Core Competency Reflection

Personal Awareness & Responsibility:

Strengths:

• I am personally responsible, self-motivated, and can advocate for myself.

- I’ve handled myself for over five years, I motivate myself to keep going, and I believe that
whatever you give you will receive, (it’s been over five years since the last time I asked my
parents for money, and I do everything in my ways, and I fail so I can experience my problems
and learn from them).

• I take personal responsibility for my choices and actions.

- Ninety percent of what happens to me, I take full responsibility for it, because it was my choice
and I'm responsible for it, and whatever I say that will get me into something, it all because of
me, that gives me the experience and the lesson that I must learn from it, (when I wanted to buy
a car, at first my thinking wasn’t thoughtful enough to think about the outcomes that I will get
into, and then when I bought the car I experienced things that I should of known before getting
into this risk).

Weakness:
• I understand learning takes patience and time.

- One thing that I don’t like about myself is being patient, I ‘m on a mission to achieve that habit,
because it’s so important to have a skill like it, (I will force myself to do some things that I know
the outcome will be being patient, so it become normal for me and be a habit).
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Social Responsibility:
Strengths:
• I can find and appreciate different perspectives on issues and use and evaluate strategies to resolve
problems.

- I think from my perspective and personal experience that I can find the issue or a problem and be
able to solve it without any hesitation or hurting someone unintentionally, (in my programing
class I had a difficult assignment I tried my best to get it done by myself, but I ended up asking
my teacher for some help).
• I have positive peer and intergenerational relationships.

- I can make my personality different from what it really is to keep the relationship alive, also I’m
the type of person who can make friends anywhere anytime I would like to, (when I want new
friends, I have my own ways to make them feel comfortable being around me, one of my ways is
talking like them with their sentences, and another way is listening to the same music as them
listing to).
Weakness:
• I value diversity, defend human rights, advocate for others, and act ethically in all my interactions,
including online.

- Sometimes when I look back at myself, I say that in some way, I must contribute to this world,
and I'm working on it to achieve that goal, (I feel that I must help people somehow in some way).
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Critical Thinking:
Strengths:
• I can ask excellent quality questions, gather relevant information, and come up with well-developed
conclusions.

- After I fully drained my mind of figuring it out, and then I ask my question and at the end I give a
simple developed understandable conclusion, (every time I finish my schoolwork, I do a little
summary about what I have accomplished).
• I can explore and create new ways to stand for my learning around a variety of problems, events, issues,
and needs

- I can control myself incredibly good, when you can do that, you can do a lot of things that make
your personality valued, (one of the things that I can control is my reaction to anything, like
getting a sudden cold shower).
Weakness:
• I understand the purpose for my work and consider my audience.

- I can understand the purpose of my work, but my problem is, I don’t share it with everyone, (if I
benefit from the thing that I had done, I don’t share my experience with anybody).
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Creative Thinking:
Strengths:
• I can use the environment around me, including others, and my unconscious mind to generate innovative
ideas.

- I’m so creative when it comes to people’s ideas, I take them as an opportunity for my thinking,
(for example if we’re talking about cars, I can take the information and apply it to my world).
• I can take my ideas evaluate, develop, and refine them and make something productive out of them.

- I have dreams and goals in this life, how I achieve my goals be my creative thinking, I think in
the right way, most of the time, I'm passionate when it comes to these kinds of things, (one of my
dreams was working in a restaurant, I started searching about restaurants and how they work and
what do I have to have to get into this industry, I ended up working in the restaurant that I wanted
to work in).
Weakness:
• I can create new and unique ideas that may supply new perspectives that influence how people think
about topics.

- I can’t create new or unique ideas because I don’t believe they’re going to work out, (I should
start making diction so that I can believe they’re going to work out).
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Communication:
Strengths:
• I can listen, learn to contribute meaningfully to discussion and debate, consider different perspectives,
and build consensus.

- I am a good listener; I learn a lot from people around me, and I can discuss ideas and supply
suggestions and solutions when I'm speaking, (I learned English in 3 months I listened and
learned to everyone around me).
• I can reflect on the processes of learning and share what I have learned.

- I always share what I've learned from people that I'm surrounded with, with the people that I love,
(I hear a good quote or advice I share it with my friends and family, people who I love).
Weakness:
• I can work with other students to plan, inquire, and solve problems.

- I can’t really engage with people that aren’t the same mindset as mine, (I don’t understand the
people who have a completely different perspective than mine).
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Personal & Cultural Identity:
Strengths:
• I understand what is important to me.

- I can understand and see what is important to me, and how valuable that thing is to me, (I always
understand the value of the things that I have, I'm always grateful for what I have before saying
anything else).
• I understand how what I value has and will shape my choices.

- Everything that I value has shaped my choices and changed my perspective, (every single small
or big thing I do, or I say, reflects on me and from the outcomes of it I learn).
Weakness:
• I can define myself in terms of my relationship to others and to the world.

- I haven’t figured out how I can define my relationship with other people to the world, because I
haven’t had a true relationship with someone or a meaningful relationship with anybody, (I’m
very picky when it come to a relationships, I can’t have someone with me and I can’t identify
 him/her in a relationships, (therefore I thinks that if I talk to more people I can prevent this
“problem”)).
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