Reflection assignment 1

Reflection is vital in life to enhance one’s learning. As the saying goes, lifelong learning. We have to reflect everything we did and learn from our mistakes in order to improve ourselves.

I have enrolled in South Australian Matriculation (SAM) and have taken five subjects, which are Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and ESL. SAM focuses on assignments and projects, which has trained me well in researching, analyzing and solving problems. These subjects have given me the foundation in science and helped me in thinking reasonably, identifying errors and come up with solutions. I did the assignments by starting it far before the deadline because I know that work cannot be done well in last minute. Other than that, I have been chosen to be the president of dance club in college this year. I conducted many meetings and communicated with my board of directors. Communication is a very important skill that everyone needs to have so that everything can be done well. Moreover, it is very important as communication is a direct way that leads to unity as the saying goes, together is power.

This year is the year to prepare to go on a university. Hence it is not easy. I have met some problems in assignments. Firstly, the issue investigation of each subject took a long time for me to think of the title. It is mainly because of my passionate in each subject. Luckily, I was heped by many teachers and my hardships are overcome. Secondly, the time for assignments, studies and extracurricular activities is hard to balance. As a president of dance club, I conducted meetings before the day of an event. The hardships I met were the way to communicate with team mates and to cooperate with them. Moreover, I found my confidence to bring a team to achieve goal as team members would not follow a leader with low self-esteem and lack of direction.

During the year in college, I have learnt to find my passion in each subject so that I can generate more ideas when writing a report because passion is important as it can give one motivation. As SAM does not only focus on assignments but also studies, I learnt to make a time table for myself. Thus I have self-discipline and good time management. I have learnt a lesson by making back up for every update of my assignments. I lost my pen drive before submitting my lab report this year. This experience told me to do back up every time. Moreover, I have learnt to become a good team leader by organizing events and taking care a team in my high school and I brought these abilities to college. I sharpen my leadership skills by being a president of dance club. I learnt to gain more self-confidence and never give up of myself by always believing that I can bring my house to achieve goal. I communicate and work hard in team at the starting of the year. However, all the events can be run out smoothly after these hardships are overcome.

I have learnt to have a good time management, communication and study independently. I have sharpened my interpersonal and intrapersonal skills throughout the year of enrolling in SAM in college. This year have taught me a lot about the way to write a good report by doing citations. I will apply what I have learnt this year in my future.

TGC Activity	Discipline Specific Knowledge	Lifelong Learning	Thinking and Problem Solving Skills	Communication Skills	Interpersonal Skills	Intrapersonal Skills	Citizenship and Global Perspectives	Digital Literacy
Studies	Good time management	Learn independently	Think logically	Communicate well with teachers and students	Listening to teachers	Independent study	Did my own work in groups and able to work in team.	Usage of technologies in researches
Extracurricular activities (Dance Club)	Good time management and self-discipline to balance time of studies	Develop leadership skills	Think analytically and come up with effective solutions	Communicate in working distribution	Leadership	Communication of feelings	Put the maximum effort by being a team leader. I bring the team to achieve goal.	Typing meeting minutes and reports
Class Activities or Competitions	Manage my time other than studies to gain experience that able to apply in future	Learnt that unity is power. Togetherness means everything and work can be done in a short time	Think logically and analytically so that solutions can come up	Communicate well with team members	Tolerance and acceptance of difference	Relationship to others based on sense of self	Cooperate with others	Research and learning through videos

Reflection assignment 2

In these few days of MPU, it is all about personal development. We learn about the basic of manners, goal setting, importance of own personalities and so on. It helps us in identify our own problems, come up with solutions, improve ourselves and change ourselves to be better.

During the first day, we were taught about the simple rules that everyone should know at first. For an example, respect teacher during class and not coming late to class. It is because if one comes late to class, the students will be distracted. Then we were exposed to the word ‘Reflection’. This word is important to use on ourselves in our daily life. I learnt to reflect what I did about the past and improve myself in the future. I am assigned to find out that what I have learnt in the past by analyzing the skills developed, such as interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills and so on.

The second day, I learnt about SWOT. This helped me to address my strength and weaknesses. It comes up with opportunities and threats too. This reminds me to improve myself by finding out my weaknesses and keeping up my strength. By finding out my weaknesses, I can only able to improve so that I can be better in future no matter in the life of university or work. It is vital for us in study and working.

The third day, I learnt about the importance of goal setting. After setting a goal, we can only work on it to achieve it. Without a goal, we will be lost and do anything without purposes. Thus goal setting is vital for everyone to achieve success. We have to be determined and positive-minded in order to achieve the goal. Also, we have to use our time wisely and do something meaningful by not wasting time.

In short, I learnt a lot to reflect myself, know more on my abilities and goal-setting. These have given me the chance to know my weakness and to improve myself.

SWOT analysis

Strengths	Weakness
Hardworking Responsible Problem solver	Think negatively Lack of self confidence Cannot accept failure Improvements: -       Positive mind -       Learn to die a thousand deaths by picking up myself and start all over again -       Be brave
Opportunities	Threats
Public speaking Scholarship Internship I could improve my performance by doing my best in everything. I will do work wholeheartedly.	Facing challenges Nervous on stage No encore of people and cannot practice My competitors keep improving themselves by sharpen their skills in daily life throughout social activities or classes in college.

Goal to achieve:

I will develop more on my interest in science and take part in more activities including social activities, academics and so on. I will improve my reading, writing and listening skills throughout my daily life and spend much time to have a reading every day. Hence I hope to achieve my goal to study in UK and be a good pharmacist in future.