On another note...

I have finished all the learning I can do on the QAIC course, I now only have a couple of exams and a 40 Minute presentation to do...

Our syndicate managed to get through a rough copy of our 40 minute presentation this weekend, which went relatively well considering what we had done.

Also on this weekend we completed all of our Teamworking and Leadership modules which involved us being assessed on how well we would assess a team doing a small exercise... An assessment of an assessor by an assessor assessing... This is getting al weird and Inception like now...

I'll end it here.
Peace out.

ILM Booklet Woes

The ILM Booklet proved harder to fill in than first anticipated, I ended up staying up until 2am on Sunday just so I could hand it in completed... This was partly my fault for watching a film with some other QAI's that finished at midnight...

Anyway its finished now and handed in so fingers crossed!

Guess who forgot to put a title first time... -->This is the MARCH PDP!<--

Well after a period of time where i wasn't feeling good about myself its time for another PDP,
So here goes...

Personal Development plan review

Name:  Samuel Spencer                      

Date:    23/03/11

New Academic Qualifications

I recieved a letter saying that my BTEC in Public Services workbook has now been marked by the invigilator at a Distinction grade, Hopefully now after she sends that off I shall have a certificate in the post soon!

I have also been accepted to take the Award in ILM, Which is an award for Teamworking and Management (ILM standing for Institute of Leadership and Management) Which I have to fill in a booklet for which I have to do for next weekend which seems easy enough to achieve...

                   Notes:

Verbal Communication in a Group can stay at a 4 as not much of this has been done in the last few weeks. I am writing technical reports so this will improve so this can go up to a 3. My Time Management has near enough stayed as it was with deadlines still  being met and other work handed in also. My Presentation skills have maintained at a 5 as I think I am fully competent now of making a presentation and showing it to others including large groups especially since last QAI wekkend I had to do a 15 Minute presentation, in a group of 4, in front of about 30 People, about 'The use of Air Power in the Asymettric Environment' which to be quite honest, isn't that easy a subject to research... But I managed to talk for about 5 minutes on my topic so I think this went well!

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Verbal Communication in Front of a Group	4	Be more active in class discussions.
Technical Reports	3	Learn to write technical reports and build on that.
Time Management	4	Ensure coursework deadlines are met
Presentation skills	5	Make better presentations and organise my work more.

Old Targets:

Target	By when
Become A QAI	April ‘11
Learn to Drive	May ‘11
Get Promoted at ATC	March ‘11
PASS EXAMS!	July ‘11

Comments:

Becoming a QAI is on the brink of completion now with all Learning completed with just another weekend of Leadership tests and a week long assessment inc. visits to various Aerospace operation platforms including Warton Aerodrome, which is where all current services and future aircraft are tested. I also have to complete the 1500 word report for next weekend which shouldn't be a problem. I feel pretty confident about this.

Learning to Drive is still improving with much more practice and now I actually have my own car! The paperwork saying it is now in my name came through about middle of last week so now I just have to pay for insurance, which as a 17 year old Male is going to be quite a big number... But otherwise my lessons are going along nicely. Also I am planning on booking a theory test soon...

Getting promoted at ATC seems to be getting closer as my CWO, who is also a close friend of mine had a short talk including lots of 'Hints' on what I could do... This conversation was such a good conversation! She definetly got the point across as I have now created two 12 week lesson plans which she will be using soon.

Pass Exams I am still not able to do this as I don't organise the exam times or dates...

So targets can remain as Follows:

Target	By when
Become A QAI	April ‘11
Learn to Drive	May ‘11
Get Promoted at ATC	June ‘11
PASS EXAMS!	July ‘11

And the dates are still in chronological order!

Marvellous! 

February Half Term Blog

After a spate of illness lasting the last week and after a week Trip to New York City, Its time for a serious catch up in work quantity and quality starting with a new, February Half Term PDP, updating it up to todays standard.

So here goes...

Personal Development plan review

Name:  Samuel Spencer                      

Date:    16/02/11

No New Academic Qualifications

                   Notes:

Verbal Communication in a Group has improved with more group conversations and brainstorming sessions so this can stay at a 4. I am beginning to write technical reports so this will be improving recently so this can go up to a 2. My Time Management has near enough stayed as it was with deadlines still  being met and other work handed in also. My Presentation skills have improved to a 5 as I think I am fully competent now of making a presentation and showing it to others including large groups.

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Verbal Communication in Front of a Group	4	Be more active in class discussions.
Technical Reports	2	Learn to write technical reports and build on that.
Time Management	4	Ensure coursework deadlines are met
Presentation skills	5	Make better presentations and organise my work more.

Old Targets:

Target	By when
Become A QAI	April ‘11
Learn to Drive	May ‘11
Get Promoted at ATC	March ‘11
PASS EXAMS!	July ‘11

Comments:

Becoming a QAI is coming ever closer after the weekend missed in November due to heavy snowfall, I only now have to catch up on one weekend which has been sceduled early April, but other than that only 3 weekends left so i'm more than halfway towards that, I just need to write a 2000 word report on a subject of my choice out of a list of 7 given topics, and I need to learn to Juggle, This is to show that I am capable of improvement and able to learn through teaching methods (Long story behind this, which I won't go into now)

 

Learning to Drive is proving taxing at the moment as my instructor has cancelled 3 lessons over the past 3 weeks (One week being my trip to New York) meaning I have had a three week period between lessons which isn't very beneficial to me so I have had to change Instructors and so far am getting along nicely with them.

 

Getting promoted at ATC seems to be getting ever so far away after recent January Promotions where someone else was promoted instead of me (Even though they didn't deserve it...) Purely because of a personality clash between me and one of the staff... Because apparently it works like this: Uniform > Experience. And to be honest, which is more beneficial to newer cadets? Teaching valuable information to cadets or just having their uniform nice... Another factor in this is my CO who won't take any ideas into account or listen to any reasoning, including showing me why he promoted the other benefactor by showing me three lists of names (Which evidently were old considering one of the ranks on this list hadn't been used since September...) And these lists, to be honest looked like a child had found the MS Word templates and made it in three minutes but... Rant over about that, i'm just a little bit bitter is all, Therefore i'm moving this date back to June '11...

 

Pass Exams I am still not able to do this as I don't organise the exam times or dates...

 

So New targets are as Follows:

 

Target	By when
Become A QAI	April ‘11
Learn to Drive	May ‘11
Get Promoted at ATC	June ‘11
PASS EXAMS!	July ‘11

And Now the dates are in Chronological order!

So ending on that high note, see you next Half-Term,

 

Peace Out!

Pizza Delivery Assignment - Teamworking

Today I have started my Pizza Delivery Assignment for the Programming side of the course, This required me to work in a group of three so I will now talk about how that experience was and what interpersonal skills I used.

After being set in groups it was a slow start, with new people to work with it was awkward to get started. We got over this by the end by producing good ideas together and by communicating well to each other.
I personally feel that we all contributed near enough equally all posing valid ideas and stable arguements/agreements.
Some points where argued over what would be better which would result in choosing the best and easiest idea to reproduce.
Creating ideas was rather easy but communicating started slowly, eventually climaxing in a steady flow of fresh ideas and new concepts which was very good for my interpersonal skills.
I can see this become a very good project indeed, especially with the amount of team interaction shown towards the end, and also with all the valid ideas used.

This shows the interpersonal skills I have used today.

Happy New Year!

Just a small post to say that it was my Birthday on the 1st of January meaning I am now 17, This means I can now start towards one of my targets of Learning to Drive. First Lesson saturday. Can't wait. :)