PD Lesson 1

LESSON 1:
Knowing and Understanding

Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescents.
How can understanding yourself pave the way to
self-acceptance and better relationship with
others?
SESSION TOPIC : SELF-CONCEPT
TIME FRAME : WEEK 2, SESSION 1
LESSON HOURS : 1.5 HRS.
CONTENT : The learners demonstrate an understanding of him/herself during the
STANDARD middle and late adolescence.
PERFORMANCE : The learners shall be able to conduct self-exploration and simple
STANDARD disclosure.
: a. Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her
LEARNING strengths and limitations and dealing with others better,
COMPETENCIES b. Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences.
c. Maintain a good journal.
LESSON CONTENT
Self – Concept
Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do you see? Do you see your ideal self or your actual
self? Your ideal self is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess
characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure. Your actual self, however, is
the one that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some
cases, born to have.
The actual self and the ideal self are two broad categories of self-concept. Self-concept refers to your
awareness of yourself. It is the construct that negotiate es these two selves. In other words, it connotes
first the identification of the ideal self as separate from others, and second, it encompasses all the
behaviors evaluated in the actual self that you engage in to reach the ideal self.
The actual self is built on self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is derived from social interactions that
provide insight into how others react to you. The actual self is who we actually are. It is how we think,
how we feel, look, and act. The actual self can be seen by others, but because we have no way of truly
knowing how others view us, the actual self is our self-image.
The ideal self, on the other hand, is how we want to be. It is an idealized image that we have
developed over time, based on what we have learned and experienced. The ideal self could include
components of what our parents have taught us, what we admire in others, what our society promotes,
and what we think is in our best interest.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PREPARED BY: CARL KEVIN VAL E. YBAÑEZ
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources – talents, skills, energy
and time, to enable you to achieve life goals. Your knowledge of yourself and how you manage
yourself impacts directly on your personal effectiveness. Being self-aware, making the most of your
strengths, learning new skills and techniques and behavioral flexibility are all keys to improving your
personal performance. Our personal effectiveness depends on our innate characteristics – talent and
experience accumulated in the process of personal development. Talents first are needed to be
identified and then developed to be used in a particular subject area (science, literature, sports,
politics, etc.).
1. Determination. It allows you to focus only on achieving

a specific goal without being distracted by less important
things or spontaneous desires. It may be developed with
the help of self-discipline exercise.
2. Self-confidence. It appears in the process of personal

development, as a result of getting aware of yourself, your
actions and their consequences. Self-confidence is
manifested in speech, appearance, dressing, gait, and
physical condition. To develop it, you need to learn
yourself and your capabilities, gain positive attitude and
believe that by performing right actions and achieving
right goals you will certainly reach success.
3. Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles –

problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc. It reduces the costs of overcoming obstacles. It can also be
developed with the help of self-discipline exercise.
4. Managing stress. It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and
other people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of
information creates the risk of negative consequences of your actions. It increases efficiency
in the actively changing environment.
5. Problem-solving skills. They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of
experience. It increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining
a new experience.
6. Creativity. It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one
has tried to use. It can lead to a decrease or an increase of costs, but usually the speed of
action is greatly increased when using creative tools.
7. Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea
is a mental image of an object formed by the human mind, which can be changed before
being implemented in the real world.
Activity: MY BANNER – The Treasure within ME!
In the spaces indicated by numbers write down the following:

1 and 2 two things I do very well
3 and 4 my two greatest achievements in life
5 what in myself am I proudest of
6 my happiest moment
7 positive words that my friends use to describe me
8 a personal goal that I have already achieved
9 three blessings for which I am most thankful to God
10 three of my positive qualities
11 difficulties, challenges and problems that I was able to solve and overcome
REFLECTION
1. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities, and talent?
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2. What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weakness?
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LESSON 1:

Knowing and Understanding

1. Determination. It allows you to focus only on achieving

2. Self-confidence. It appears in the process of personal

3. Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles –

In the spaces indicated by numbers write down the following:

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