I have recently done a presentation on connecting media and psychological disorders, I believe that communication and thinking competency have been demonstrated. Through the presentation, I have increased my collaborating and communicating skills, I take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share. My audience and I shared our presentations with each other and tried to give out comments on others’ presentations. I think it is a pretty good way to do small-group presentations because we feel less pressure and are willing to share more ideas. In this presentation, I ask and respond to questions to learn to become an active, supportive listener. 

Also, while I am working on my presentation, I have increased my creative thinking. I can form new ideas to create new things and try to make the connection between art pieces and psychological disorders. I am glad that I have a chance to share about this artist’s art. It is a meaningful project, that gives me a chance to do more research about the connection between media and psychological disorders. 

My group mates and I have recently done the monopoly assignment, I have improved my social and communication competency. I have increased my social awareness and responsibility, through the monopoly assignment have learned many kinds of social physiology effects, bias. I can identify how my action affect the community or environment and I can make positive change. I have learned 7 types of social psychology and knew that our behaviour are deeply linked with the social. In the future, I hope that I can be a respectful person and decrease someone’s social influence. 

On the other hand, We work as a group and achieve the same goal. I am glad that we got full marks in this assignment. It is a fun project, my groupmates and I have got a chance to do more research about social psychology. 

After finishing the research assignment, I improved my communication and thinking competency. I work with others to achieve a goal. My groupmates and I have to do a research assignment about more sleeping hours affect high school students’ GPAs positively. During the process my teammates and I need to have a close discussion to get the same opinion, we respect and listen to each other’s opinions. We worked together at the weekend, and we all put our efforts into the project. Even though we do not text each other, we left messages in the word document and everyone takes turns doing it at different times. This makes me feel like we are really a team and we are working together to achieve the same goal.

For thinking competence, I can analyze evidence to make judgments. During the research assignment, we received lots of answers from different students in different grades for our survey. In order to get the result of our research, we need to analyze those data and put them in different groups. The evidence I have got helps me to make up a conclusion that sleeping hours do not affect high school students’ GPAs positively.

The Novel

About the book

“The war between the classes” is a book written by Gloria Miklowitz, telling a story which happened in a social studies class. All of the students got to experience great social experience that even changed many of the characters. We spent the first 20 minutes of the class to read the novel for two weeks then we started to do some test, class write and project for the novel. 

Core Competency Reflection

Communicating 

I can understand and share information about a topic of interest in a clear, organized way. In the novel study class write, we are asked to provide lots of our own ideas and reflections. During the writing, I learned how to share my ideas mixed with the example on the novel in a clear way. 

Critical and Reflective Thinking

I can reflect on my thinking. In the novel project, I chose to do a journal for one of the main character and I need to stand in his position and go through those changes with him. That made me have a chance to reflect on my thinking too. 

Creative Thinking

I can form new ideas to create new things. I can also build on the ideas of others. As I said I chose to do a journal for one main character, I am asked for discover more of his inner thoughts, that give me a chance to understand Adam and create more scenes that are out of the book. 

Personal Awareness and Responsibility

I can work to inform myself about issues surrounding me. The main idea of this novel is to share the idea that ‘We should not have prejudice to others, we are all the same.’ I have learned a lot from this novel with the issues that are surrounding this society and me. 

Goal :

 I can identify my strengths and identify my potential.
I haven’t discovered any aspects of myself that are better than others, and I haven’t felt that I have the ability and potential.  I hope one day I can discover what makes me different