Self-review and Personal Goals

IB Learner Profile
Inquirer

Thinker

Communicator

Risk Taker

Knowledgeable

Principled

Open-minded

Caring

Balanced

Reflective

Increased awareness
of your own
strengths and areas
for growth

Undertaken new
challenges

Planned and
initiated activities

Worked
collaboratively with
others

Shown perseverance
and commitment in
your activities

Engaged with issues

of global importance

Considered the
ethical implications
of your actions

Developed New
Skills

Mentally engage in
the activity

Consider how the

project affects my
personal situation

CAS Learning Outcomes

Choose 3 of the IB Learner Profile words and write what you think they mean.

Balanced:
This means that the individual be not only successful academically, but know
how to maintain a healthy balance between social life, service to the
community and academic performance. Specializing in only one of them
doesnt make for a complete individual.
Risk Taker:
This means to put oneself in uncomfortable situations, which we are not
accustomed to and are out of our comfort zone. It is pushing beyond our
normal limits and trying something new constantly mellowing in the same old
situations.
Communicator:

Being a good communicator is someone who is very good at transmitting their

ideas to the rest, and can be very persuasive in making them understand and
accept what he/she means. It is being proficient in more than just one
language, and being able to adapt to different situations, like giving a speech
and talking one-on-one with someone else.

Thinking about yourself in general, list some of your strengths and areas for growth. What are you good at?
What are you not so good at?
I believe I am good at working in a group, as well as being able to analyze, to a deeper level of understanding, the
content that is taught in class. I also feel that I engage in a number of recreational activities outside study. I am
not so good at keeping track of deadlines and generally organizing myself in order to allocate the appropriate
time to the various tasks at hand, to prevent getting overwhelmed.
How might you show perseverance and commitment during your CAS programme?
I can show perseverance and commitment by being constant in my work. Reliably engaging in the activities week
in and week out demonstrates dedication to the program. Not only showing up every week, but participating
actively inside the activities also ensures my intellectual participation as well as physical. Presenting my group
with an imposing figure will be productive and lead to a better CAS project overall.

What issues of global importance do you think you might encounter during your CAS programme?
Main themes, such as poverty and deforestation, are bound to be involved in some of the CAS outings, although
smaller themes, such as the mistreatment of street animals and the issue of managing aging men and women in
specialized, will be present as well. Exposure to at least the majority of them is bound to happen, and will
broaden my view on the world, having witnessed some of the real-life problems actually in person.

What is an ethical implication of an action?

It is the moral weight that precedes any sort of action. An example of this is when considering a visit to interact
with orphans at a school. Teaching them English may help them, because having more human touch is vital at
that moment in their lives, but to what extent, in the long term, would we help them?

Discussing with students/ teachers who are aware of the CAS programme at BSQ; what activities do you think
you might be interested in being involved in during your course?
Visiting animal protection and care foundations such as PAE (Proteccion de Animales Ecuador) and taking care of
the animals would be an interesting project to get involved in. Another project could be the visit to a recycling
plant, in order to better educate ourselves on the process that actually goes on during recycling and the positive

impact that it has.

Are there any new activities or projects you would like to start as part of your CAS programme? If so, what are
they?
Inter-school activities would be a fun project to start, given that collaborating with other schools means that we
can achieve greater change working together. Moreover, travelling in a big group to build affordable homes for
people without one is a project that would appeal to a lot of people.

What new challenges do you think you might encounter during your CAS programme?
Facing first-hand things like poverty, or any kind of incapacity (be it mental or physical) would be shocking at
first, because reading about it is very different from actually experiencing it, but it will teach me greater lessons
that if I were to stay sat in a classroom.

What new skills might you gain during your CAS programme?
The ability to propagate a message more effectively is something that I will surely learn with the CAS programme,
given the wealth of options that this skill would need to be put to the test. Getting people to donate, and
therefore help a project, would require this skill greatly.

What does collaboratively mean?

Collaboratively means working with other people to achieve a common goal, and interacting with them in order
to enrichen understanding, do the job more effectively, and in a better way.

What are some skills that allow a person to work collaboratively with others?
Being a good communicator is the most obvious skill; relating to others is on of the basis for cooperative work.
Being open-minded is also essential, because working collaboratively means accepting and discussing another
persons point of view.

Write two more learning outcomes in the table. Two goals that you would like to achieve during the course of
your diploma.

What life skills do you want to take with you after you complete your diploma course?

The ability to empathize with others is a vital part of life in my opinion, and the CAS program will help me
cement that ability.
Planning thoroughly an activity and then carrying out said activity as planned previously seems like an obvious
skill, but in reality everything very rarely goes to plan, so this skill would be immensely useful later in life.