Criteria A
PLANNING
state a learning goal for the project and explain how a personal interest led to that goal
state an intended product and develop appropriate success criteria for the product
present a clear, detailed plan for achieving the product and its associated success criteria
RED = Important for the criteria.
1. STATE A LEARNING GOAL FOR THE PROJECT AND EXPLAIN HOW A PERSONAL INTEREST LED TO THAT GOAL
To get an 8, you will have to write your ultimate learning goal for your project. What does this mean?
Look at your project(s), what is your desired education outcome from this? What will you learn?
EXAMPLE: My personal project is making keychains. My learning goal is to sell these keychains. My learning outcome is to develop my marketing skills and learn how to relate to my audience.
To get an 8, you will have to write why you chose this as your personal project.
You will have to write about why you chose that learning goal based on your interests. Why do you want to do this? What is your past experiences on this interest? How will these interests help you?
EXAMPLE: I chose to create a picture book because I am good at painting and drawing. I have created multiple artistic scenes before based on a prompt, however none of them had original characters or prompts. I chose to learn how to make a picture book because I want to expand my knowledge on story-telling and character designing which will be all original and unique.
2. STATE AN INTENDED PRODUCT AND DEVELOP AN APPROPRIATE SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR THE PRODUCT
To get an 8, you will have to write a detailed (what, where, when, how) success criteria for your final product. This is not the same as an action plan. The success criteria will determine whether or not your product will be considered successful (according to YOU.) Because you are the creator, you will be making your own requirements for your own personal product.
Usually, a success criteria is not a paragraph, it can be a list, but this can still apply:
EXAMPLE: I want to sculpt a dog with clay materials. I want my sculpture to include a detailed, explicit model of a Chihuahua drinking liquid out of it's bowl. To know I am successful with this requirement, I will ask for peers and mentors' feedback for my product. Here are some examples of feedback that I receive that highlight the positive fragments of my sculpture.
FEEDBACK EXAMPLE (1): "This sculpture does look a lot like a Chihuahua, but the texture of the fur when looking really closely the fur direction does not match the actual Chihuahua. I think if you want to reach your goal, you should improve on the appearance and overall texture of the sculpture."
3. PRESENT A CLEAR, DETAILED PLAN FOR ACHIEVING THE PRODUCT AND ITS ASSOCIATED SUCCESS CRITERIA.
To get an 8, you will have to present an action plan which details when, how, and what you are going to do/have done throughout your entire project (this is basically your process journal.) And by entire project, I mean not only your product, but your whole report too.
This includes planning for meetings for mentors, dates for feedbacks, plans for work on your product
( [ referring back to sculpture example ] e.g Sep 13: Decide on materials for the bowl), and more.
When writing your plans, this includes DUE DATE/DEADLINE, STARTING DATE, AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN THAT DAY.