Creative Thinking
One of my strengths that I have developed throughout this school year is creative thinking. When creating my ideas I try to build off of my peers’ ideas to create a unique and different idea. An example of my creative thinking includes projects/assignments I’ve done in the series of my classes. For instance, I designed an inquiry in math about a problem/event that is going on in the world that interests me and creating a deep-thinking question to answer using statistics like graphs and pictures. During this time, many of my peers were doing their projects on wildfires, poverty, inflation, mental health etc. As a result, I built off of the ideas that were brainstormed, and I thought to myself “what is something that none of my classmates have thought of?” Suddenly the thought of the Covid-19 pandemic came to mind. In addition, I also believe I demonstrate this competency in foods class. In this class, we do different labs where we can design a type of food. This means we can customize what we put into it, how we cook it, how we present it etc. I believe this shows my creative thinking because I can contribute all my ideas and others to then combine everything into one. A final example i think i demonstrated this competency is my business & marketing class. in this class i created my own food truck. i used creative thinking for this while designing my truck. for example, designing the menu, design on the exterior, target market, and how I advertise.
Communication
This second competency is both a strength and a stretch that I think I have worked on to improve and developed through this year. A form of communication I’m proud of is my food philosophy I worked on in my foods class as well. This assignment is something that I worked on about my cultural identity and food. In this philosophy, I would want someone to notice how it communicates about Filipino food and how it extinguishes between other cultural foods (differences, similarities etc.) during the start of this year, I didn’t really step out of my comfort zone to contribute to class discussions because I wasn’t very familiar with this environment; however, I think I show growth in communication specifically my social studies class. Mostly, but not often I step out of my comfort zone and contribute my answer or idea to the class. Not only do I do this to step out of my comfort zone, but I also encourage myself do it, so my classmates can see that they’re able to step out of their zone too.