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LESSON TITLE:
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
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Quarter No: 1 Week No: 1
MELC:
Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept
his/her strengths and limitations and dealing with others
better.
Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and
experiences.
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Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
Division of Ilocos Sur
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Name of Teacher – Writer: ARGHEL S. CALIJA
School: MABILBILA INTEGRATED SCHOOL
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Good day our dear learner! It's good to be with you today. Now that we are in
the "new normal" of the education system, it is very important that you will study the
lessons inside or outside of our school. This Self-Learning Kit will enhance your
selflearning ability as this gives you supplementary activity and creative tool to increase
your ability to develop other skills in order to understand the different lesson to be
undertaken in the subject, Personal Development. You will be able to know and
understand oneself using available materials and appropriate techniques in this SLK.
Read and understand this SLK carefully. Seriously answer all the given
activities and assessments in order to measure the knowledge and skills that you will
acquire in the lesson.Take full responsibility and manage your time wisely in
completing the activities and assessments.
Remember that reading the instruction carefully before doing each activity and
assessment will be of great help to ensure that you’ve done it right. In answering the
given activities and assessments, use your notebook. Please DO NOT WRITE
anything in this SLK. Dear learner, God bless and happy learning!
Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her strengths
and limitations and dealing with others better.
Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences.
Specific Objectives:
1. Explain that knowledge about themselves will allow for acceptance
of one’s own strengths and limitations that can lead to better
human relationships.
2. Value the act of sharing their unique characteristics, habits, and
experiences.
3. Showcase his/her own talent.
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Direction: Choose from the characteristics listed below that you think it serve as your
strengths. Use your choices in making a caricature or any visual representation of yourself.
CHARACTERISTICS
PHYSICAL APPEAL HUMAN RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE
CHARACTER COMMUNICATION MATURITY
You take a look at your own self. You need to do the following self-
concept reflection in your journal notebook.
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Activity 1. SELF-CONCEPT REFLECTION
What is self-concept?
The term self-concept is used to mention how you thinks, discern and assess about yourself
and to your level of awareness of yourself.
What are two broad category of self-concept?
The following
words are used
to relate the
state of personality.
A. The actual self is who you actually are. It is your awareness of what you think, how
you feel, look, and act. These can be seen by others, but you have no idea of how
others see you, the actual self is simply your self image. Self image is the perspective
you have on yourself.
B. The Ideal Self is how you really wish you were or want to be. It is a created image that
you have developed for a period of time, based upon what you have learned and your
personal life's experiences.
Is there any chances or assurance that you can see your being by
merely staring yourself in the mirror?
Imagine that you are staring into the mirror. What do you see? Do you see
your ideal self or your actual self?
You will find in the discussion here about self-concept, and its two broad
categories.
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Five simple ways to improve your personal strengths
1. Avoid comparing yourself to others – you can talk to someone who encourage or give
you hope, and even to those who intimidate you.
2. You should concentrate more on your strength rather than your weaknesses.
3. Get rid of your weaknesses through collaboration with others.
4. When you failed, think of what you learned and use it as motivation.
5. Use your time wisely as you take part in groups or organizations which have programs
in leadership skills and aim for success.
Five simple ways to convert your weaknesses into strengths
1. Recognize and accept your weakness.
2. Focus and convert to the right strengths that is almost exactly opposite of your
weaknesses. Examples: unrealistic-visionary; talkative-expressive, etc.
3. Seek advice in dealing with your struggles.
4. Consider hiring and seeking for knowledgeable people to train or coach you to fulfill
the skills you want to improve.
In activity 1 you have already identified your strengths and
weaknesses. Here are some advice on how you can build on your strengths
and work on your weaknesses.
*Images are owned by the teacher-writer.
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5. Spend your time practicing at something you want to be good at, do not waste your
time wishing you were good at it.
Activity 2. Anagram
Directions: Arrange the rumbled letters to get the right word for the category “Self –
Empowerment”. Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.
1 S E L L E R T I N I
2 T H E A N T I C S
I U S
3 D I A R Y T A X R O N E R
4 C U R I O S G A
5 T H U F F A I L
6 B O L E N
7 S E N P A I T O A S
8 D O C U F S E
9 S I S T E R P E N C E
10 S I T C O M T I P I
Activity 3. Fill Me In
Directions:Complete the crossword by filling in a word that fits its corresponding synonym.
Category: Self Esteem
How do you feel now? I think we have so much fun learning about
self-concept.
It is now time to test your knowledge.
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Horizontal
1 The state of being thankful
4 Dedication for something
6 Victor
7 Good looking
8 Faithful
Vertical
2 Treating people well
3 People who can keep confidential matter
5 Amazing
9 The ability of the mind to be creative
10 Joyful
Activity 4. One Pic One Word
Directions: Complete the word by filling in a word in the box that fits each picture as the clue.
Category: Self-concept
1.
2. 3.
4.
5.
*Images are owned by the teacher-writer.
1 2 3 10
9
4 5
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By knowing and being aware of your self-concept, you will be led to carefully and wisely
choose the things you will or will not do in a certain time. Therefore, it will shape your unique
characteristics to fulfill your preferred goals in life.
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.
1. Careful and thorough use of all personal resources determines your personal effectiveness
that will lead you to achieve your desired goal in life. Which of the following refers to your
personal resources?
I. Energy and Time
II. Skiils
III. Talents
You are now ready to have a recap if you really understand what you
have read.
Activity 5. Nurture Your Talents Within
Perform an act that will display your talent/skill. Take a video of yourself
with the minimum length of 2 minutes and maximum length of 5 minutes.
And answer the question: “Why there is a need to share your unique
talent?” after your presentation.
Submit the video and your outcome(if it is a drawing, an art, etc.) to your
teacher through messenger or email.
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. A. I and II B. II and III C. I and III D. I, II and III
2. “Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them”
by Daniel Chidiac is a quote that can be relate to ___________.
A. Actual Self B. Ideal Self C. Self-Concept D. Self-Image
3. Complete the saying “No man is an ___________.”
A. Animal B. Insect C. Island D. Ocean
4. Maria wore a teacher’s uniform during the career guidance celebration. Wearing such a
dress reflects her ____________.
A. Actual Self B. Ideal Self C. Internal Self D. Social Self
5. Tasyo has a feeling of self-assurance that he can be a good leader to in their school. This
refer to what characteristic?
A. Self-Development B. Self-Esteem C. Self-Image D. Self-Love
Assessment 2. Know Your Label
Directions: Read each item carefully. Match the statement from column A to the
corresponding characteristics from column B. Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.
A B
1. I am likeable and easy to love. A. Character
2. I am logical and reasonable in my views and decisions. B. Communication
3. I can express my ideas smoothly and without difficulty. C. Human Relationship
4. I can easily interpret situations and make right judgments. D. Intelligence
5. I can easily understand the directions in the first instruction. E. Maturity
F. Physical Appeal
Assessment 3. Short Essay
Direction: Read and analyze each item carefully. Complete the statement by writing your
answer in your notebook. Limit your answer in three (3) to five (5) sentences.
1. In this lesson, I discovered things in myself
_____________________________________. 2. My core
strengths_________________________________________________________. 3. My
weaknesses __________________________________________________________. 4.
The qualities that I want to hone and improve ___________________________________.
5. My dream is to become____________________________________________________.
Assessment 1. Multiple Choice
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