6. Personal Competence
Acording to Michael Kewley www.eiconsortium.org
defined personal
competence as a person ability including self awareness; EMOTIONAL
AWARENESS: the ability to recognize one’s emotions and their effects, ACCURATE SELF-ASSESSMENT: the ability to know one’s strengths and
limits, SELF-CONFIDENCE: Sureness about one’s self-worth and
capabilities, self-regulation; SELF-CONTROL: The ability to manage
disruptive emotions and impulses, TRUSTWORTHINESS: The ability to Maintain standards of honesty and integrity, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: The
ability to take responsibility for personal performance, ADAPTABILITY: Flexibility in handling change, INNOVATIVENESS: The ability to become
comfortable with and open to novel ideas and new information, and self- motivation ; ACHIEVEMENT DRIVE: the ability to strive to improve or
meet a standard of excellence, COMMITMENT: the ability to align with the goals of the group or organization, INITIATIVE: the ability of readiness to
act on opportunities, OPTIMISM: the ability to persistence in pursuing goals despite obstacles and setbacks. According to the definition above, the writer
formulates personal competence as one’s ability to see their self as a whole and the ability to place hisher self in a proper place in such situations and to
build his her self with positive motivation.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter provides the theories that are related to this study. This chapter is divided into two parts; first is theoretical review and second is theoretical
framework. Theoretical review consists of all theories in discussing the problems in the problem formulation. Theoretical framework consists of the theories used in
developing the design.
A. Theoretical Review
This section is concerned to the related theories to support the accomplishment of the study. Six major areas of inquiry are discussed; they are 1,
KTSP Educational Unit Level Curriculum 2 Elementary school students, 3
Reading Material, 4 Value 5 Designing Materials Theory, and 6 Instructional
design.
1. KTSP Educational Unit Level Curriculum
KTSP Educational Unit Level Curriculum is the core of Competency Based Curriculum. KTSP gives an authority for each school to determine the topics
they will teach and indicators of each topic based on the students characteristics, needs, level of proficiency, and potential resources. The subject learning and
teaching materials for each school can be different depending on the circumstance around the school and the students’ ability. KTSP curriculum notices to competency
standard and content standard achievement. The principles of KTSP curriculum are discussed as follows: