PP, but emotional support as well as it motivates us to do better as Year 10 students who truly need to ace PP in order to pass the MYP Program to move on to the IB/DP Program. The big issue now for Year 10 is all about time management, because the given curriculum itself is hard for this year and the extra weight of PP itself that would determine whether we could pass MYP is truly a burden. But ASA PP acts as a support as it gives us time to improve our report and consult with the supervisors. ASA PP has helped me a lot and assured the quality of my report so far to be more than sufficient to the expectations.

Back to Home

Page updated

Report abuse