Personal Development

Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Knowing and Understanding
Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence
Personal Development
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence

First Edition, 2020

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Personal Development
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Knowing and Understanding
Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Personal Development – Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery

Mode (ADM) Module on Personal Development!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators

both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in
helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration
their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Personal Development – Grade 11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode

(ADM) Module on Personal Development!

The hand is one of the most symbolized part of the human body. It is often used to
depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and
accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a
learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant
competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in
your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be
enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process
what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or

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 skill into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given

to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of
the lesson learned. This also tends retention
of learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in

developing this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the nature of Personal Development. The scope of this module permits it to
be used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the
diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the
standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be
changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.

The module is divided into three lessons, namely:

 Lesson 1 – Self-Concept
 Lesson 2 – Personal Effectiveness
 Lesson 3 – Journal Writing

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Learn 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. Start and maintain a journal

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 What I Know

Write True if the statement is correct and False if the statement is incorrect.
Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Ideal Self is derived from social interactions that provide insight into how
others react to you.
2. The actual self are the characteristics that you are born to have.
3. Your awareness of yourself is called self-concept.
4. Self-knowledge is an image we want ourselves to be.
5. Our ideal self could include factors of what our parents taught us, what we
see from others, our best interest and what the society promotes on us.
6. Personal effectiveness refers to making use of all your personal resources
such as talents, skills, energy and time to achieve your life goals.
7. Your persistence will help you move forward regardless of the obstacles you
may encounter.
8. Knowing yourself does not have any impact in your personal effectiveness.
9. Understanding yourself doesn’t have anything to do with having better
relationships with other people.
10.Determination allows you to focus achieving your specific goals without
being distracted.
11.Self-image is derived from social interactions on how other people will react
to you.
12.Being self-aware will make you determine your own skills, talents,
weaknesses, strengths and even limitations.
13.Skills are not necessary in achieving goals.
14. The actual self can’t be seen by others.
15.One must manage how to combat stress in order to increase efficiency.

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Lesson

1 KNOWING ONESELF

In ancient Greece, the famous philosopher Socrates emphasized that an

unexamined life was not worth living hence you have to know thyself while on the
other hand, another Greek philosopher named Aristotle also stated that knowing
yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Have you ever asked yourself the question “Who am I?” How much do you
know well about yourself? How do you discover and develop yourself?

This lesson is focused on discovering yourself, accepting your weaknesses

and limitations might as well as making use of your strength to make you
understand yourself and deal with other people better.

What’s In

Personal Development is a very interesting course and is an essential part of

a person’s success and happiness. It will consist of ideas and techniques to
improve yourself and views in life. Personal growth and development is a never-
ending process. It can sometimes be hard and conflicting but the reward is
fulfilling. All you have to do is enjoy the journey!

Notes to the Teacher

This unit will help us connect to the students as they understand
themselves better.

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 What’s New

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Look at yourself in a mirror, what can you see? List down on the boxes below
the things you can perceive as you look at yourself and the things you wish you
were. Use your journal to do this activity.

WHAT I SEE WHAT I WISH TO SEE

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What is It

As you look into the mirror, you can actually see your actual self. These are
the traits we are born with and nurtured as we grow. 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. It 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.
However, there are certain thoughts that as we look at other people, we wish
to have the traits they have. This is when we thought of our ideal self. This include
components of what our parents have taught us, what our society promotes, what
we admire in others and what we think best for ourselves. The actual self and the
ideal self are two broad categories of self-concept which refers to your awareness
of yourself.

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Lesson

2 Personal Effectiveness

Knowing oneself must grow deeper with the understanding of discovering

yourself, on how you react on things, decide, relate on your surroundings, and
giving importance to your strengths and limitations.
In order to do so, you need as well to make use of your talents, skills, energy
and time to achieve your goals. This is called personal effectiveness and your
knowledge to yourself makes a direct impact on this. Talents are first needed to be
identified and developed. Experience includes knowledge and skills that we acquire
in the process. Your knowledge is required for setting goals, defining an action
plan to achieve them and risk assessment while skills determine whether your
actions are performed according to your plan. Below are the skills that will help you
increase your efficiency:

 Determination - It allows you to focus only on achieving a specific

goal
without being distracted by less important things or spontaneous
desires.
 Self-confidence - It appears in the process of personal development,
as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their
consequences.
 Persistence – It makes you help keep moving forward regardless of
emerging obstacles.
 Managing Stress – It helps you combat stress that arises in daily life
from the environment and other people.
 Problem-solving skills – They help you cope with the problems
encountered with lack of experience.
 Creativity – It allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a
specific action that no one has tried to use.
 Generating ideas – This helps you to achieve goals using new,
original and unconventional ideas.

Lesson

3 Journal Writing

The purpose of Journal Writing is to help you set goals, reflect and track
your daily growth by jotting it down in a piece of notebook. It yields self-awareness
in which way you will know what your reactions are in different situations. It will
also boost your imagination. In addition, writing is your time alone. It is a way of
loving yourself more and not letting anyone judge you.

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 What’s More

Activity 1.1 Personal Identity Wheel

In order to know yourself, you have first to identify the basic information.
Below is a personal identity wheel that will help you know yourself better. Create
this activity in your journal.

Activity 1.2 Who Are You?

Self-awareness includes our personality traits, values, emotions, habits,
thoughts and actions. It mostly happens during our self-reflection. The following
activities will help you contemplate and know yourself better.
Finish the sentences below, write your answers in your journal.

 I am .
 I am .
 I am .
 I am .
 I can be myself when .

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  I wish I could .
 I do my best when .
 I struggle when .
 The toughest decision I ever made is when .
 Something that makes me unique is .

Activity 1.3 I Am Me
In this activity, think and draw of a symbol that best represent you. This
could be an object, animal, plant or any other representation. Use your journal to
answer this activity.

List the qualities or characteristics of the symbol you drew that are similar
to you.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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 What I Have Learned

Question to Ponder:
How can understanding yourself lead to self-acceptance and creating better
relationships with other people?

What I Can Do

My Personal Mission Statement

A personal mission statement explains who you are and want to be, and
what you stand for. You can use it to guide you when making choices and
decisions, large and small, by asking yourself—“Does it help me become who I want
to be? ‟A personal mission statement also helps you explain who you are to others.
A personal mission statement should answer 3 questions:
1) What is my life about—what is my life’s purpose?
2) What do I stand for—what are my values?
3) What accomplishments am I working toward that will help me fulfil my
life’s purpose in a manner consistent with my values?
In your journal, with the guide above, create your own personal mission
statement. May you keep that personal mission statement with you and look at it
several times during the day—see how it makes you feel.

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 Assessment

Identify the words being described by the statements in each item. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. This skill helps you achieve your goals using new, original
and unconventional ideas.
2. According to this Greek philosopher, knowing yourself is the
starting point of all wisdom.
3. This are needed first to be identified and developed to attain
personal effectiveness.
4. A skill that allows you to focus on achieving your specific
goals without being distracted.
5. This is the self that you aspire to be.
6. This refers to the time when you make use of your personal
resources such as skills, time, energy and talents.
7. It is the awareness of yourself.
8. A skill that helps you keep moving forward despite of the
obstacles that may come along your way.
9. This is actually who we are.
10. This is being derived from social interactions that provide
insight into how others will react to you.
11. It will help you combat stress in order to increase your
efficiency in achieving your personal goals.
12. This is required for setting goals, defining an action plan to
achieve them and risk assessment.

13. He said that an unexamined life is not worth living and in

order to do that, one must know thyself.
14. They determine if your actions are being performed
according to the plan.
15. A way to help you track your growth, reflect and set goals.

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 Additional Activities

My Banner – The Treasure within Me

In the spaces indicated by numbers, write down the following. Use your
journal to answer this activity.

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
difficulties, challenges and problems that I was able to solve
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and overcome

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References

 Personal Development Reader First Edition

Department of Education - 2016

 Character Worksheets - Theworksheets.com

https://www.theworksheets.com/s/character+worksheets/2

 Personal Identity Wheel

Admin -
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/2017/08/16/personal-
identity-wheel/

 Me, Myself, I – self-concept and self-esteem

Beyond Blue - https://www.beyondblue.org.au/docs/default-source/secondary-school-
program/bw0023-sec-sch-prog-year-8-student-man-3.pdf?sfvrsn=6b80a6e9_3

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