Development of Core Competencies:

Intro Activity

The Core Competencies

It wasn't that long ago that you were introduced to the concept of core competencies and how development of your core competencies will assist you in making the integral connections between career and life. What you may not know though, is how much your ability to reflect and analyze growth in the core competencies will assist you in making your career-life decisions.

The core competencies are a set of intellectual, personal, and social competencies that are based on your own individual strengths; what you can do and how to plan for growth in each of the three areas. Your core competencies can be demonstrated in many different ways both at school, and in your activities outside of school.

As you move through high school, It is important to proactively think about the work you will do in your courses and how you can show evidence of your intellectual, personal and social competencies. Through connecting evidence of competencies to your future goals and aspirations, you be able to better analyze what you need to develop such competencies in your school and personal life. Just in case you needed a reminder of the core competencies, they are listed below.

In the next assignment, and throughout the Career Education program, you will continue to relate the importance of core competencies to deep and lifelong learning!

Communication

How you share and exchange information, experiences and ideas, explore the world around you, and understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media

• Connect and engage with others (to share and develop ideas)

• Acquire, interpret, and present information

• Collaborate to plan, carry out, and review constructions and activities

• Explain/recount and reflect on experiences and accomplishments

Creative Thinking

How you generate new ideas and concepts that have value to the individual or others, and the develop these ideas and concepts from thought to reality.

• Ideas have novelty and value

• Generating ideas

• Developing ideas

Critical Thinking

How you make judgments based on reasoning:

consider options; analyze these using specific criteria; and draw conclusions and make judgments.
Analyze and critique
Question and investigate
Develop and design

Positive Personal and Cultural Identity

How you develop awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all the facets that contribute to a healthy sense of oneself. It includes awareness and understanding of your family background, heritage(s), language(s), beliefs, and perspectives in a pluralistic society.

• Relationships and cultural contexts help to shape who you are

• Personal values and choices

• Personal strengths and abilities

Personal Awareness and Responsibility

How you use the skills, strategies, and dispositions to stay healthy and active, set goals, monitor progress, regulate emotions, respect their own rights and the rights of others, manage stress, and persevere in difficult situations.

• Self‐determination (a sense of personal value and growing confidence)

• Self‐regulation (taking responsibility for your own choices and actions)

• Well‐being (mental, physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual wellness)

Social Responsibility

How you contribute positively to you family, community, society, and the environment; to resolve problems peacefully; to empathize with others and appreciate their perspectives; and to create and maintain healthy relationships

• Contributing to community and caring for the environment

• Solving problems in peaceful ways

• Valuing diversity

• Building relationships

Assignment

FIRST REFLECTION: COMMUNICATION

Using the worksheet posted here, reflect on your own core competencies - those that you feel confident in, and those which you would like to further develop. As a lifelong learner, you are taking stock of where you are in your learning journey at this transitional, but exciting time! It is important to reflect back on your growth as a learner by looking back at your learning and reflections about your core competency development over the past few years.

This is a great way for your teacher to get to know you, and to set a starting point for your own goals in this course and to help you develop evidence for your Grade 12 capstone project. Your reflection should be personally meaningful and connect to the next steps, easy ones and more difficult, that you hope to pursue in this journey!

If you need some inspiration, think back at your growth over the past few years. You may be surprised at your own development and growth! You are welcome to just answer the questions in a separate document or create slides to respond to the reflections. Alternatively, you may print the worksheet, complete it, and upload an image of your work.

SUBMIT

Submit your reflection to your Advisory Google Classroom.

Due: Monday, September 18, 2023

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