UNIT 1

SELF DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 1: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING
ONESELF DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

Melchie P.Veluz, LPT, MAEd GC

 SELF- CONCEPT
LEARNING COMPETENCIES/OBJECTIVES: The learners….
1. Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her strengths and limitations and dealing with
others better
2. Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences
3. Maintain a journal
 ACTIVITY: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
Give yourself a rating using the scale:
0 – very weak 1 – weak 2 – somewhat weak or strong 3 – strong 4 – very strong 13. I can be trusted in any transaction.
14. I have a clean conscience and carry no guilt feeling.
1. I have strong sex appeal. 15. I have integrity and good reputation.
2. I am proud of my physical figure. 16. My friends and classmates can look up to me as a model worth
3. I am physically attractive and beautiful/handsome. emulating.
4. I exude with charm and poise. 17. I can express my ideas in writing without difficulty.
5. I am easy to get along with. 18. I talk in a persuasive manner that I can easily get people to
6. I can adjust to different people and different situations. accept what I say.
7. I am approachable; other people are at ease and comfortable with me. 19. I can express my ideas in writing without difficulty.
8. I am lovable and easy to love. 20. I am good listener.
9. I am a fast learner, can understand with one instruction. 21. I am emotionally stable and not easily rattled when faced with
10. I am intelligent. trouble.
11. I have special talents and abilities. 22. I am logical and rational in my outlook and decisions.
12. I can easily analyze situations and make right judgments. 23. I feel and act with confidence.
24. I am a mature person.
 Scoring: Write your score opposite each number and get the subtotal.

Physical appeal Human Relations Intelligence Character Communications Maturity

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4. __________ 8. ________ 12. _______ 16. _____ 20. _______ 24. ________
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How do you perceive yourself?

1. In what areas do you consider yourself strong, somewhat weak and very weak?
2. Are these qualities you consider as your weakness, but other people consider as your strength? What are these?
3. How realistic is your self-image?
4. To what extent does it reflect your real self?
 SELF - CONCEPT
Broad categories

Ideal Self Actual Self

✔ Refers to your awareness of yourself.

✔ It is the construct that negotiates these
two selves.
Is built on self-knowledge.
Is how we want to be. ✔ It connotes first the identification of the
Is the one that you actually see.
It is an idealized image that we ideal self as separate from others
It is the self that has
have developed over time, ✔ Second it encompasses all the behaviors
characteristics that you were
based on what we have learned evaluated in the actual self that you
nurtured or, in some cases, born
and experiences. engage in to reach the ideal self.
to have.
Could include components of
Is who we actually are.
what our parents have taught
It is how we think, how we feel,
us, what we admire in others,
look, and act.
what our society promotes, and
It is our self-image.
what we think is our best
interest.
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.
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.
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 actions that no one has tried to use. It can lead to a
decrease or an increase of costs, but usually the speed of actions 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.
 The power of Journal Writing: Unfolding your Personal Journey

The purpose of journal writing is to help you become the Scriptwriter of your life. 4 practical reasons to maintain a journal.

1. It is cost-efficient and available. Emotional stress can be dealt Sample questions in writing your journal:
in many ways like talking to friend over a cup of coffee, eating, 1. How do you find this day? What are the positive things that
travelling, shopping, painting and many more but writing is the happened? What are those things that made you irritated or upset?
most inexpensive. Notebook and pens are easy to find, available 2. As you reflect the ups and downs of your day, what may be the
and do not cost so much. greatest lesson you can learn from them? What actions have you done
2. It is preventive and pro-active. Writing yields self-awareness. well and what actions you can do better?
When you write, you can discover your strengths and 3. What do you really want in life? What do you want to achieve for
limitations. You will know what your reactions are in different yourself, your family, your community, and your country?
situations and what better ways to prevent, avoid, or face your 4. As you close the day, what are the small and big things you are
fears. thankful of? Who are the people that made your day extra special.
3. It is creative and productive. Journal writing expounds your 5. What have you discovered in yourself?
imagination. You can see various dimensions of your problem, 6. What are your core strengths?
different points of view and better solutions. 7. What are the qualities you want to hone and improve on?
4. Lastly, it is personal and private. Unless you want to share
your stories, you have the choice to keep them to yourself. “A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to
Writing is your time alone. It is your way of loving yourself. fix a man’s attention and inflame his ambition”
You will not be judged by your writing.
John Adams
 LIST OF OUTPUTS FOR PORTFOLIO
1. Talent/Variety Show Presentation (Group Work)
2. Journal Reflection from My Banner (Individual work)
Portfolio 2 - 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
 UNIT 1
SELF DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 2: DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON
 DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON
LEARNING COMPETENCIES/OBJECTIVES: The learners….
1. Discuss the relationship among physiological, cognitive, psychological, spiritual and social aspects of
development, to understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
2. Evaluate your own thoughts, feelings and actions, and
3. Show the connection of your thoughts, feeling and actions to actual life situations.
 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF YOURSELF
1. PHYSICAL SELF – how an individual views his health condition,
✔ The self-concept is represented by several aspects of the self.
body, and physical appearance.
✔ It is conceived as collection of multiple, context-dependent
2. INTELLECTUAL SELF – the ability to apply logic, knowledge and selves.
understanding in your everyday actions as a human being. ✔ This construct believes that context activates particular
3. EMOTIONAL SELF - is the ability to understand your own regions of self-knowledge and self-relevant feedback affects
emotions and their effects on your performance. self-evaluations and affect.
4. SENSUAL SELF - pleasure transcends sexuality, the ability to enjoy ✔ A deeper look on the different aspects of self can identify
your all five senses. specific areas for self-regulation, stability and improvement.
5. INTERACTIONAL SELF – the descriptions of someone’s strengths
or advantages and weaknesses in intimate relationships.
6. NUTRITIONAL SELF – nourishing yourself, the food do you like
and dislike.
7. CONTEXTUAL SELF – is a person’s view of his attitude towards
himself, this view can be physical, self-characteristics, and also
self-motivated.
8. SPIRITUAL SELF OR LIFE FORCE – meaning, value,
transcendence, connecting (with oneself, others, God/supreme power
and the environment), and becoming (the growth and progress in life)
3 SUCCESS STORIES
 A REAL WINNER is one who can:

Win over his/her battles and difficulties in life and turns them into a learning and glorifying experience;
Find meaning in pleasant and unpleasant events in his life;
Live in peace with difficult people and difficult situations;
Win the goodwill of others, their respects and admiration;
Get what he wants using win-win strategies; never at the expense of others;
Discover and use opportunities to his best advantage;
Develop and use his talents and abilities to the best advantage and in so doing, make meaningful contribution in
making this world a better place to live in.
 LIST OF OUTPUTS FOR PORTFOLIO
3. Personal Assessment of Aspects of Development with Plan of Action (individual work)
4. Personal Recipe for success with reflection (individual work)

Portfolio 3 – Aspects of Development Portfolio 4 – Personal Recipe for Success with Reflection
❑ Write about the 8 segments of your development ❑ Make your personal recipe for achieving personal goals
❑ Identify your goal
Sample of recipes: Recipe for Academic Success
1 galloon – listening
Recipe for Success ½ galloon – kindness
5 cups – creativity
Ingredients: 3 cups – responsibility
5 cups – respect
1 tsp of ideas 2 cups – time management
½ - patience
1 pinch of positivity
1 LB of leadership Direction:
1st, mix listening and kindness in a large school. Then add
1 cup of market vision respect and creativity. After that mix responsibility, time
management and patience in a classroom. Add mixes together
1 bag of hope and enjoy a happy life.
 UNIT 1
SELF DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 3: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND
LATE ADOLESCENCE
 DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES IN MIDDLE AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
LEARNING COMPETENCIES/OBJECTIVES: The learners….
1. Classify various developmental tasks according to developmental stage,
2. Evaluate your development in comparison with persons of the same age group, and
3. List ways to become a responsible adolescent prepared for adult life.
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
STAGE

❖ Human development focuses on human growth 1. PRE-NATAL (Conception to Age when hereditary endowments and sex are fixed and all body features, both
and changes across the lifespan, including external and internal are developed.
birth)
physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, 2. INFANCY (Birth – 2 years) Foundation age when basic behavior are organized, and many ontogenetic
personality and emotional growth. maturation skills are developed.
❖ The study of human developmental stages is 3. EARLY CHILDHOOD (2-6 Pre-gang age, exploratory, and questioning. Language and elementary
reasoning are acquired, and initial socialization is experienced.
essential to understanding how humans learn, years)
mature and adapt. 4. LATE CHILDHOOD (6 – Gang and creativity age when self-help skills, social skills, school skills, and
❖ Throughout their lives, humans go through 12 years) play are developed.

various stages of development. 5. ADOLESCENCE (puberty – Transition age from childhood to adulthood when sex maturation and rapid
❖ The human being is either in a state of growth 18 years) physical development occur resulting to changes in ways of feeling, thinking
and acting.
or decline, but either condition imparts change.
❖ Some aspects of our life change very little over 6. EARLY ADULTHOOD (18 Age of adjustment to new patterns of life and roles such as spouse, parent and
bread winner.
time, are consistent. Other aspects change – 40 years)
dramatically, by understanding these changes, we 7. MIDDLE AGE (40 years to Transition age when adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are
experienced.
can better respond and plan effectively. retirement)
8. OLD AGE (Retirement to Retirement age when increasingly rapid physical and mental decline are
experienced.
death)
 HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS DURING THE LIFE SPAN

INFANCY AND EARLY MIDDLE CHILDHOOD ADOLESCENCE (13-18) EARLY ADULTHOOD MIDDLE LATE MATURITY
CHILDHOOD (0-5) (6-12) (19-30) ADULTHOOD (30-60) (61-100)

✔ Learning to walk Learning physical skills ▪ Achieving mature ❖ Selecting a mate ❑ Helping teenage • Adjusting to
✔ Learning to take solid foods necessary for ordinary relations with both sexes ❖ Learning to live with a children to become decreasing strength
✔ Learning to talk games ▪ Achieving a masculine or partner responsible adults and health
✔ Learning to control the Building a wholesome feminine social role ❖ Starting a family ❑ Achieving adult social • Adjusting to
elimination of body wastes attitude toward oneself ▪ Accepting one’s physique ❖ Rearing children and civic responsibility retirement and
✔ Learning sex differences and Learning to get along with ▪ Achieving emotional ❖ Managing a home ❑ Satisfactory career reduced income
sexual modesty age-mates independence of adults ❖ Starting an occupation achievement • Adjusting to death of
✔ Acquiring concepts and Learning an appropriate sex ▪ Preparing for marriage ❖ Assuming civic ❑ Developing adult spouse
language to describe social and role and family life responsibility leisure time activities • Establishing
physical reality Developing fundamental ▪ Preparing for an economic ❑ Relating to one’s relations with one’s
✔ Readiness for reading skills in reading, writing, career spouse as a person own age group
✔ Learning to distinguish right and calculating ▪ Acquiring values and an ❑ Accepting the • Meeting social and
from wrong and developing a Developing concepts ethical system to guide physiological changes civic obligations
conscience necessary for everyday behavior of middle age • Establishing
living ▪ Desiring and achieving ❑ Adjusting to aging satisfactory living
Developing conscience, socially responsibility parent quarters
morality, and scale of values behavior
Achieving personal
independence
Developing acceptable
attitudes toward society
 LIST OF OUTPUTS FOR PORTFOLIO
5. My Personal Timeline with Reflection (individual work)
6. Mindfulness with Reflection (individual work) ✔ Use this question to answer for the reflection
Portfolio 5 – My Personal Timeline with Reflection of your timeline.
✔ A personal timeline portrays the influential events and 1. Is there a “center” or central theme in your
happenings of a person’s life so that he can understand timeline and life? If you will give a title for your
where he has gone wrong and right in the past. timeline what would it be and why?
✔ It helps to plan the future in a better constructive way. 2. Identify the turning points in your timeline.
✔ Using a bond paper, write the major events in your life and What were the thoughts, feelings and actions
the significant people in your life. that you experienced?
✔ You may add your age, specific dates and places. 3. Who are/were the most significant people in
✔ You may draw the timeline horizontally, vertically, diagonally your life? How did they influence you?
or even using ups and down depending on your 4. What would you change or add, if you could?
imagination. How would each of these changes or additions
✔ Be creative in your presentations. You may also use affect your life, or even change its present
symbols, figures and drawings. Think a title for your course?
timeline.
 UNIT 1
SELF DEVELOPMENT
MODULE 4:THE CHALLENGES OF MIDDLE AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
 THE CHALLENGES OF MIDDLE AND LATE
ADOLESCENCE
LEARNING COMPETENCIES/OBJECTIVES: The learners….
1. Discuss how facing the challenges during adolescence, you may able to clarify and manage the demands of
teen years,
2. Express your feelings on the expectations of the significant people around you, such as your parents, siblings,
friends, teachers, community leaders, and
3. Make affirmations that help you become more lovable and capable as an adolescent.
 THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD: CHALLENGES OF LATE
ADOLESCENCE

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age ✔ May stress over school and test scores.
15. ✔ Is self-involved (may have high expectations and low self-concept).
Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and ✔ Seeks privacy and time alone.
are completing the development of sexual traits. ✔ Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
✔ May complain that parents prevent him or her from doing things
independently.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ✔ Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in
❖ Shifts in relationship with parents from dependency and subordination relationships.
to one that reflects the adolescent’s increasing maturity and ✔ The experience of intimate partnerships.
responsibilities in the family and the community.
❖ Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.
❖ Seek friends that share the same beliefs, values, and interests. MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
❖ Friends become more important. ❑ Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms of the future.
❖ Starts to have more intellectual interests. ❑ Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.
❖ Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others. ❑ Starts to develop moral ideas and select role models.
❖ May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco,,
sex).
 LIST OF OUTPUTS FOR PORTFOLIO
7. Role Play on Challenges of middle adolescence (group work)
8. Slogan or Personal Declaration on Being Happy (individual work)

Portfolio 7 – Role Play on Challenges of Middle Adolescence

✔ Plan a role play on a specific situation in which a
developmental challenge of middle adolescence is seen in Portfolio 8 – Slogan or Personal Declaration on Being Happy
your everyday living. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.
✔ Practice your role play with your group mates. Choose a phrase, sentence, or paragraph that strikes you.
✔ Perform your role in class. Make a slogan or personal declaration on how you can be
committed to your self-development.
Explain your thoughts and feelings about it. Include
specific ways in which you will develop yourself further.
 BEING HAPPY

You may have defects, be anxious and sometimes live irritated, but do not Being happy is not being afraid of one’s feelings. It is to know how to
forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can talk about ourselves. It is to bear with courage when hearing a “no”. It isto
prevent it from going into decadence. There are many that need you, admire have the security to receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is to kiss the
you and love you. children, pamper the parents, have poetic moments with friends, even if
I would like to remind you that being happy is not having a sky without they have hurt us.
storms, or roads without accidents, or work without fatigue, or relationships Being happy means allowing the free, happy and simple child inside
without disappointments. each of us to live; having the maturity to say, “I was wrong”; having the
Being happy is finding strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s battles, audacity to say, “forgive me”. It is to have sensitivity in expressing, :I need
security at the stage of fear, love in disagreements. you”; to have the ability of saying, “I love you.” So that your life becomes a
Being happy is not only to treasure the smile, but that you also reflect on garden full of opportunities for being happy.
the sadness. It is not just commemorating the event, but also learning lessons in In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In your winter,
failures. It is not just having joy with applause, but also having joy in anonymity. may you become a friend of wisdom. And when you go wrong along the
Being happy is to recognize that it is worthwhile to live, despite all the way, you start all over again. Thus, you will be more passionate about life.
challenges, misunderstandings and times of crises. And you will find that happiness is not about having a perfect life but about
Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory for those who can travel using tears to water tolerance, losses to refine patience, failures to carve
towards it with your own being. serenity, pain to lapidate pleasure, obstacles to open the windows of
Being happy is to stop being a victim of problems but become an actor in intelligence.
history itself. It is not to cross the deserts outside of ourselves, but still more, Never give up..Never give up on the people you love. Never give up
to be able to find an oasis in the recesses of our soul. It is to thank God every from being happy because life is an incredible show. And you are special
morning for the miracle of life. human being!