Self-Reflection

Reflect upon your time in Calculus 12. Not only have you made it through one of the more difficult courses in your high school career, you have also done so during a challenging world event. Which core competency has been utilized the most for you, to get you through this course? (You can pick more than one if you feel you’ve tackled a couple). Write a couple paragraphs explaining why. You can refer to the PDF attached the assignment to delve into the specifics of each core competency.

I feel that my personal awareness and responsibility has truly developed over grade twelve, calculus and covid-19 especially. When questions, homework and assignments aren’t marked it’s oftentimes hard to want to complete the assigns, and to find the motivation to do them to the best of your ability, however I feel that calculus really pushed me and forced me to do the assignments and questions as the content was at a higher level than what I was used to. And specifically, being at home for the majority of it, I had no one else to blame when I was struggling with a concept and so I certainly feel like my personal responsibility has grown immensely over the past couple months, and the year in general.

I also feel that my communication has grown over the past few months as well. I have never been someone who was comfortable asking for help from a teacher, and I have always felt that I should be able to work things out on my own. However, not getting direct face to face lessons and not working through questions with my peers has certainly forced me to be more open to asking questions in general (for all of my classes). And I think that I have certainly developed on my auditory comprehension. I have always been more of a visual learner, however learning online and from home has forced me to be more comfortable learning and listening instead of simply observing like I would normally. I feel that the past few months have certainly helped prepare me for the more lecture-style classes that come with university and have helped me develop my communication and listening skills as well.