You will be engaging in self-assessment of the Core Competencies throughout the school year. To assist in your self-assessment posts, Ms. Hothi and some of the Tech Leadership students have put together guiding links and visual and video instructions on Core Competency Self-Assessment below.
Thinking Competency
Tag: #ThinkingCC
Sub-Competencies of Thinking: Critical and Reflective Thinking & Creative thinking
Below are the Thinking prompts to guide your self-assessment.
Critical and Reflective Thinking
I can statements:
- I can analyze evidence to make judgements.
- I can reflect on my thinking.
- I can analyze my own beliefs and consider views that do not fit with them.
- I can ask open-ended questions to gather information.
- I consider more than one way to proceed in an investigation.
- I can tell the difference between facts and opinions.
- I can give, receive and act on feedback to progress in my goals.
Prompts:
- Topics or concepts for which I can offer detailed feedback or analysis include…
- I use evidence to make judgements or decisions as demonstrated in this…
- I seek, develop and weigh options as demonstrated by…
- I used to think…and now I know…because I … (explored…, gathered other perspectives, learned about…)
- I can describe how … (this thing I learned at school) relates to this experience I had where…
- I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is…
- Others find my feedback useful because I…
- I remain open minded as I explore viable options or alternative approaches, like when I…
- I compile and synthesize information to draw reasoned conclusions, such as when…
- When I place my work / thinking in a broader context, I can describe implications and/or next steps. For example…
Creative Thinking
I can statements:
- I can form new ideas to create new things. I can also build on the ideas of others.
- I can get ideas when I use my five senses to explore or when I pursue my interests.
- I can deliberately learn about things that interest me, and new ideas pop into my head.
- I can develop a body of creative work over time.
- I can persevere over time to develop my ideas, and I expect setbacks and failure, but use that to develop my ideas.
Prompts:
- One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is…
- An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is…
- An example of something I have spent a lot of time learning about is…
- Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are…
- When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I …. to help calm myself or create space in my mind to…
- An example of where I took a significant risk in my thinking or the expected process was when…
- When faced with ambiguity or setbacks, I… to advance the development of my ideas.
- An example of an idea I developed that was new to my peers is…
- This______ is innovative and useful to my community because…
- An area of study in which I feel confident to regularly challenge assumptions and develop new ideas is in…
- I am so curious about … that I am excited to learn more about how I could… to make it even better.
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