Category Archives: Core Competencies

Personal Awareness and Responsibility: How I manage school-related stress

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Some of the things I do to stay mentally and physically healthy include: playing soccer, walking home and spending time outside.

I can prevent some school-related stress by making sure that I keep up with or get ahead for my school work. If I am prepared, in my eyes there is no reason for me to be stressed.

When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I walk around the area I’m working at, focus on breathing, pray or listen to some music.

When I make mistakes, I don’t beat myself up. Instead I try and figure out what I did wrong, then make an effort to get better at that in my classes/when I do the thing I messed up on again.

English First People’s 11 Core Competencies

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Artifact

My comparison essay discussing the differences and similarities between Charlie and Ray was a good example of how my thinking and ability to support my thinking increased throughout the semester

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Core Competency

Critical and Reflective Thinking: I can analyze evidence to make judgements.

I have demonstrated the “Thinking” competency in this artifact when I had to compare and contrast the characters, Charlie and Ray, from the two different stories. To do this I considered the evidence. What did they say to different people and about different issues. How did they act towards different people. How did they change throughout their respective stories and why did that change happen. By asking these questions I was able to figure out how Charlie and Ray were similar and how they were different.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

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Thinking Competency

I used the Thinking Competency, and more specifically the critical and reflective thinking part of this competency during and after our Cell Membrane diffusion lab.

During the lab I made a hypothesis about which molecules would diffuse. To make a good educated guess I had to critically think about which molecules in the solutions were big and not likely to fit through the microscopic holes in the semi-permeable membrane.

After the lab I had to think reflectively to make my conclusion. I reflected on what could have been done better in the lab, any changes we could make in the lab and anything that could make the lab more effective in helping me understand different mathematical applications to the principals of diffusion in the lab. I also thought critically to provide and explain the points that supported and did not support the hypotheses that I made.

Critical and Reflective Thinking Core Competency

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Critical and Reflective Thinking

Our criminal justice system should be more punitive. I think that it should especially make people do more community service. People commit crimes maybe because they don’t have enough money or don’t have another option available to them. If you make punishments for crimes larger, then you would discourage people from doing crimes and make people more thoughtful and careful when they’re living.

Rehabilitation is also important though and if you don’t give people skills for life, then they have a higher chance of committing a crime because they know how to do it, and increasing the punishment would be in vain.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements – In this assignment, I looked at the pros and cons of making our criminal justice system more punitive or rehabilitative. I was able to make a judgement on which we needed to do.

CPR Reflection

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My learning of CPR

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CPR Reflection

A) I didn’t know the how do do CPR, I’d also have never guessed that we’d have a specific timing for the chest compressions.

B) The key takeaway of the CPR unit is that now we know how to do CPR and could possibly save someone’s life.

C) During this unit we learned about which foods to eat to try and prevent getting a heart attack. This relates to the nutrition unit because in the nutrition unit we learned about which foods were good/bad for our heart.

Core Competency Reflection

One of the ways I can see using this learning to help others is by using this knowledge to save someone’s life, or to tell others about warning signs so they could know when someone else is in danger and they need to call 911

One of the ways I ensure my group is clear on what we are supposed to do is to listen to the instructions and ask if anything was confusing.

One lesson that stimulated my thinking about the importance of CPR was when we learned that CPR could happen to anyone at anytime if you’re unlucky enough, which is kind of scary. Also, this made me realize that although my Grandparents are healthy, they’re at risk of having a heart attack, so knowing CPR might come in handy, but I hope it doesn’t.

Core-Competency Self Assessment

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I can analyze evidence to make judgements

To organize the different buttons into a dichotomous key you need to analyze what differing features there are in the different buttons, and then see which features you should group together, or which features to separate. The whole activity was just analyzing evidence to make judgments.

Short Story Writing Process

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My Story

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Core Competency Reflection

An example of something I have spent a lot of time learning about is the different parts of a story. The Introduction, Initiating Incident, Rising Action, Climax and Denouement.

When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I write out and expand on some of the ideas that I had come up with to help create space and ideas in my mind which could help develop the story.

Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are I have learned to brainstorm better. Before I didn’t usually brainstorm, I would just try to write, and that didn’t work very well. Now first I think of many ideas before I try writing them.

Social Awareness and Responsibility

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My Texts

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Core Competency Reflection

How have your experiences, family history, heritage and/or peers helped shape who you are today

These things have pretty much everything to do with who I am today. These things made me think and change my initial ideas about many things. This makes me have to change how I act. Many of the choices in life I have to make because of these things.

How do you make good decisions

I make good decisions by deciding what would be best for me and other people. Also, by seeing what worked in past experiences and looking at how that could make my choices better. I also ask if it’s just an impulse or something that I should do.

Describe something that you really liked in the work you did. What made it special for you?

I really liked the combination of designs on the top part and the bottom part. On the top there’s the more blocky design that was inspired by the monarch butterfly. The bottom is inspired by another random butterfly that I don’t know the name of and a cantaloupe. I also like the triple smiley faces.

What makes you unique

What makes me unique is my experiences, family history, heritage and people I’ve met and been friends with. This makes me different because my memories are different and also, the way that these things have made me think and act differently than other people.

Act III Dialogue Collaborative Project

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The Script

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Following the Script Format

Instead of trying to write the script and format it later, Kalani and I wrote the script in the correct format. To do this we would consult the script format document for each different part we were doing. For example, when we were writing the title, date and act we checked with the example script to make sure that we had set it in the right spot on the page and had it properly bolded or underlined. We did that same thing for the rest of our script. It somewhat effected how we wrote the stage directions/script as well, because we chose to just write the script in the correct format we wrote, and chose how we were going to do the stage directions before we wrote the next thing that they were going to say.

Core Competency – Collaboration

I can work with others to achieve a goal.

During this project I worked with a partner to create a small section of script that sounded more modern. We both contributed ideas and wrote lines to create this script.

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

Instead of splitting up the work and working on the script ourselves, Kalani and I worked on the script together. I wrote lines, as well as gave ideas and gave my thoughts on the lines Kalani wrote.

I can encourage others to share their voices and value diverse perspectives.

When I came up with an idea for a line, I would check with Kalani before writing it down. I would also ask him if he wanted to add anything else to the line.

A Goal for Myself

I can apply constructive strategies to navigate misunderstandings and conflicts.

I am working on this goal because it is a useful skill to have in my life. There will always be misunderstandings and conflicts no matter where you are. If you are able to solve these then you and your team or group or family or set of office workers can work more efficiently and will be able to understand other’s point of view better.

To achieve this goal I will; communicate clearly, this will help remove any misunderstandings me and my peers may have, and I will try and look at both sides of the conflict, this will help in finding what the root of the conflict is and finding a solution for it.