Social Entrepreneurship and You is our first unit in which we dove into the social behaviorisms within the business realm. In order to understand how a brand mission starts to establish we needed to understand the foundation of a mission. Our class had taken several personality test and self reflected conversations to be able to build our name in which we define how we would describe ourselves to each other. These practices allowed us to get a sense on how our qualities contribute to a working space. Once we dove into our external portion of our investigation we were able to identify these qualities in forms of work fields. These assessments was a great opportunity to see yourself setting goals in an area that benefits you as much as you benefit the space. Now that we learned from ourselves and our classmates we took that same practice to blueprint ideas through our space, GCE. The purpose of this Action Project is to propose an area in which can be improved through conducting feedback and our own jigg.
Voices in GCE:
I define myself possessing traits of being open-minded, risk-taking, creative, and a full time ROCKSTAR. After we were told to enter several personality quizzes what I once defined myself to be had changed. One of the quizzes we took was 16 personalities, I resulted into being a ENFP campaigner "type". An ENFP type is described to be fiercely independent, and much more than stability and security, they crave creativity and freedom. To get a more well rounded result I also took The Big Five assessment quiz to measure the percent in which follow the O.C.E.A.N(). After seeing the common threads I wasn't shocked at the results as I am a person who reflects on the way I am around my environment constantly because of the I had a sense in where these quizzes will categorize me to begin. Overall these quizzes allowed me to better identify myself in a working environment specifically the school. Knowing what I know about myself I can now better understand the role I play into GCE and for that I will be able to better asses myself and others into incorporating multimedia outlets into GCE.
To further our understanding of GCE's connection with art I followed up with two faculty members and two students perspectives to tell me about there personal relation.
- Marcus expressed how the arts is integrated into our curriculum as oppose to it being a main principle. He feels as if the arts is apart of the design aspect of the school as our goal is to become global citizens. Marcus also spoke about how he gets to experience art within GCE through example projects that happen behind the scenes when it comes to making the lessons and workshops for students.
- Tirsa spoke on how many students in this school are involved in different forms of art but definitely no guided toward only the arts. Tirsa spoke how she likes to work on her music mixes in-between classes as she feels inspired by certain talks that go on in her classroom
- Neymar expressed as if he is not able to fully apply his interest in the arts as much as he would like because certain action projects restrict him from being able to fully express his creative process within the curriculum.
- Montse expresses teaching Spanish the most effective when incorporating culture and art into her teachings. When it comes to teaching a language having kids tap into art allows them to connect easier between subjects.
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Organization:
SWOT is a technique used for project planning to further help tackle certain trends and practices to a intended outcome. In order to implement my plan for GCE I had organized the information I gathered to place into a SWOT plan.
Strengths - GCE excels in exposing students to forms of connecting art to world change by resources, support from staff, and a platform to display your interest.
Weaknesses - Action Project is a form in ways students get creative yet the time constraints students from applying a more creative take into big projects. Students aren't given consistent art classes that effect the individual and one to graduate with art credits.
Opportunities - Supervisors support leads to the opportunity for students to feel their creative process into class assignments.
Threats - School Schedule and curriculum timing.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs categorizes these words into a pyramid shape to point that without having basic needs its difficult to reach higher in the chart to later then receive stability in safety and esteem being two of them. I will use the practice of the chart to asses how GCE fits into these 5 categories.
Self Actualization - Senior Capstone, Clubs, Independent Study
Esteem - Action Projects, P.I.E
Love & Belonging - Group Activities, Soapbox, Support
Safety - Art Supplies, Shelter
Physiological - Students tend to draw as a form of being present and comfortable in GCE
Commons
After collecting the common threads from the several conducted information I see that people feel the same in having the ability to express themselves in school yet all face the challenge of time being given to explore more of ones fascinations.
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Plan:
My plan is to not reinvent the wheel. GCE is an environment that welcomes art to be into the conversation in many ways than one. This being said I believe GCE needs to apply consistency instead. When facing the ongoing and changing schedules every year its understandable that certain things get oped out. After doing this Action Project I see that art should not be a category that gets replaced. Many students who come to GCE set time to do whats required in that space, this becomes difficult when certain art workshops are not given to students as resources where they then have to find their own source of receiving the academic foundation while taking steps for themselves as creative learners. Looking into the assessments A SMART goal I came up with that personally impacted myself as well was art club. Art club had allowed students like myself to tap into a conversation of art history and learning more about styles and techniques I didn't know existed once before. Although art is implantednaturally through our planned courses I think its important for GCE to see art as a class that stays in our schedules because forming a space initiated by form of expression allows our community to support each others passions and bring them into the conversation! Once the conversation is given there is no telling what opportunities GCE can be making off from the support.
Self Lab Rat
During this action project I wanted to allow myself to do more art because like many of what my peers experiences I to face the problem of not doing art because of needing to keep up with school. I decided that'll it would be fun to allow myself a space inside GCE to continue creative outlets during the regular given assignments. Doing this self assessment made me realize how effectively I can balance in class discussions while allowing myself a space to not loose my motivation.
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