Math Self Assessment – Raffi

Core Competency Reflection:

By explaining my groupwork to peers in the classroom, I make a positive difference to my peers. If somebody doesn’t understand a concept, or how to do a question, I always try and explain it to them. When doing groupwork I am able to show my work as an example.

The way I communicate at school differs from how I communicate at soccer practice. The biggest difference between how I communicate at school vs at practice is that I am more blunt and hard on people at practice. Since I am familiar with all my teammates, and I take on a “Team Captain” role, I try to push them harder than I would to classmates at school.

When I need to refocus on a task, I set myself a challenge. For example, if there is 20 minutes left in class to finish our homework, and I have been unfocused, I try and see how many questions can I get done in 10 minutes. I end up focusing and getting into a rhythm, which lets me focus for the full 20 minutes.

Some of the ways I work to maintain relationships are: communication and honesty. I try to have clear communication that goes both ways in any sort of relationship that I am in. If somebody does something that upsets me, I’ll tell them straight up, and I try to be a person who invites other people to tell me when I do something that upsets them. Honesty is also key, because lying to people, or talking about them behind their back is bound to cause trouble.

English 9 Final Reflection

Artifact

This is the file of my persuasive essay I wrote on why philosophy should be taught in high school.

Curricular Competency

In this assignment, I was able to develop my speaking and communication skills. I had to present this essay in front of the class, and I think I did well. I practiced the speech until I had it memorized, and I was able to deliver it. The more I practiced my speech the more confident I got. This helped me grow my communication skills.

Core Competency

During this assignment, I grew in the thinking core competency. To be more specific I improved in the critical thinking competency. When I was writing my speech, I was brainstorming ways to make philosophy appeal to my peers. Once I had finished brainstorming, I came up with the idea that students didn’t like topics that required memorization, and philosophy has 0 memorization in the course. Now that I had my point, I had to find a way to prove it. Again I had to brainstorm, and I thought of doing a poll. A poll would’ve been great, but I didn’t want to bother people in my class, so I thought of doing it online. This turned out to be a huge success, and is how I used critical thinking to solve my problems.