Activity 1
- Below are a list of skills and abilities. Complete an audit of where you are now. Record this in your learning journal/portfolio.
Rate yourself (1=Not very well developed; 3=very well developed)
| Skills and Abilities | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Flexibility | ✓ | ||
| Self confidence | ✓ | ||
| Self discipline | ✓ | ||
| Work under pressure | ✓ | ||
| Set personal goals | ✓ | ||
| Take risks | ✓ | ||
| Share opinions confidently | ✓ | ||
| Team work | ✓ | ||
| Take responsibility | ✓ | ||
| Build social networks | ✓ | ||
| Manage Time | ✓ | ||
| Act as a leader | ✓ | ||
| Negotiation | ✓ | ||
| Make presentations | ✓ | ||
| Listen to others | ✓ | ||
| Debate formally and informally | ✓ | ||
| Contribute to discussion | ✓ | ||
| Converse confidently | ✓ | ||
| Take notes | ✓ | ||
| Write for academic purposes | ✓ | ||
| Computing skills | ✓ | ||
| Be creative | ✓ | ||
| Use technology | ✓ | ||
| Problem solve | ✓ | ||
| Generate new ideas | ✓ | ||
| Work on own initiative | ✓ | ||
| Organise and plan | ✓ | ||
| Think critically | ✓ | ||
| Evaluate information | ✓ |
Activity 2
- Complete the audit below, using the information from the table above.
| Recognition | Reflection | Action |
| Skills already developed | How I will use these | How do I know (evidence)** |
| Flexibility | To be able to compromise with others, especially in group work. | In the working together module, I had to be flexible when working with the group when sharing ideas and had to compromise on some things. |
| Team work | I will use teamwork when I have to work in a group for a project, as it is important to work together to get the project done. | From the working together module, we worked as group to plan and make our presentation and then present our presentation at the end of the module. |
| Organise and plan | Plan assignments and have to do lists. | For both working together poster and the values essay, I had to plan the layout and content of my poster and essay before I started them so I knew what I was doing. |
| Take responsibility | Be responsible for my actions. | When working in a group in the working together module, I always tried to have my work done ahead of meeting up as I had to be responsible for my own actions and not let the group down. |
| Manage time | Being able to plan ahead. | When it comes to deadlines, it important to manage my time to be able to meet the deadline. I always have to plan my assignment in advance to ensure I can meet the deadline. |
| Negotiation | Being able to compromise and negotiation with others. | When working in groups previously, I have been able to negotiate and compromise well with others to avoid conflict. |
| Make presentations | Making presentations for assignments in working together module | I have previously made many assignments during my IB, however, I will continue to do so in the working together module for my poster and group presentation. |
| Listen to others | When working in a group | It is important to listen and respect others opinions and ideas when working in a group and I have done so during the working together module and other times previously when working in a group especially during IB. |
| Take notes | Taking notes to reflect on my learning later | I take notes during every lecture to remind myself later of what I thought was important or relevant to know. I also take notes when studying as I feel this helps me. |
| Computing skills | Using computer for assignments, blogs or online units. | I have used my computing skills during my online tasks and using it for assignments and presentations. |
| Use technology | Using laptops or phones to research things for assignments, using online resources or complete assignments. | I use technology to do my assignments and using online resources and have previously used technology a lot during my IB course to complete coursework. |
| Set personal goals | I set personal goals to achieve by the end of the week/day on what I want to be completed. | When completing assignments, I set goals on what I think I should have completed by the end of the day to ensure I am managing my workload. |
| Recognition | Reflection | Action |
| Skills to be developed | How I will develop these | How do I know (evidence) ** |
| Self confidence | I can use self confidence in my work and presentations | I will be more confident in my work when submitting assignments or presentations |
| Self discipline | Having self control on working on assignments and not being distracted easily. | |
| Work under pressure | Sometimes when there are a lot of assignments due around the same time, I can get under a lot of pressure. I can work on this by trying to control my workload more. | |
| Take risks | By being more confident in myself and to not be afraid to try new creative ideas. | |
| Share opinions confidently | To share ideas and opinions more openly in group work and lectures and not to worry about other peoples opinions. | I have been working on this by sharing my ideas to my peer group more during the working together module. |
| Build social networks | Trying to talk to new people and always staying in contact with people. | |
| Act as a leader | Being more confident in myself to take control of situations during group work. | |
| Debate formally and informally | By raising discussions with friends and during group work. | |
| Contribute to discussion | Voice my opinion more during group work and not just sit back and allow others to talk. | I have been working on this by contributing my ideas to the group discussions more with my peer learning group. |
| Converse confidently | Have more confidence in my ideas and opinions. | |
| Write for academic purposes | Working on my essay writing skills. | Always reflecting on my writing skills after receiving feedback on an essay. |
| Be creative | By doing more research for ideas and having more confidence in my ideas. | |
| Problem solve | Looking from different perspectives and thinking outside the box. | |
| Generate new ideas | Doing research on ideas and increasing my knowledge. | |
| Work on own initiative | Have more self-confidence in my initiative and not be afraid to try new things. | |
| Think critically | Being able to reflect and analyse something so that I can improve on it. | |
| Evaluate information | Focusing on feedback from assignments and working on improving the negatives. |
