Core Competency communication
1. The ways I communicate at school differ from how I communicate in soccer. Soccer is my favourite sport and I am quite good at it. I have earned a lot of respect from others through the sport and made many friends. At my soccer practices and games I am a leader and I communicate with every single person on the field. I am also one of the youngest players on my team but that doesn’t stop me from being confident and communicate well with everyone. At school I am still confident but I don’t communicate as much. I find school doesn’t need the same communication that soccer does so I don’t try to force it. When communication is needed, for example, in a group setting, I step up and try to get everyone talking. The main difference is more communication is needed in my sport so thats why we communicate differently and more often.
2. Examples of where I can communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in my work when I relate to something. If I am writing an english paper that is about something I had just learned or something I don’t know much about; it is hard for me to communicate purposefully because I don’t connect to this topic or information given. If I have freedom in what I am going to write, I become much more creative, and confident in my writing. An in class example of this would be when we had writing assignments to do with the Indian horse book, I got a lower mark and felt like it was hard to write about it. It was also hard to make my writing interesting. Whereas when we had an assignment where we wrote our own short story about anything we wanted, I received a better grade, I felt more confident in my writing ability, and lastly I connected to the story and it was clear.
