My Personal Values Portfolio: A Deep Dive Into Self

Project Objective

To create a personal portfolio that articulates and visually represents your core values, beliefs, and interests, demonstrating a deeper understanding of your unique identity.

Project Description

This portfolio is your opportunity to explore and express who you are. Over the next few sessions, you will gather your thoughts and create a collection of artifacts that reflect your personal values, beliefs, and interests. This is not just a collection of items, but a thoughtful and reflective journey into your inner self.

Deliverables

Your portfolio should include the following sections. Each section requires a written reflection and a creative artifact.

1. My Core Values (Written Reflection & Artifact)

• Written Reflection (250-300 words):
  • Identify your top 3-5 core values. Why are these values important to you?
  • Describe how these values influence your decisions and actions in daily life.
  • Provide specific examples of when you have upheld these values.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
• Creative Artifact: Choose one of the following:
  • Value Symbol: Create a visual symbol (drawing, collage, digital art) that represents one or more of your core values.
  • Personal Anthem: Choose a song that embodies your core values and write a paragraph explaining why this song reflects your values.

2. My Guiding Beliefs (Written Reflection & Artifact)

• Written Reflection (250-300 words):
  • Identify 2-3 significant beliefs you hold about yourself, others, or the world.
  • Explain how these beliefs were formed (e.g., through experience, family, culture).
  • Discuss how these beliefs impact your perspective and behavior.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
• Creative Artifact: Choose one of the following:
  • Belief Statement Art: Design a poster or visual representation of one of your core beliefs.
  • Short Story/Poem: Write a short story or poem (minimum 15 lines) that illustrates one of your beliefs in action.

3. My Authentic Interests (Written Reflection & Artifact)

• Written Reflection (250-300 words):
  • List 3-5 of your most authentic interests or passions.
  • Explain what draws you to these interests and how they make you feel.
  • Describe how these interests contribute to your personal growth or well-being.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
• Creative Artifact: Choose one of the following:
  • Interest Collage: Create a collage (physical or digital) of images, words, and symbols that represent your interests.
  • Show and Tell Video: Record a short video (2-3 minutes) describing your interests and showcasing a related item or activity.

Presentation & Submission

• Your completed portfolio will be presented to a small group of peers or the teacher (as assigned).
• All written reflections and creative artifacts should be submitted digitally or physically as per teacher instructions.

Due Date

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Assessment

Your portfolio will be assessed using the Personal Reflection Assessment Rubric. Please review the rubric carefully to understand the grading criteria for each section.

Personal Reflection Assessment Rubric

Project: My Personal Values Portfolio

This rubric will be used to assess your My Personal Values Portfolio based on the thoughtfulness of your reflections and the creativity and relevance of your artifacts.

Scoring Scale

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: Demonstrates exceptional understanding, insight, and effort.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: Demonstrates solid understanding, good insight, and appropriate effort.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Demonstrates some understanding, limited insight, and inconsistent effort.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Demonstrates minimal understanding, lacks insight, and insufficient effort.

Criteria

1. My Core Values

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: Identifies 5+ distinct, well-articulated core values. Provides profound insights into their personal significance and offers compelling, detailed examples of their influence on decisions and actions.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: Identifies 3-4 core values. Explains their personal significance with clear examples of their influence on decisions and actions.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Identifies 1-2 values, but explanation of significance or examples of influence are vague or limited.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Fails to identify core values or provides irrelevant explanations.
  
  
  
  

2. My Guiding Beliefs

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: Identifies 3+ profound and distinct beliefs. Offers exceptional insight into their formation and demonstrates a deep understanding of their multifaceted impact on perspective and behavior.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: Identifies 2-3 significant beliefs. Explains their formation and discusses their impact on perspective and behavior with clear connections.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Identifies 1-2 beliefs, but explanation of formation or impact on perspective/behavior is superficial or unclear.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Fails to identify guiding beliefs or provides irrelevant explanations.
  
  
  
  

3. My Authentic Interests

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: Lists 5+ diverse, authentic interests. Provides exceptional detail on what draws them to these interests, articulates their emotional connection, and offers insightful reflections on their profound contribution to personal growth and well-being.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: Lists 3-4 authentic interests. Explains what draws them to these interests and describes their contribution to personal growth or well-being.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Lists 1-2 interests, but explanation of attraction or contribution to personal growth/well-being is limited.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Fails to identify authentic interests or provides irrelevant explanations.
  
  
  
  

4. Creative Artifacts (Overall)

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: All artifacts are exceptionally creative, highly relevant to their respective sections, and demonstrate outstanding effort and thoughtful representation of personal identity.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: All artifacts are creative, relevant to their respective sections, and demonstrate good effort and representation of personal identity.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Some artifacts are creative and relevant, but others are lacking in effort or connection to the section.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Artifacts are largely uncreative, irrelevant, or missing.
  
  
  
  

5. Written Reflection Quality (Overall)

• 4 - Exceeds Expectations: All written reflections are exceptionally well-organized, articulate, and demonstrate advanced critical thinking and self-awareness. Free of grammatical errors and typos.
• 3 - Meets Expectations: Written reflections are well-organized, articulate, and demonstrate good critical thinking and self-awareness. Few grammatical errors or typos.
• 2 - Approaching Expectations: Written reflections are somewhat organized and articulate, but may lack depth or contain several grammatical errors/typos.
• 1 - Below Expectations: Written reflections are disorganized, unclear, or contain numerous grammatical errors/typos, making comprehension difficult.