A.
My topic is All Star Cheerleading because cheerleading is something I have been involved in since a young age, I'm very passionate about it, and I feel that people have a lot of misconceptions about it. For a long time society has had stereotypes about cheerleaders and it hasn't been considered a serious sport. People don't understand how hard cheer really is, the amount of work you have to put into it, the blood, sweat, and tears shed over it. I'm not too sure what I'm specifically going to focus on within All Star cheerleading, but I'm leaning towards something involving choreography since it's something I enjoy learning, teaching, and it's something I excel at. I've already set up a date to talk with the head director of my gym to help me determine exactly what I want to focus my topic on.
B.
I-Poly Citizen: This year, I'm not going to procrastinate. I've honestly gotten better at not doing it these last few years and I'm going to make sure I don't kill myself this last year and I have time to enjoy life and be a senior. I'm going to make sure all of my senior project components are done and turned in on time, that I coach once a week, go to every practice and know I'm the only person to blame if anything falls through in my project. I'm going to keep a very open mind and a positive attitude about anything that gets thrown my way in the project or in cheer while also encouraging my peers to do so. This in turn will help me to become a better citizen of the I-Poly community.
Effective Communicator: This year I'm going to be more receptive to feedback and opinions on my senior project since, like I mentioned before, cheer is a group effort. Although I can give my opinion over and over again about this and about that, cheer is looked at differently from different people, and I'm going to use my team and my coaches and the kids I coach as much as I can to give the most consensual, unbiased, fact based answers for my senior project. These are the reasons I will become a more effective learner, especially since I struggle in this area.
Effective Learner: Since cheer is a team sport and we rely on each other all of the time, much like everything we do at I-Poly, I'm going to take advantage of the fact that my senior project is a solo project and I'm going to try to personalize it as much as possible. I'm also going to gain as much knowledge as I can from my coaches not only on a team-based level but as an independent cheerleader to ensure I can relay all the aspects of the sport to the best of my ability in my project. This is how I'm going use the distinctness of cheer and my personality in my senior project to be a more effective learner.
Effective User of Technology: I plan to look up most of my research on the internet this year. Since there aren't many nonfiction books on cheerleading, and more specifically all star cheerleading, most of my research will be either from lectures, interviews, or internet articles. There's only one or two cheer magazines I know of. Since I'm going to be on the internet so much I plan on learning how to sift through research quickly and efficiently, being able to pull stuff that's useful and leave stuff that isn't. In addition, I'm going to have to learn how to customize my blog and use excel and many other computer programs to create spreadsheets and handouts for my senior project. This will make me a more effective user of technology.
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