PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

PERDEV
• The subject matter for this course is
THEMSELVES!
• This course shall make the students
take a deeper look at themselves and
analyze their developmental changes,
their skills and traits which can help
them meet the various tasks that they
must undertake at this point in their
lives.
• It shall provide them with some
techniques to meet stress and other
mental health issues with their own
strengths and coping powers.
• The course shall also give them the
chance to analyze their relationships
with their family, friends and
significant others.
 Units in PERDEV
• Unit 1 – Self-Development
• Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal
Development
• Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining
Relationships
• Unit 4 - Career Development.
 REQUIREMENTS FOR PERDEV
• The students should have a JOURNAL
NOTEBOOK in which they will write their reflections,
insights, comments and opinions. This will be
collected every week.
• They should also have a PORTFOLIO (a clear book.
This is where they will store all the reflections,
research outputs, journal entries, survey
questionnaires, and other written materials and
artwork which they do as class work, seatwork, or
homework for PERDEV.
• The portfolio will be collected after grading period for
checking and recording.
 MODULE 1:
Knowing and Understanding
Oneself during Middle and
Late Adolescence
Activity:

•What’s in a name
 Learning Competencies/
Objectives:
• Explain that knowing oneself can make a
person accept his/her strengths and
limitations and dealing with others better
(EsP-PD11/12KO-Ia-1.1)
• Share his/her unique characteristics,
habits, and experiences (EsP-
PD11/12KO-Ia-1.2)
• Maintain a journal (EsP-PD11/12KO-Ia-
1.3)
SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
 How do you perceive
yourself?
• In what areas do you consider
yourself strong (with score 14-16 or
somewhat weak (score of 10-13) and
very weak (below 10)?
• Are there qualities you consider as
your weakness but other people
consider as your strength? What are
these? Check with a partner.
• What does your score tell
you?
• Based from your answer
how will you define self-
concept?
 SELF-CONCEPT

• Have you look at yourself in

a mirror this morning?
• What do you see?
• Do you see your ideal self
or your actual self?
 IDEAL SELF
• 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.
• The ideal self, 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.
ACTUAL SELF
• Actual Self 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 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.
 SELF-CONCEPT
• Self-concept refers to your awareness of
yourself.
• It is the construct that negotiates the
actual and ideal selves. It is
• It is the identification of the ideal self as
separate from others,
• It encompasses all the behaviors
evaluated in the actual self that you
engage in to reach the ideal self.
• If the way that I am (the actual
self) is aligned with the way
that I want to be (the ideal
self), then I will feel a sense of
mental well-being or peace of
mind.
• If the way that I am(AS) is not aligned
with how I want to be (IS) , the
incongruence, or lack of alignment,
will result in mental distress or
anxiety.
• higher alignment between these two
personality domains will result to
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
• Paper and pen:

•How will you describe

YOUR self-concept?
 Assignment: Group Activity
• Prepare for a talent or variety
show.
• Rubrics:
–Originality-25%;
–Creativity/Resourcefulness-25%;
–Teamwork/ Coordination-25%;
–Audience Impact-25%.
Review:

• What is self-concept?
• What is the difference
between ideal self and
actual self?
 Activity:
SEARCH FOR OUTSTANDING
QUALITIES
• The best way to develop oneself is to express their talents and
gifts
• Each group is given a minimum of 7 minutes and a maximum of
10 minutes to perform.
• Rubrics:
– Originality-25%;
– Creativity/Resourcefulness-25%;
– Teamwork/ Coordination-25%;
– Audience Impact-25%.
 Portfolio Output No. 2: Talent
/ Variety Show Presentation
• The leaders of each group shall rate the performance
of each group based on the following criteria:
– originality (4 points),
– creativity/resourcefulness (4 points)
– teamwork (4 points
– audience impact (4 points), for a maximum of 16
points.
– Each student computes the average rating for their
group and records it in their journal. They write
about their experience as a group leader/member in
this activity.
– Paste a picture of your performance
Processing:
• What have you observed with the
presentation?
• What did you feel while waiting for
your turn to perform?
• What did you feel while performing?
After preforming?
• What did you earn from the activity?
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: TEKS
• Talents 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.
•What do you think are
the skills need in order
to personal
effectiveness?
•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.
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, walking, and physical condition.
3. Persistence. It makes you keep moving forward
regardless of emerging obstacles – problems,
laziness, bad emotional state, etc.
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.
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.
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
Recitation:

•Do you discover

something about
your self today?
 Assignment:

• Bring short bond paper

tomorrow, ruler and pencil
Review:

• What is personal
effectiveness?
•What are the skills that
will greatly increase the
personal efficiency?
 Story Reading:

•You Need To Take

Charge of Your Future
• What do you think of the
story?
• What is the message of
the story?
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
In the spaces indicated by numbers,
write down the following

• 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 come 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
 BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND WORK
ON YOUR WEAKNESSES

• Instead of simply focusing on your

weaknesses, recognize your own talents
and abilities, build on them, utilize them
to your greatest advantage. This is
where you can build your name and
popularity
 Portfolio Output No. 2: Journal
Reflection from My Banner
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?
Review:

• Why do we have to know our

selves better? What’s in it for
us?
• Why do we have to accept and
learn from our failures?
 Story Reading

• You need to take charge of

your future and ask
motivational questions based
from the story.
Reflect on the following:
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 on 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,
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?
Portfolio Output No. 3:
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?
Thank You !!