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Core Competency Reflection                                                                                                              Kazuki  

Core Competency Chosen:  Creative Thinking 

For this reflection I think I’ve shown some things under the creative thinking category. One thing is, I can get/generate ideas in some different areas. I can create ideas when I play around with the project and, being able to build on other group members ideas. For my group, I was able to create a theme/beat to our poem quickly, after a few starter ideas to start us off. I did have other ideas in mind but, the one we agreed on in the beginning still stood on top of the rest. We were into/interested, in making these “rap beats” for are poem and, we did kind of enjoyed it (Not the presenting part of it though). Are group being able to have a good base to start off from, but also, we’re good at developing it. 

As we went along with our idea, we kept changing it the main plan to see what would fit. I wanted this idea to go well and, not make ourselves embarrassed upstage. We kept changing a few things to adjust the percussion piece to it making it, sound right/fit in. Like how we added pauses in between words and lines, also speeding up some lines to make it sound better. We also kept playing around with, how many stomps or claps we would put for certain stanzas. But we still had to make it fit within the small poem that we have gotten so, we had to stay in the limits of the poem. Even though we’ve shown pieces of these sections, there is still more we can improve on. 

There are parts where I can still improve to become better. Like, using my senses to explore new areas, that could help me generate ideas to create/build, on my current one. One thing I could of done is, had a visual piece to are poem reading presentation. Maybe I could bring in a stuffed animal or, do hand motions to make it more interesting. Another thing is, working on creating strategies for being calmer upstage, and working strategies to have a more creative mind while working. I still feel uncomfortable upstage and I’m always frightened and, shaking all the time. I still can’t find a good strategy for calming myself down so, that’s what I need to look for.