Core Competency Reflection

Personal Awareness & Responsibility:

Strength:

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

As my experience of childhood, I grew up with my grandparents and rarely saw my parents
because of their work. Therefore, I was more precocious than others around my age. That
also made me early to be personally responsible that I need to take care of my school, my
emotions, and handle lots of problems I faced.

2. I can set goals, regulate my emotions and persevere in difficult situations.

I’m the oldest child in my family, so it is normal that I often need to cut off my work and go
help them. Sometimes I would feel annoyed because I can’t keep on my work and my time’s
been taken. But with time I became more patient, and I can control my emotions well when I
have problems or troubles. I will stay calm and try to find ways to solve them.

Weakness:

1. I understand learning takes patience and time

Cause of my personality I’m easily to get interested in many things, so I often suddenly want
to learn something I'm interested in. However, this kind of learning without enough patients
would always make me give up on halfway, so I really need to change that by more thinking
and planning on things I interested at, and have more patience and motivation when
learning or working.

Social Responsibility:

Strength:

1. I can identify and appreciate different perspectives on issues and use and evaluate
strategies to resolve problems.
Last year, I was doing a group presentation project about introducing a city, and there was a
disagreement in our group about introducing the culture or the landscapes. Their ideas were
both creative and interesting, so I tried to let them connect the culture and landscapes
based on history, festivals or even foods. Lastly, we made a presentation that talked about
the landscapes and buildings, and how and why these affected the city and its culture.

2. I have positive peer and intergenerational relationships. Social Responsibility.

I always believed making connection with society is an important point as a human being, so
I like to do something that might help people or others, and I also like to chat with people to
listen to their stories. This summer I went to playland with my family, and when I played the
Atmosfear I sat with a lady. I chatted a lot with her, listening to her talk about how brave her
daughters are that they took many exciting plays, and that also reminded me about my
childhood which made me feel happy and meaningful.

Weakness:

1. I am aware of my community and environment and work independently and

collaboratively for the benefit of others.
I think sometimes I am afraid to really step in some community to know what I can help or
work about, and I didn’t aware and understood enough of my community. I should make
more connection with my community and environment and try to join more volunteer
activities to get experience.

Critical Thinking:

Strength:

1. I can analyze and critique my work and my learning.

Last semester I had my ib math middle term test. I expected I could get a 6 for that test, but I
only got a 4. Therefore, I started to reflect on the problems that I shouldn’t have mistaken,
and why I didn’t do well on this test. I also critique myself that I didn’t review hard before
the test and I spend too much time on games and social media, so I must cut down my time
and pay more attention to learn and review.

2. I can explore and create new ways to represent my learning around a variety of problems,
events, issues, and needs.
In grade 10 social class, I was doing a project about introducing WW II. I didn’t want to only
write an essay for this project, so I included my interests on design and made a presentation
about Arts in WW II. I talked about how arts changed during and after the war, and how the
war affected the trends of arts, and even about the arts used in WW II.

Weakness:

1. I can ask good quality questions, gather relevant information, and come up with well-
developed conclusions.
I like to find details from things and have thinking on them, but I couldn’t make good
questions from the details I found that connect with live, people or society, so most time in
group works I would just find the details I think are useful and share them with teammates,
but I should try thinking deeper with them and making good questions.

Creative Thinking:

Strength:

1. I can use the environment around me, including others, and my unconscious mind to
generate new ideas.
In grade 10 team sports class, we needed to do a project of making a class for classmates
based on sports, two friends and I were confused what class we should make. I knew we all
like playing badminton and we don’t want to make a class that is only system learning
badminton skills, so I created some fun games of badminton and made a competition for
them.

2. I can take my ideas evaluate, develop, and refine them and make something productive
out of them.
When an idea comes in my mind, I usually like to make a list about it. I will think about its
benefits and problems, and how I can develop more based on this idea. Moreover, I like to
list the procedure to show my steps to achieve it, and when I feel confused, I can check my
procedure to see which step I am.

Weakness:

1. I can persevere, and understand that failure can be productive.

Cause of my personality I always feel hard to accept my failure, and if I continue to have
setbacks on my works, I will feel struggle and may even want to quit it. I think I need to be
more understanding that failure is a very common and normal thing in almost everything I
do, and I should face my failure more instead of avoiding it.

Communication:

Strength:

1.I can listen, learn to contribute meaningfully to discussion and debate, consider different
perspectives, and build consensus.
I am a good listener and I like to express my own opinion based on other people's questions
and insights. Last year in creative writing 11, we had a symposium about the book Kite
Runner and our point was what is the meaning of Amir back to Afghanistan to save his
brother’s son. I said that I think that was not just a rescue, it’s also a self-redemption of Amir.

2.I can work with other students to plan, inquire, and solve problems.
Last semester, I was doing an ib group 4 project at school, Ted and I were the leaders of our
group, and we made the plans for the project. I did the research and procedure, and when
we do the project, I helped Ted to build up the equipment and analyze data. Moreover, we
made a lot of discussion about the conclusion we got from the project and the parts that we
could improve more.

Weakness:

1. I can reflect on the processes of learning and share what I have learned.
I always think that I am a good Implementer, but not a reflector. I think I need to pay
attention more about how I achieved something cause most of the time I only looked for the
results, that will block my thinking on what can I improve on and how did I figure out the
actions or ideas in my processes.

Personal & Cultural Identity:

Strength:

1.I understand that culture is a broad concept that includes things like my geographic region,
nationality, sex/gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, language, and religion.
I think to be respect to different of cultures or religion is important to make the world
diversified. As my thought, variety of cultures and religions is one of the keys to show more
creative and improvement, more communications and conflicts will push human to develop
to deeper and advanced.

2.I understand how what I value has and will shape my choices.
I have a big family and that affects me a lot that when I am making choices, the first thing I
value is my family. Cause I am the biggest child in my family, I know I need to take
responsibility to them, and based on that if I am making choices that hang out with friends, I
will see do I anything for my family, and if I need to I won’t choose to go out.

Weakness:

1. I know my strengths and what makes me unique.

I think I am overly pleasing to others sometimes because I feel I don’t want to be unique by
my subliminal, so I may force myself to be with groups. I should try to be more confident of
myself and to be aware of my strengths. And to believe how unique and important I am.