NIE301 Learning with Communities Tutor-Marked Assignment 01, 2026

Mindedness*

Social connectedness and concern to engage with communities to contribute to broader community wellbeing/good.

Competencies

• Possess basic awareness of social, economic and political events.
• Clarify one’s role as an individual in communities.
• Ability to engage stakeholders in communities; identify and understand priorities.
• Understand the relationship between nation-building efforts and principles of governance.

Adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values by contextualising decision making and problem solving within ethical premises.

Competencies

• Recognize ethical considerations within an issue.
• Locate one’s personal values to understand underlying beliefs and assumptions in decision making.
• Analyze and evaluate complex problems and their moral implications.
• Demonstrate ability to exercise integrity.
• Would need to construct complex scenarios; to consider assessment apparatus; feasibility to be determined.

A viewpoint/lens that appreciates the interdependent relationships between individuals, societies and political, cultural and social spheres.

Competencies

• Ability to demonstrate respect and open-mindedness in interactions with individuals and groups from different social cultural backgrounds.
• Recognize, value and leverage diversity in background or abilities, such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender orientation, age, physical and learning ability, education, socio-economic status and political belief to understand the interests of diverse groups and build an inclusive environment.
• Proactively engage and collaborate with diverse stakeholders both locally and globally to confront global challenges.
• Operate in cross-cultural environments and demonstrate an awareness of the wider global context.
• Respect and navigate differing interests to contribute to a more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world.
• Develop local and global perspectives in problem solving and decision making.

Cognitive processing skills that enable an individual to objectively understand, analyse, and evaluate situations and issues to deepen understanding and/or provide solutions and offer courses of actions to achieve intended goals.

Competencies

• Use a reasoned process to choose a course of action to achieve intended goals.
• Question, reason inductively and deductively, and make correct analyses, inferences, and evaluations.
• Navigate among micro and macro understanding to achieve deep analysis.
• Notice and integrate new information in changing contexts.

Synthesize and apply different areas of knowledge and insights, and concepts from multiple disciplines to complex issues

Competencies

• Ability to identify complex problems that require an interdisciplinary approach.
• Ability to seek different perspectives and viewpoints.
• Ability to communicate concepts and ideas coherently and create common ground.
• Ability to integrate different perspectives and viewpoints into a coherent response.

A strong desire to know or learn something with an open and inquisitive attitude.

Competencies

• Be open to new and/or different experiences; desire to engage in new and/or different experiences.
• Make connections between different experiences and bodies of knowledge.
• Consistently ask questions about the world around them.
• Access and navigate through multiple and varied sources of information.

Ability to harness information and data using digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks, in order to function in a digital environment in a safe and responsible manner.

Competencies

• Able to navigate the online space with confidence.
• Possess the skill to use digital technology and communication tools and/or networks for their intended purpose.
• Able to use the appropriate tools, if necessary, to analyse and interpret information and data.
• Engage in critical thinking when evaluating information and data.
• Awareness of data analytics.
• Understand how data is accumulated and used.

Ability to accurately receive, interpret and convey ideas and thoughts effectively, taking into account the context and intended audience.

Competencies

• Ability to clarify, analyse and critique received information.
• Ability        to         select   pertinent          ideas    and        information     for transmission.
• Choose and use appropriate medium/s (e.g., written, spoken,
• gestural, mathematical, visual) to convey ideas and thoughts with clarity.
• Communicate concisely and appropriately to intended audience and context.
• Ability to participate and engage in effective dialogue with others.

Be continually aware of, analyse, and construct one’s approach for effective learning.

Competencies

• Ability to reflect on one’s learning processes to draw insights.
• Demonstrate a flexibility in the identification and utilisation of effective study skills and learning strategies.
• Demonstrate self-directedness when learning.
• Diligently and persistently assess the effectiveness of one’s learning approach and regulate it according to the demands of the learning task.

Ability to make/come up with new connections, ideas and/or solutions by transcending established rules, patterns, or relationships.

• Able to critically analyse information to find gaps and opportunities.
• Able to develop ideas and alternatives and evaluate the feasibility of ideas.
• Recognise and overcome barriers to making new connections.

Work effectively with others to accomplish a common goal.

Competencies

• Leverage on communication and conflict resolution skills to work in teams.
• Demonstrate empathy by maintaining an open mind and being receptive to different perspectives.
• Synthesize multiple and varied perspectives.
• Influence and inspire others.
• Be aware of key team and collaborative processes and be able to assess them.

Go beyond one’s own frame of reference to recognise and accept different experiences and perspectives.

Competencies

• Imagine situations from another person’s perspective.
• Set aside one’s own beliefs, values, and assumptions to understand others.
• Demonstrate concern for the well-being of others.
• Understand,            accept and      respect             the        range/plurality             of perspectives, values and beliefs.
• Respect perspectives, opinions and ways of living that are different from one’s own.

To take a critical stance towards beliefs and assumptions, and existing cognitive structures to garner insights from experience.

Competencies

• Critique and examine beliefs and assumptions, cognitive structures, and learning processes.
• Understand how beliefs, assumptions, cognitive structures and learning processes contribute to decision-making and action.
• Learn from experience and adapt to change.

Ability to bounce back from setbacks and adversity.

Competencies

• Demonstrates ability to be self-aware – understanding self, emotions, thoughts, behaviours, capabilities, and choices made.
• Improve self-efficacy.
• Develop positive thinking to manage through difficult times
• Practice healthy habits to consistently perform well under pressure.
• Develop a strong social support system.
• Appreciate the role of failure in the continual re-evaluation of experiences in order to try different approaches.

Take ownership of managing one’s personal effectiveness, values clarification, and overall well-being.

Competencies

• Demonstrate ability to continually consider the consequences of one’s actions, evaluate risk and reward, and accept the consequences of outcomes.
• Understand stressors and consequences of unhealthy habits.
• Develop strategies (e.g., behavioural coping strategy, time management, cognitive coping, destress mechanisms, boundary management, priority settings, seeking support, etc.) to mitigate them.
• Understand the importance of safety and wellbeing and their impacts and be able to develop and continually refine methods to manage these for play and work.