Senior High School

Personal
Development
Quarter 1- SLAS 1
Knowing Oneself: Understanding oneself during
middle and late adolescence

FOR TANDAG CITY DIVISION USE ONLY

 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Learning Area: Personal Development Quarter: 1

Name of Learner: ______________________________________________________________
Grade Level: _________________________ Subject:_________________________________
School: _________________________________________________________________________

LEARNING ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

Week Covered: Week 1

Title of Activity: Knowing Oneself : Understanding oneself during middle and
late adolescence
Objectives
After the completion of this self learning activity sheet, you are expected to:
1. Express one’s strenght and limitation;
2. Identify one’s self by self-conceptualization; and
3. Identfy skills that can greatly increase personal efficiency.

Materials
Activity Notebook , Journal Noebook, Pen, Any Video Recording gadgets
(Cellular Phone, Camcorder)
Content Background
Self-Knowledge is derived from social interactions that provide insight into
how others react to you. It is how we think, feel, look and act. Knowing and
understanding yourself better will make you good at decision making, setting your
main goals and make you living more productive life. Self can be defined in various
ways: philosophically, psychologically, spiritually, and also in thoughts, actions,
and behaviors.

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 SEE AND BE SEEN

Activity I: SELF CONCEPT INVENTORY

Directions: Take a look at your own self-concept and answer the following self-concept
inventory in your journal. Give yourself a rating using the scale: 0 = very
weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat weak/somewhat strong; 3 = strong; 4 =
very strong.

_____ 1. I
have strong sex appeal.
_____ 2. I
am proud of my physical figure.
_____ 3. I
am physically attractive and beautiful/handsome.
_____ 4. I
exude with charm and poise.
_____ 5. I
can easily get along with.
_____ 6. I
can adjust to different people and different situations.
_____ 7. I
am approachable; other people are at ease and comfortable
with me.
_____ 8. I am lovable and easy to love.
_____ 9. I am a fast learner, can understand instruction easily.
_____ 10. I am intelligent.
_____ 11. I have special talents and abilities.
_____ 12. I can easily analyze situations and make right judgments.
_____ 13. I can be trusted in any transaction.
_____ 14. I have a clean conscience and carry no guilty feeling.
_____ 15. I have integrity and good reputation.
_____ 16. My friends and classmates can look up to me as a model worth
emulating.
_____ 17. I can express my ideas without difficulty.
_____ 18. I talk in a persuasive manner that I can easily get people to
accept what I say.
_____ 19. I can express my ideas in writing without difficulty.
_____ 20. I am a good listener.
_____ 21. I am emotionally stable and not easily rattled when faced with
trouble.
_____ 22. I am logical and rational in my outlook and decisions.
_____ 23. I feel and act with confidence.
_____ 24. I am mature person.

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Direction: Copy this table in your Activity Notebook. Write your score opposite
each number and get the subtotal.

Physical Appeal: Human Relation: Intelligence:

1. ___________ 5. ___________ 9. ___________
2. ___________ 6. ___________ 10. ___________
3. ___________ 7. ___________ 11. ___________
4. ___________ 8. ___________ 12. ___________
Sub Sub Total:____________ Sub Total:______
Total:_________
Character: Communication: Maturity:
13. ___________ 17. ___________ 21. ___________
14. ___________ 18. ___________ 22. ___________
15. ___________ 19. ___________ 23. ___________
16. ___________ 20. ___________ 24. ___________
Sub Sub Total:____________ Sub
Total:_________ Total:_______

Assessment 2
Look at the results of your self-concept inventory and answer the following
questions.

1. In what areas do you consider yourself strong (with score 14-16 or

somewhat weak (score of 10-13) and very weak (below 10)?
2. Are there qualities you consider as your weakness but other people
consider as your strength? What are these?

Example: A lady can say “I`m ugly” yet others consider her very charming. Or
conversely, one can have the illusion of saying “I am very intelligent or competent”
when most of his ideas sound unreasonable or illogical to most of the people. There
is indeed a big difference between what you see in yourself (real self-image) and
what is projected in the eyes of the others (your social image). How realistic is your
self- image? To what extent does it reflect your real self?

Activity 2
Directions: Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do you see? Do you see
your ideal self or your actual self?
In your Activity Notebook, describe the following words.
Ideal self

Actual self

Self-concept

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 Self-knowledge

Ideal self

Activity 3:

 Prepare a presentation for a Talent Show where you can exhibit your talents
and abilities through a video presentation.
 You will be given 2 days to prepare for your presentation
 You will have a solo presentation, your output will depend on what you choose
to present.
 You will be given a minimum of 30 seconds and a maximum of 1 minutes to
perform.
 Each performance shall be submitted through the link provided, the teacher
will rate the performance using these criteria:
Originality-20%;
Creativity/Resourcefulness-20%;
Confidence- 20%;
Teamwork/Coordination-20%;
Audience Impact-20%

(Please note that 5% will be automatically deducted if performance time exceeds

time allotted).

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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.).
 Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire in the process of
cognitive and practical activities.
 Knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to achieve
them and risk assessment.
 Skills also determine whether real actions are performed in accordance with
the plan. If the same ability is used many times in the same situation, then it
becomes a habit that runs automatically, subconsciously.

Here are some skills that will greatly increase the efficiency of any person who owns
them:
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.

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 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. For generating ideas you can use a method of mental maps, which
allows you to materialize, visualize and scrutinize all your ideas, which in
turn contributes to the emergence of new ideas. These are just some, but the
most important personal effectiveness skills which make the achievement of
any goal easier and less costly.

Story: You need to take charge of your future

There are three kinds of people in this world:
The first is the Moviegoer. This person watches the movie of their lives, admires
some parts and criticizes others. Aside from that, they do nothing else. All she says
the whole day is, “I like this thing and but I don’t like that thing.” The Moviegoer
feels she has absolutely no control of their lives --- except to comment about it.
Moviegoers are the most pathetic, miserable people in the world. The second is the
Actor. This person does not only watch the movie of her life. She actually realizes
she’s the Actor – and can control a big part of her life. She can actually make or
break the movie – by how well she delivers her lines and how she portrays her
character. Actors are a happy bunch, realizing they’re the start of the show and
enjoy some level of control. But many times, they wish the movie would end in
another way – but realize that they have no say in such things. The third is the
Scriptwriter. This person does not only watch, and she doesn’t only act, but she
actually creates the entire movie from her mind. She determines what she will say,
what she will do, and how the movie will end. She realizes she has enormous
control over her life, and sees to it that the movie of her life will turn out beautiful.
Shaping Interpretation:

Who are you among these three people?

Do you merely watch your life go? Why?
Or do you act out a script that you feel has been handed to you?
Or do you write the script and make your life beautiful?
From the story above, the Producer of the movie is God. He tells you, “Make the
movie
beautiful, and I will give you all that you need for success.

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Evaluation

Activity 4: My Banner

Roldan, Amelia S. (2003). On Becoming a Winner: A Workbook on Personality Development and Character
Building. AR Skills Development and Management Services (SDMS), Paranaque City, Metro Manila

Directions: From the illustration above, write the correct answer to the
corresponding statement below in your Activity Notebook.

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

BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES

Most failures emanate from weaknesses that are not recognized or probably
recognized but not given appropriate attention or remedy. This could be a weakness
in communications, personality or ability. Instead of giving up or indulging in self-
pity, take action. Go for speech lessons, get skills upgrading, attend personality
development sessions or whatever appropriate remedies to your perceived
weakness.
Abilities, build on them, utilize them to your greatest advantage. This is where you
can build your name and popularity. Handicapped people like Jose Feliciano and

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other blind singers did not brood over their physical handicap. They recognized
that they have a golden voice so they search for ways to enrich that talent and now
they have won international fame in the field of music.

Assessment 4:
Journal Reflection from My Banner
Direction: In your Activity Notebook,
Write about your banner.
1. What do you consider as your
weaknesses, abilities and talents?
2. What are the remedies you will take
to improve or compensate for your
weakness?
3. How can you further enrich your
assets and strengths?
4. Where and how do you use it to
your best advantage?

THE POWER OF JOURNAL

WRITING: UNFOLDING YOUR
PERSONAL JOURNEY

The purpose of journal writing is to

help you become the Scriptwriter of
your life. There are four (4) practical reasons to maintain a journal:

1. It is cost-efficient and available. Emotional stress can be dealt in many ways like
talking to a friend over a cup of coffee, eating, travelling, shopping, painting and
many more but writing is the most inexpensive. Notebook and pens are easy to
find, available and do not cost so much.

2. It is preventive and pro-active. Writing yields self-awareness. When you write,

you can discover your strengths and limitations. You will know what your reactions
are in different situations and what better ways to prevent, avoid, or face your
fears.

3. It is creative and productive. Journal writing expounds your imagination. You

can see various dimensions of your problem, different points of view and better
solutions.

4. Lastly, it is personal and private. Unless you want to share your stories, you
have the choice to keep them to yourself. Writing is your time alone. It is your way
of loving yourself. You will not be judged by your writing.

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You just need one (1) notebook to maintain a personal journal. You may use
these questions as you write in your journal:

1. How do you find this day? What are the positive things that happened? What are
those things that made you irritated or upset?

2. As you reflect the ups and downs of your day, what may be the greatest lesson
you can learn from them? What actions have you done well and what actions you
can do better?

3. What do you really want in life? What do you want to achieve for yourself, your
family, your community, and your country?

4. As you close the day, what are the small and big things you are thankful of?
Who are the people that made your day extra special?

Processing: Write your answers in your personal journal .

1. What have you discovered in yourself?

2. What are your core strengths?
3. What are the qualities you want to hone and improve on?

REFLECTIONS

I learned that:

I remembered that:
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
I realized that :
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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 REFERENCES

Roldan, Amelia S. (2003). On Becoming a Winner: A Workbook on Personality

Development and Character Building. AR Skills Development and
Management Services (SDMS), Paranaque City, Metro Manila.
Sanchez, Bo. (2006). Life Dreams Success Journal: Your Powerful Tool to Achieve
and Surpass Your Dreams One Step at a Time. Shepherd’s Voice
Publishing.

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Development Team of the Module

Writer: Cherie Lyn P. Jumadla, Tandag National Science High School
Editors: Eric C. Cabaluna
Reviewers: Gemma B. Espadero and Jeannette R. Isidro
Management Team: Imelda N. Sabornido
Segundino A. Madjos, Jr.
Jeanette R. Isidro
Arlene L. Abala
Gemma B. Espadero

For inquiries or feedback, please write or call:

Department of Education – Division of Tandag City

LEARNING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SECTION (LRMS)

Purok Narra, Balilahan, Mabua, Tandag City

Telephone: 214-5548

Email Address: [email protected]

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