Personal Awareness and Responsibility

Personal awareness and responsibility includes the skills, strategies, and dispositions that help students to stay healthy and active, set goals, monitor progress, regulate emotions, respect their own rights and the rights of others, manage stress, and persevere in difficult situations. Students who demonstrate personal awareness and responsibility demonstrate self-respect and express a sense of personal well-being.  The Personal Awareness and Responsibility Competency Profiles have been developed by BC teachers based on students’ work. The personal awareness and responsibility competency review draft consists of two elements:

Personal Awareness and Responsibility Competency Profiles (PDF)

present an overview and the set of profiles. The overview provides background about the personal awareness and responsibility competency and includes a description of its facets. The set of profiles are descriptions of students as they progress to sophisticated stages of competency. The profiles are written from the student’s point of view, reflecting student ownership and responsibility for demonstrating the competencies.

Download the Personal Awareness and Responsibility Competency Profiles in English or French

Personal Awareness and Responsibility Competency Illustrations The illustrations offer examples of ways in which students from diverse backgrounds and communities can demonstrate the personal awareness and responsibility competency.