After reflecting my growth through this semester, I demonstrated the following core competencies, Communication, creative thinking, & personal and social skills. In French 10, we created a French skit taking place in a café/restaurant where we had to show what it was like to order in a francophone setting. This was a great demonstration of communication because I was able to express what I wanted to order in another language, exchange words (have mini conversations in French successfully), and effectively do this while recording the whole process. In addition, I can talk to my peers about what I did/am going to do on the weekend, what I like/to do etc. in French when we do our P-P-P oral activity in the morning. Secondly, in Studio arts 3D we have currently made an abundance of hands-on projects including statues out of foam blocks, clay, and chopsticks. This was an accurate example of creative thinking and critical thinking. For example, I made the character “Branch” from Trolls out of foam blocks. This was very challenging for me which encouraged me try to use critical thinking instead of giving up; as a result, I created solutions when I came across problems, I created the design that wasn’t easy but was able to make me try harder, and I asked for help from the teacher when I needed it. When I created a piece using chopsticks by gluing them together. I showed my creative thinking because I was able to create a project without many instructions, I made it look interesting by mixing colors etc. Finally, in CLE 10, I demonstrated positive personal and cultural identity from a work life balance project. In this project, I created how I would see myself in 20 years (what would my occupation be, do I have a partner, kids, own a business etc.) this demonstrates this competency because I know my personal values and great at making choices which means I can build a successful life for myself based on what I want and knowing who I am. To conclude, I have shown a lot of growth from the beginning of the semester to now.
Category: Self-Assessment
Core Competencies
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.