Category Archives: Core Competencies

Connecting Media and Psychological Disorder Mind Map Reflection

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What are 3 core competencies that are demonstrated in your Connecting Media and Psychological Disorder Mind Map Assignment?

One of the core competencies that I’ve portrayed in this assignment is the Personal Awareness and Responsibilities section. I satisfy this by showing a sense of accomplishment and joy. I take pride in my work and myself. This assignment took me a longer time to finish than I expected it to take. Halfway through, I had times where I got tired of finishing it up and thought of handing it in without my best work in it. However, I was able to refocus and eventually finish it up. I am happy with my work and feel pride in my accomplishments.  

I show creative thinking in my assignments in the part where I deliberately learn about things that interest me, and new ideas pop into my head. For the assignment, we had to pick a media source that included psychological perspectives. I chose an intro video of a series of episodes that I enjoyed watching. Choosing a media source that I enjoyed watching helped me do the assignment with more enthusiasm and interest.  

I portray the critical and reflective thinking core competencies by analyzing evidence to make judgements. With the psychological perspective terms given, I was able to find factors in my media source that satisfied those perspectives.  

A & P 12 Core Competency

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This is a photo of the glucose tubing in the beaker full of solvent.

Communication CC

During the dialysis lab, communication played a great part in making the experiment successful. My partner and I had to work together to properly put in the glucose into the dialysis tubing and discuss different ways to make sure that the tubing was sealed properly so that it would not leak when it went into the beaker filled with water. As we were divided into two groups (starch group, glucose group), communication within the group was important to ensure that each person had the correct observations for the starch and glucose experiment. Sharing ideas and thoughts also played a big part as it led us to get a more accurate conclusion.  

Thinking CC

I had to critically and reflectively think to conclude our experiment. Based on the observations that we’ve got, we had to answer questions of whether the starch/glucose was diffusible through dialysis tubing. There was some uncertain evidence that got me confused, but with discussing and looking back through the observations with my groupmates, I was able to get better response for the question. Sharing ideas within the group absolutely helped as we gave feedback to each other and kept building upon each other’s ideas until we got an answer like response. One part that I would like to improve for next time is to more carefully record observations.  

Research Assignment Reflection

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“I take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share.”

For the research assignment, we were in groups to make a survey to find out if our hypothesis was accurate. For the survey, our team had to work together to make sample questions. Fortunately, we were able to come up with questions quite easily. After making the questions, we had to make a Microsoft Forms to get the results. With those results we made an Excel form and wrote our conclusion. With teamwork, we managed to finish this assignment without any problems. Thankfully, all our teammates were responsible and took part in the assignment. I was able to take my role in making the Excel Form by making the correlation to see whether our hypothesis was accurate or not. By using our time in class and working together, we were able to finish this assignment with our best effort.  

Where I’m From Essay

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My Paper

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The Writing Process

For this assignment, I had to interview a family member to learn about my family heritage. Interviewing somebody was very interesting because it was something that I’d never done before. I learned that by engaging with the interviewee, you can get more information and details about the subject. Coming up with different questions to ask was one of the challenges that I had for this essay. However, it wasn’t much of a problem because I ended up creating some questions as I was doing the interview; it was one of the parts that I enjoyed the most. During the interview, some of the stories sparked my interest and by asking more questions about the subject, I was able to get more information in detail for the essay. With my first draft, I remember struggling to use quotes in my essay. It was hard to find the right spot to use the proper quote. Transitions were also one of the parts that took me a long time to work on. But, by re-writing the essay each time after getting peer edits, I think my final draft improved compared to my first draft. The oral presentation was another obstacle to overcome. I always had a hard time talking in front of people, but I think I’m getting better as I do more. Interviewing somebody required more skills and responsibilities than I thought it would, but overall, I enjoyed doing this assignment.  

Core Competency Reflection

I show that I value feedback from others in my group by looking back at the peer edit sheets and trying my best to fix those parts that they pointed out. I added parts that they told me that I was missing and handed my draft in.  

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include coming up with questions before the interview and making notes on what they say. I asked more questions when I thought I needed more information about it and recorded the interview to make sure I could go back to it.  

When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I take some time to rest before focusing back. I was able to balance my work time and focus on tasks when I needed to. Taking enough time to rest was important because I was able to not make my brain too stressed and therefore, focus back on tasks to the best ability.  

Others find my feedback useful because I try my best to give them suggestions that will make their work better. Whenever I saw some parts with errors, I made comments on specifically what points might be better if they were changed. But I also pointed out the good parts of their essay and what parts stood out. I feel that they were useful because when my partner showed her work after editing, the points that I commented on were all fixed and were written better than the draft she had before.   

A goal that I would have myself going on would be to contribute to and work with criteria to improve my work because I easily forget to check the criteria before starting work and have missing parts in my assignments at the end. To improve this, I will carefully look at the criteria before moving on to anything and listen to the teacher whenever they give instructions. I’ll achieve this goal by showing evidence that I worked hard by including all the requirements from the criteria without missing anything.