Aaron Siegemund

Block C

 Personal Awareness & Responsibility

 Strengths:
 I am learning to take care of myself.
 I am understanding the value of money, the difference between my materialistic
needs and wants, and how to save for important purchases, like a car.
 I take personal responsibility for my choices and actions.
 I can admit when I am wrong and deal with the consequences of my actions,
whether they be good or bad.
 Weaknesses:
 I understand learning takes patience and time.
 If I am not perfect at something right away, I think I am a failure and simply give
up.

 Social Responsibility
 Strengths:
 I value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for others, and act ethically in all my
interactions, including online.
 I am passionately defendant of human rights, and often find myself engaged in
heated conversations with people who think some should not have rights.
 I have positive peer and intergenerational relationships.
 I get along well with my friends and classmates, as well as my uncle, and my
older colleagues.
 Weaknesses:
 I am aware of my community and environment and work independently and
collaboratively for the benefit of others.
 I lack social awareness or object permanence skills, which hinders my abilities to
be conscious of things going on in my community.

 Critical Thinking
 Strengths:
 I can analyze and make defensible judgements, draw conclusions, and consider a
variety of perspectives.
 I often get into debates with my blood relatives about societal issues, such as
human rights, and display my thinking in logical formatting.
 I can analyze and critique my work and learning.
 I never think I am good enough at anything, and am constantly analyzing and
critiquing everything I do.
  Weaknesses:
 I can explore and create new ways to represent my learning around a variety of
problems, events, issues, and needs.
 I find it difficult to find new ways to put my thoughts into the world.

 Creative Thinking
 Strengths:
 I can use the environment around me, including others, and my unconscious mind to
generate new ideas.
 My surroundings often influence any poetry that I write.
 I can create new and unique ideas that may provide new perspectives that influence
how people think about topics.
 Connecting to the example above, my poetry can often provide a unique insight
into the topics I write about.
 Weaknesses:
 I can persevere and understand that failure can be productive.
 Despite getting better at pushing through when things get difficult, I still think
that my personal failures are massive downfalls.

 Communication
 Strengths:
 I can work with other students to plan, inquire, and solve problems.
 I don’t have a “my way or the highway” type mindset, so I can take in other
people’s ideas.
 I can engage in deep and meaningful inquiry for a variety of purposes and audiences.
 Deep conversations about various topics are a pleasantry for me, providing I am
interested in the topic.
 Weaknesses:
 I can listen, learn to contribute meaningfully to discussion and debate, consider
different perspectives and build consensus.
 Contributing to certain conversations can be difficult for me, as I don’t like to
interrupt people when they are speaking and everyone always seems to get a word
in before I can.

 Personal & Cultural Identity

 Strengths:
 I understand what is important to me.
 I am very aware of what I hold dear to me, and what I find important.
 I understand that culture is a broad concept that includes things like my geographic
region, nationality, sex/gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, language, and religion.
 Culture is an entirely personal thing, and is influenced by many factors, that
contribute to the uniqueness of oneself.
 Weaknesses:
 I know my strengths and what makes me unique.
 I struggle with determining my strengths, especially in assignments like this one.
It took me over thirty minutes to draft up ideas for my strengths, and there are
only 12 required.