Core Competency Reflection

Personal Awareness & Responsibility

Strengths:
• I am personally responsible, self-motivated, and can advocate for myself.
▫ I understand the tasks that must be done to meet my goals and I can independently
work on accomplishing them.
▫ Example: I went through high school and got accepted into UBC on my own because
my parents did not do school in Canada so they could not really guide me through it,
and I did not request assistance from my counselor.
• I can set goals, regulate my emotions, and persevere in difficult situations
▫ Example: I decided that my goal over quarantine would be to skip a year of high
school, and despite all of the stresses, I managed to skip Grade 11 and go straight
into Grade 12.
Needs improvement:
• I can express my needs and seek help when needed.
▫ I am hesitant to express my needs or seek help.

Social Responsibility

Strengths:
• I am aware of my community and environment and work independently and collaboratively
for the benefit of others.
▫ I do my best to protect the environment and to keep my community clean. I
properly dispose of trash and enjoy helping others.
• I value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for others, and act ethically in all my
interactions, including online.
▫ If I see someone being discriminated against, or I see a situation of oppression, I will
fight against it.
Needs improvement:
• I can identify and appreciate different perspectives on issues and use and evaluate strategies
to resolve problems.
▫ I will often reject other perspectives on issues if they do not align with mine.

Critical Thinking

Strengths:
• I can analyze and make defensible judgements, draw conclusions and consider a variety of
perspectives.
▫ I am quick to analyze a situation and draw a conclusion, but this judgement I make is
very hard to change, so I typically do not consider a variety of perspectives.
• I can ask good quality questions, gather relevant information, and come up with well-
developed conclusions.
▫ I participate in class and ask questions, do thorough research and create good
conclusions based on that research.
▫ Example: Literature Review Assignment. I made sure that the authors were credible
(searched them up online, checked their institutions).
Needs improvement:
• I can assess my progress.
▫ One of my biggest weaknesses is reflecting on my progress.

Creative Thinking

Strengths:
• I can use the environment around me, including others, and my unconscious mind to
generate new ideas.
▫ I enjoy thinking up ideas that are inspired by the world and people around me.

• I can create new and unique ideas that may provide new perspectives that influence how
people think about topics.
Needs improvement:
• I can persevere and understand that failure can be productive.
▫ I can persevere but I do not always learn from failure and failure sometimes scares
me away from achieving things.

Communication

Strengths:
• I can listen, learn to contribute meaningfully to discussion and debate, consider different
perspectives, and build consensus.
▫ I enjoy collaborating with others and sharing ideas.
▫ I also enjoy seeing (some) things from new points of view.

• I can work with other students to plan, inquire, and solve problems.
▫ I have done a lot of projects with other students, and I have also done projects
outside of school with people.
Needs improvement:
• I can reflect on the processes of learning and share what I have learned.
▫ As I mentioned before, I am not good at reflecting at all.
▫ I do not enjoy looking back at my older work and reflecting on it.

Personal and Cultural Identity

Strengths:
• I understand that culture is a broad concept that includes things like my geographic region,
nationality, sex/gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, language, and religion.
▫ Coming from a very diverse place, and living in an even more diverse place, I
absolutely understand how broad of a concept culture is.
• I understand how to use my strengths and abilities to my advantage, and I can explain how I
use them to contribute to my community.
 ▫ I understand that if I am good at something, I should be using it to make the world a
better place.
Needs improvement:
• I can define myself in terms of my relationship to others and to the world.
▫ I still need to learn how to define myself in terms of my relationship to others.