– Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth & demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process – 

This learning outcome has become important to me personally especially during these past two years, the effect of COVID-19 has really made it a struggle. From the beginning of the DP year, I had set a goal for me to focus on experimenting and trying new art media. This is because in the IB visual arts course we would eventually create a theme for ourselves to follow and present in the exhibition, so for the days before that upcoming exhibition I had thought to experiment with new media. I have the basic abilities to use media like acrylic and watercolor but I had never tried media like paper art, embroidery, or printing. So, during the DP course before the exhibition, I took the opportunity to experiment and try new media as my art pieces. I had also participated in the SAISA art trip as I thought it would be a good learning experience as it offered a variety of art media to learn from artists. I selected the paper art course, at first had struggled in brainstorming ideas which is a usual struggle for me when it comes to art. My weakness is that I always hold myself back from starting my art piece by evaluating whether the idea is good or bad. However, because there was a limited amount of time to create the art piece I concluded to follow through with the idea and it came out better than I had thought. Creatively I was able to learn from my weakness of struggling to finalize an idea and to follow through with it.  I have also grown as a person, especially mentally as I would get a lot of anxiety and stress from attending online school. From the struggle I was having during DLP I had learned to use exercising and meditation as a way to be able to calm myself or clear my mind. 

Other challenges that had occurred during the DP course were when participating in the SAISA swimming and badminton training. Swimming my main sport I always try to make sure that I am physically fit and technically skilled. x

– Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a cas eXPERIENCE – 

 

– show commitment to and perseverance in Cas experiences – 

 

– dEMONSTRATE THE SKILLS AND RECOGNIZE THE BENEFITS OF WORKING COLLABORATIVELY – 

 

– dEMONSTRATE ENGAGEMENT WITH ISSUES OF GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE – 

 

– rECOGNIZE AND CONSIDER THE ETHICS OF CHOICES AND ACTIONS –

 

 

In conclusion, this CAS 2 year experience has become