5.3 Assignment - Core Competencies

Please answer the following questions on your ‘Capstone Project’ Portfolio.  Add a piece of media to your page as evidence.

• Consider what you have done this school year, what artifact demonstrates your strengths within each one of the core competencies?  (communication, thinking, personal and social)
• Communication:  How do you share information with others?  Tell a time you used feedback to improve your learning.  What does effective group work look like?
• Critical Thinking: How did you incorporate other people's ideas/perspectives?  How do you know that you were successful in completing a school assignment?
• Creative thinking:  Where do your ideas come from?  How have you used other people's ideas to support your thinking?  Describe a time when you helped build upon the ideas of others.
• Personal awareness and responsibility:  What treasures of gifts do you bring to your classroom/school community?  Give an example of a personal strength (academic or personal).  How do you take ownership of feelings and emotions?
• Social Responsibility:  Talk about a time you made sure everyone was included.  Share a time when you used kind questions to learn something from another person.
• Positive personal and cultural identity:  What makes you unique?  How do you learn best?  What is important to you?

Submit Assignment - Core Competencies to be graded by your teacher.

Send an online text to your teacher that you have sent the assignment to your portfolio.  The online text is necessary to activate the mark.