During the lab, I expressed critical thinking through examination and analyzation to perceive parts of the organizing I would be dissecting. My partner and I were given details to examine the diagram in our booklets, which we both utilized greatly. Through examination, I was able to use my critical thinking skills to identify, label and match the explicit organs and their characteristics. While dissecting and cutting, we were precise with our accuracy enough to prevent any form of deterioration amongst the worm’s tissue unintended.
Collaboration
I was quickly able to establish collaboration with my partner. Splitting our roles, me and them switched between doing the prodding, poking and pulling whilst the other would write. cleaning up, she was the one who would wash our materials. I tended to cleaning up and putting away the worm. we were effectively able to label, criticize and identify our ideas and thoughts of the worm. I helped my partner when it came to identifying the parts, and she helped to placement and cutting of the fragile worm parts.
I believe I will be able to Communicate by thinking better this year via getting to know my accomplices in my classes. I believe we can get along better through working together as a team and finding things that can help us click together better as friends.
I will be able to use Self-Determination by reading over assignments and studies when needed, making sure I have everything in place for either an upcoming test or project. I can also utilize this when working with peers as we can both put our minds together on a collective goal.
I can regulate myself and wellbeing through consistent moderation. I can achieve this by setting times and schedules for when I’ll study or do homework. when I do not have any homework OR studying to do, I can find peace in going for long walks and taking my time easy. this way, I may clear my mind better than always staring at a screen.
A great example of how my learning influenced my work would be through sole creation of the dish itself. For example, when me and my partner began our work on our cookies, we were quick to reread all the steps over as much as possible. I was quick to get our items together, and made sure to remain enthusiastic. Being energetic provides an example of being full of motivation, both to yourself and your peers. We were able to stay strictly on task, not doubting our work which could provide as another fundamental for why it turned out the way it did. Mixing our ingredients together, we made sure to reserve our extra care for balance and measurement. This can be shown with how evenly we softly rolled our dough to even shape. After adding a pinch of flour on top and placing them in the oven, the crumble cookies looked and tasted to our likings.
The recipe turned out successfully, with each bite being enjoyable at very worst. It is best to try these treats with your immediate family, however sharing it amongst friends wouldn’t hurt. As long as someone is there to enjoy the made dish, that is all that matters.
Core competencies
I find that the ways I communicate while cooking differ from how I communicate in my food studies class are shown to differentiate heavily when I am in another group, such as Track & Field. I find that when I’m in my foods class, it is less of a physical exercise on your body and more of a mental one. While with Track, you must put focus into skill for running, it is almost night and day with how much effort you need to put into focusing your accuracy between each ingredient. One thing that I’ll say I find similar though, is how both may allow teamwork to help you reach your goal better.
Whenever me and my groupmates are unsure of what steps to take, I make sure to provide them with the information needed, allowing them to prevail while also giving them tips to make it possibly turn out more.
My main strategies for collecting important information may include highlighting the required text. It allows my eye to catch it immediately if i ever need to go back, and it almost burns a hole into my mind in a way that embeds it. Another strategy I might use is listening intently BEFORE writing the criteria down in my own words. This allows my mind to not only gather but translate given information, shuffling it in a way my brain can understand.
My main focus is communication. When the group isn’t working well together, it’s best to mold ideas to their liking as to provide an environment all of us can be sustained in. With our minds pitched together we usually end up making some of the most delectable treats in my opinion. It aways makes me proud to see the improvement we can make as a group when we take these steps.
My Goal
I would like to work more on my active listening. I find that I already do fine in this field, however lately i believe that I get carried away easily in my own thoughts. A prime goal I have is to stay on track more. A way that I believe this could be done is through a more active and repetitive sleep schedule. Other than that, I am quite confident in my abilities.
A project that we have done that I am incredibly proud of would have to be the project that was done on Solar Power. This group project was to make a presentation on a selected type of power generated through everyday sources. Having chosen solar power, I believe that the four of us in the group did a remarkable job on our scripts and writing down details.
Communication
I believe that I have used the Communication Core Competency, which was exercised when I helped to bring the group together to work on our project. Our group talked a excessively together, and we all pitched in ideas for what we could add to our project on solar power, combining our knowledge to into something more useful. When the project was finally coming to an end, me and one of my other work partners even exercised some of our Creative Thinking on putting the slides together with colorful and eye-catching designs.
