knowing oneself a personal development activity

personal development

1. Personal Development Knowing Oneself

2. The learners demonstrate an understanding of Himself/ herself during middle and late adolescence Content standard

3. The learners shall be able to conduct self-exploration and simple disclosure Performance Standard

4. Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her strengths and limitations and dealing with other better Tell his/her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences Learning targets

5. Do you know yourself? STRONGLY AGREE / AGREE / DISAGREE / STRONGLY DISAGREE

6. The “self” is the essence of a person: his thoughts, feelings and actions, experiences, beliefs, values, principles, and relationships. The self includes a person’s life purpose, meaning, and aspirations. SELF

7. Draw a pig in your paper. Pig Analysis

8. Self- awareness or self-empowerment it is recognizing one’s inner strengths and weaknesses gives a person the capability to empower oneself. It is when one recognizes his/her traits as something very important to one’s ability to place importance on continuous learning to improve oneself SELF- AWARENESS

9. Describe yourself as honestly as possible – as you generally are now and not as you wish to be in the future. Analyze yourself in relation to other people of the same sex and of roughly the same age. Rate yourself in the following areas to help you identify your strength and weaknesses Personal Inventory Worksheet

10. Have you discover something new about yourself? What characteristic are willing to share to your classmates? Questions

11. the person’s perceptions and beliefs about himself/herself. It is what you understand about yourself. It includes your physical appearance and your body image, social character or abilities and your thinking . SELF-CONCEPT

12. 1 . Self-worth - Also called self-esteem, is the set of beliefs we hold about ourselves. - Rogers believed that for positive self-worth to develop, one has to receive unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard is acceptance no matter what a person says or does and support in spite of mistakes and shortcomings. According to Rogers, Self- Concept has three different components

13. 2 . Self-image Is how we see ourselves, such as whether we see ourselves as being attractive or unattractive 3. Ideal Self - Is the person we would like to be. - Our ideal selves have fulfilled our goals and ambitions. But the ideal self can change over time. One’s goals and ambitions today may differ from the goals and ambitions you had when you were in primary school.

14. Personality is influenced by both nature (heredity or genetic makeup) and nurture (environment ). There is no single gene that creates a trait. It is always a complex combination of genes, environmental exposure and experiences, and cultural backgrounds. Nature, Nurture and Personality

15. Psychologists Costa and McRae (1992) developed a categorized scheme that described personality. Based on their research, they discovered the existence of five universal and widely agreed upon dimensions of personality. They called it the Big Five or Five-Factor Model. Big Five or Five-Factor Model

16. Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed the Myers-Briggs personality model based on four preferences of individuals. These are: 1. E or I (Extraversion or Introversion) -Is how an individual prefers to channel his or her energy when dealing with people, whether it is inward (introversion) or outward (extraversion ) 2. S or N (sensing or intuition) -Is how one prefers to process information, whether through the use of senses such as being able to describe what one sees, or intuitively like dealing with ideas The Myers-Briggs Types Indicator

17. 3 . T or F (Thinking or Feeling) -Is how an individual prefers to make decisions, wither thinking or using logic and analysis, or feeling which uses the cognitive senses based on values or beliefs 4. J or P ( Judgement or Perception) -Is how an individual prefers to manage one’s life, whether through judging, which means a planned and organized life, versus perception, which has a more flexible approach to living The Myers-Briggs Types Indicator

18. Draw an object that would best describe yourself in the space provided below. Make sure that the object you have chosen possess the qualities that you also have (strengths and weaknesses). An object that represent myself

19. How will you nurture your strengths and how will you develop your weaknesses? Question:

20. In truth, acknowledging one’s assets and limitations is never easy – it is lifelong process. Even adults find this a very challenging process. The technique to make the process a little easier is by making choice. One has to choose to realize how valuable he/she as a person because if one is in denial about the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and characteristics that he/she has, there will be nothing in one’s life but failure.

21. Recognizing one’s inner strengths and weaknesses gives a person the capacity to empower oneself. This is called self-awareness or self-empowerment. It is when one recognizes his/her traits as something very important to one’s ability to place importance on continuous learning to improve oneself.

22. Self-concept is an understanding of who you are as a person. When you recognize that you hate rudeness, this is part of your self-concept.