L02: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
L03: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r7oy4u5BtmLon5zkmozv3UKR-FEaaSBa
Planning Documents can be found here:
L03: Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
L02: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I_WKTDrWQgjWsC6a9lNHrmkvj78JXhOO
L04: Show commitment to and perseverance in your CAS experiences
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1venMW9hAkUTD_UNktPiF2JQq8AokC5dV
L05: Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17CoMjvbkd6Csg8ZzIbjNigJ9rnLhh3i4
After the sessions today I have learnt how to properly embed research when explaining a theory. I have always struggled with integrating data into describing theories and therefore I think that this is a very important skill that will be able to enhance my extended essay. I am very proud, since today I had to change my EE topic. I was originally doing an economics EE but today I realised that I had to change to a world studies EE. I am proud of this because I was easily able to adapt my research question to incorporate psychology and address a global issue. Surprisingly, I feel as though I have a better direction to my EE now than I did before. Since I have changed my topic, I now have to redirect my research. I want to form an outline for myself on what I will research and how I will approach the research. Once I have a proper outline I will then try to formulate questions for my primary research and begin conducting that so that I can begin to analyse my results and form conclusions.
I have completed in-depth research of the implementation of Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) and begun to look at the effects of this, on the labour market in Singapore. I realised that in order to evaluate the impacts of FCF, I must first have comprehensive knowledge on the formation and objectives of it. When conducting initial research, I found it challenging to find statistics that directly linked employment in F&B to FCF. Therefore, I realised I would need to use triangulation to conduct quantitative and quantitative data to reach a thorough conclusion. Also I have noticed some flaws in FCF. It was initiated due to Singaporean PME’s being replaced by expats, however, the framework now exempts any job that earns over $12,000 a month and therefore wouldn’t have the desired effect of protecting employment for local PME’s. I feel like throughout this process it will be very important to questions some of the decisions made in order to properly evaluate FCF.
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L02: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q4904cDze2f_4SoJj03xmn6hWb9y5ayO
L01: Identifying own strengths and develop areas for personal growth
For economeast this year, I have found myself getting frustrated on multiple occasions. For our second round of articles, the members of the activity have been quite disorganised. Knowing that this would be a busy term for me, I planned ahead and made sure that my article was ready before the term started and I could focus my efforts towards editing other people’s articles. However, no other member of the group had their article ready even by the set due dates and therefore I could not do my second role of editing in the allocated time. This was particularly frustrating since I had a lot of other things going on and did not have the time to edit the other articles whenever they were ready. I attempted to fix this problem by talking to the leaders of the activity, yet; individuals still did not complete the work on time. I think that looking forward I need to understand that it was beneficial that I got my work done ahead of time, but I need to be more flexible when it comes to work that is dependant on others.
L05: Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively
In service, we had a couple sessions just to reflect on everything and help make us more aware of the people we are working with. To do this, each of us took turns to walk around school with a blindfold on to experience what the kids who come to our school would feel like. I felt as though this was a very important exercise to allow us to even partially comprehend the lives of the children we are working with. One thing that I realised that I normally take for granted is the use of other people. I found it so essential to have some constantly speaking to me and helping me while walking and the moment I would lose their voice I would feel scared and alone. So hear I was able to appreciate communication and collaboration in different way and understand how the simple voice of someone can give you so much comfort.
Attached is a video of me walking with the blindfold:
L07: Recognise and consider the ethics of choices and actions
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XVMO7EvKPHxOIExlYX_O1tgIFRIFYk-2