Stephanie

Stephanie Calista Harmawan

Goals

In the wake of the pandemic, many schools have adapted by adopting online learning classes. Students and teachers alike needed to work together in order to create a functioning learning environment inside their homes, this was to avoid the further spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). As fellow users of online classes, most students are a part of the 92% that believe online learning is as, if not more effective than on site learning. Students and teachers are able to schedule their study times and—for schools—can casually enter classes and allow for a potentially more productive learning session. Not many doubt the effectiveness of online learning.

However, there is no doubt a hint of bias among the common consensus of online learning. Although online mediums have proven their effectiveness in terms of convenience and efficiency, there are cases where students are unable to learn at an optimum level. Speaking from our personal experience, learning virtually poses a degree of difficulty that mass surveys and research papers are simply unable to represent. Oftentimes they require additional individual study to truly understand the topic. And we plan to help aid those students willing to deepen and strengthen their academic knowledge. Cooperating with teachers and perhaps substituting them, we plan to create a server where most academic advice is easily accessible. Establishing a learning community in the process to inspire those who feel discouraged in learning. We want to know their issues, their problems, and their feedback in order to better ourselves and convey to the teacher in the long run.

Our group believes that an online student-led tutoring session will be one of the most effective methods of teaching other students, especially seniors to juniors. Our interactions will be held online, so as to avoid the dangers of the pandemic. We will create a discord server, a well-known media application, and utilize its various unique features for academic purposes. As a side product, we also plan to create a website documenting and listing down topics we have covered so anyone can revisit previously discussed topics. This website will also act as our backup plan. In case that our server receives few direct tutoring requests, we will instead create tutorial videos and enrich our site. The topics we will cover will include mathematics, sciences, English, Bahasa Indonesia, and general skills (preview for DP subjects, courses, and [QoL] quality of life skills).

Our Goal is to help mitigate this "learning loss," to cater to those students willing to constantly learn and improve themselves for the better.

Experience Description: LO Outcome

LO4: Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences

This learning outcome would be achieved by simply running and maintaining both the discord server and the website. Our server will act as physical evidence of our tutoring actions, while we will create a compilation and record important milestones along the way. Our commitment and perseverance will not only be shown by the evidence but also the product of our endeavors. The website, discord server, and the end of the program student reviews.

LO5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working, collaboratively

This project is not a one-man task, it will require collaborative work. Research published by Gaskell.A from Forbes suggests that working collaboratively will improve our performance in doing our project. Our project will have a multilayered management; Material research, Website Building, and most importantly the tutoring itself. Collaborative work will be required to distribute the load so as to keep CAS a project we can do without bothering our academic lives. The success of the project will be proof of our success in our collaborative work, as well as our group management.

LO6: Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance

As many students are having problems with their academics, we will be engaging with the issues of global significance. Research done by the University of Illinois exposed that one fatal issue with online classes is student discipline and literacy of technology. This also applies to the teachers and faculty members who aren’t used to teaching their students using the complete tools at their disposal, leading to severe inefficiencies. Our project aims to combat this global issue of learning inefficiency, especially for those students who are struggling to keep up with classes using the online medium due to unsatisfactory or inefficient teaching methods.

Many students are stressed out due to the pressure from school teachers and parents when it comes to academics. We will support their academics and help them to understand their studies even more.

LO7: Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

We must conduct our tutoring sessions ethically by acknowledging academic honesty. Our activities will not involve providing direct answers to the students’ questions or doing the students’ schoolwork for them. But instead, we will teach them how to come up with solutions to the problems they are facing by teaching them to solve similar problems.

Reflection

1. Reflection of Investigation Process

2. What past experiences could you use to build your prior knowledge when planning this CAS project?

I use my past experience in DP and MYP to build my prior knowledge when planning this CAS project. Since in MYP, I have been doing several service projects. One of them is to raise awareness towards a healthy lifestyle. I believe that this knowledge can help me in CAS this year.

3. What are your expectations for doing the CAS project?

In this project, I expect to help others in their school and outstanding tasks so that they can understand the topic more, and can pass with better grades. By doing this, I believe that I can be more aware about people around me who need help.

4. What is your personal commitment in contributing your role and responsibility to this CAS project?

My personal commitment in contributing my role is to be active and help my group mates in doing the project. By this, I believe that I could help others to achieve their goals.

5. How do you ensure you meet the learning outcomes of this project?

I'm going to make sure that I achieve the learning outcomes by checking the results of the action/investigation with the outcomes I chose to achieve. Through this, I believe that I can meet the learning outcomes of this project.

6. What is your current responsibility and what is your strategy to complete the task?

My task in this project is to help to spread the forms, and also the website moderator. In order to do this perfectly, I'm going to share it directly to my underclassmen friends to ensure that they reply to the google form. I will also actively help my friends to update the website and decorate it.

1. Reflection of Preparation Process

Date/time: April-May 2021

Venue: Online

Team members present: All

CAS stage: Preparation

LOs Achieved:

• Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experience

• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

• Description

1. How do you achieve this experience learning outcomes in this stage today?

We did a SWOT analysis today, and called by discord calls. In the discord call, we assigned our job and created a timeline. We used the SWOT analysis to identify our weaknesses and strengths and to prepare the issues we will overcome and its solution. As for the timeline, we use it to make deadlines and timeline of our activities for our project for the next few months. Soon, we made rules for our server. The rules are made to make sure that the students are learning effectively.

2. What was important or influential in this experience today?

Today, I am able to develop my communication skills as I need to communicate with my teammates. Through this stage, everyone worked well and collaboratively so that our preparation stage ran smoothly.

3. What is the memorable moment in this experience? What went well or was difficult today?

Communication with my teammates is one of the difficulties we get as we are communicating through social media, instead of meeting physically. As a result, we could’ve missed some chats and calls made for the project.

• Expressing Feeling

1. How do you feel when you are doing your experience today? Where do you think this emotional response comes from?

I am very motivated today as everyone has been working collaboratively which made the activity today run smoothly.

• Generating idea and asking question

1. What does this experience mean to you?

This experience gave me the opportunity of learning new skills and also building a community to teach others, specifically our underclassmen. It also allows me to practice my communication skills

2. How do you think your experience today contributes to the development of your IB Learner Profile attributes?

the experience of communicating with my teammates and underclassmen. Communication with underclassmen also contributes to developing caring. As we need to ensure that our underclassmen don't have any problems in studying.

1. Reflection of Action Process

Date/time: May-August 2021

Venue: Online

Team members present: All

CAS stage: Action

LOs Achieved:

• Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experience

• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

• Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance

• Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions

Description

1. How do you achieve this experience learning outcomes in this stage today?

After completing the preparation stage, we invited the students who had registered to be in the community to join our server. In this stage, the students start to ask questions related to school subjects. Tutors who are responsible for the subject helps the students to answer questions. And we made sure that we all followed the rules of our server so as to guide the students to find the correct answer. By this, we had demonstrated engagement with issues of global significance.

In the beginning of August, we showed more of our commitment to the project by doing the task given. As we were assigned to make a podcast to talk about DP subjects, and also adnices, we made a meeting online and recorded the podcast; which also includes the creation of the script, concept and recording. We were able to work collaboratively for this task and resulted well. Since we shared our advice based on our experience, and shared good advice, we are able to recognize ethics of choice and actions.

2. What was important or influential in this experience today?

I have practiced my communication skills today as I communicated with many different people, including my underclassmen and also my groupmates. Through this stage, everyone worked collaboratively to reach our goal. In the same time, I improved my self management skills where I needed to set time to do my CAS project, so as to do other tasks given.

3. What is the memorable moment in this experience? What went well or was difficult today?

We went through some difficulties in communicating with each other as we needed to talk through social media. Throughout the holiday, we rarely check the group chat which results in miscommunication sometimes. However, we managed to contact each other again by meeting again, and made a clear task to be done by each member to make our time more efficient.

• Expressing Feeling

1. How do you feel when you are doing your experience today? Where do you think this emotional response comes from?

I feel quite motivated to do the experience today, as everyone has been working collaboratively, and quite easy to be reached. Everyone’s also helping each other at the same time, so that gave me motivation to do this task.

• Generating idea and asking question

1. What does this experience mean to you?

This experience is an opportunity for me to learn new skills, so as to improve my skills; improving self-management skills, communicating, and website designing. In this project, I have challenged myself to give some time to myself to do the tasks given for this project from my self study session. I also challenged myself for my communication skills. However, I still lack participation. As a result, I plan to keep improving these skills by working collaboratively with other people next time.

2. How do you think your experience today contributes to the development of your IB Learner Profile attributes?

I think that the experience today contributed to being communicative since I need to communicate with many people throughout the process. I also learned to be a principled person, to be able to commit to the task and submit on time.