Suraj Giddha June 7,2013
Active Learning Final Blog
This has been a very productive and fun school year so far in Active Learning. At the start of this year I was a good athlete but I had problems with long distance running, exercising at home, and eating healthy. As this year started it was my goal to improve my cardio-vascular system and to start eating healthier. As the school year went on I started to change and slowly and I saw a new and better self arising.
When the school year started I only had one thing on my mind becoming more fit and making the basketball team. I knew that in order to make the basketball team I would have to have a much better endurance/stamina. From the first day of Active learning I have been respectful to everyone, willing to participate in all activities and ready to try my best in every class.
In the first few classes of Active learning I quickly noticed that on one hand I was a very good short distance runner but on the other a very bad long distance runner. On the day of my first community run I tried my best not to stop but I was forced to stop numerous times and had trouble keeping a constant pace and on my first beep test I could only get 8.3. I noticed that I was bad at long distance activities but very good at activities such as the pond run, insanity, A/B partner activities and trifecta. But as the year went on I started to get better and managed to make the basketball team. With the help of Active Learning and me joining the basketball team I was able to see improvements in myself such as I got 9.3 on the beep test (thats is a one level improvement in two or three months). I was very happy as I could slowly see my hard work and determination pay off. Now I could do the community run with stopping only 4 times.
Not only was I improving I was also participating in all activities, trying hard to accomplish my goals, showing respect to others, encouraging fair play, but also being responsible as I had never even forgot my gymstrip once. But as the basketball season ended I managed to hurt myself during a basket ball game preventing me to partcipate in a few classes and in order to heal this injury on my foot I had to take physical activity a bit lighter. But after my injury had healed I started to collect digital evidense. I had trouble collecting digital evidense because I didn't have a cell phone or anyy other device at school that coould capture digital evidense. In order to solve this problem I had to ask my friends and classmates to take pictures of me but they were not always willing to do this and were not able to take many pictures as I asked them to.
Before I knew it the school year was creeping to the end. By the end of the school year I had learned about pacing and could now do long distance runs. I tried to take a leadership role in my class and help set up and putaway equipment and most importantly I found out a way that I could make exercise fun because I noticed that most teenagers don't want to go home and go for long runs to improve their cardio-vascular system but instead I play sports with my siblings and friends to get my daily exercise done. I have tried eating healthy by eating atleast one fruit a day as my family has a variety of fruits at home I have a lot to chose from and this way I will get my nutritional food everyday. I
have also managed to keep my work organized in a binder so I can
record any improvements or what my goals are.
I feel like I deserved an, A in this class for my effort and improvement. For example at the start of the year my beep test score was 8.3 then it improved to 9.3 and my score finished off with 10.2. At the start of the semester I could barely do one lap without stoping and now I have improved to five. MyT-test scores have also improved by a second and I have also seen my
imporvementin the body bridge, body press and sit and reach levels. I haven't
even forgotten my gymstrip once and very rarily have been absent to class.
This was one of themost improving years for me in Active Learning and I am
looking Forward to next year and still have the urge to improve and do better.
