PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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PREPARED BY:

ROFELIA T. ANTIOQUIA
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 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

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Personal Development
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 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
To the Student of Personal Development:

Welcome to this course, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, or PERDEV for short. This is a very interesting
course, and can become the most personally rewarding for you, because the subject matter for this
course is YOU! As a new senior high school student, you have now entered a new educational level, as
well as a new psychological and social level, called the middle and late adolescence. You may feel that
you are no longer the rapidly growing and awkward teenager, but you also feel you are not quite ready
to call yourself a mature adult either. This course shall make you take a deeper look at yourself and
analyze your developmental changes, your skills and traits which can help you meet the various tasks
that you must undertake at this point in your life. It shall provide you with some techniques to meet
stress and other mental health issues with one’s strengths and coping powers. The course shall also
give you the chance to analyze your relationships with your family, friends and significant others.
Finally, the PERDEV course shall help you take stock of where you are in your career development and
how to get to where you want to be.

COURSE CONTENT:

There are 4 units in PERDEV, as follows:

Unit 1 – Self-Development
Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal Development
Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining Relationships
Unit 4 – Career Development
There will be several modules under each unit, to be taken up in several class sessions, each of which
addresses a key concern in personal development.

COURSE METHOD:

PERDEV uses the experiential learning approach, wherein you as a student will participate in TY
activities in class to explore specific themes in your development. You will interact with your PE
classmates, do projects with them, discuss various topics, and share your own thoughts, feelings
and experiences. You will also make personal reflections and write them down. In this manner of PE
self-refection and sharing, you shall help reveal and articulate relevant concepts, theories, and RS
tools in different areas of your life. ON
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YOUR TEACHER: Your teacher is the guide and facilitator of this course. He/she shall lead the NA
activities by giving instructions and supervising the procedures. However, since the subject matter ME
is yourself, the success of the modules depends on the participation and cooperation of you and
your classmates
MODULE 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and

Late Adolescence

MODULE 2: Developing the Whole Person

MODULE 3: Developmental Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

MODULE 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

MODULE 5: Coping with Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence

MODULE 6: The Powers of the Mind

MODULE 7: Mental Health and Well-Being in Middle and Late

Adolescence

MODULE 8: Emotional Intelligence

MODULE 9: Personal Relationships

MODULE 10: Social Relationships in Middle and Late Adolescence

MODULE 11: Family Structures and Legacies

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MODULE 12: Persons and Careers PE
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MODULE 13: Career Pathways RS
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 Unit 1: Self-Development
MODULE 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and Late Adolescence

Objectives:

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

1. explain that knowing yourself can make you accept your strengths and limitations and dealing with
others better;
2. share your unique characteristics, habits and experiences; and,
3. start and maintain a journal.

Activity 1: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY

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 or 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 am easy to 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 with one instruction.
___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. TY
___15. I have integrity and good reputation. PE
___16. My friends and classmates can look up to me as a model worth emulating. PE
___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. RS
___19. I can express my ideas in writing without difficulty. ON
___20. I am a good listener. AL
___21. I am emotionally stable and not easily rattled when faced with trouble.
___22. I am logical and rational in my outlook and decisions. NA
___23. I feel and act with confidence. ME
___24. I am a mature person.

Scoring: Copy this table in your journal. Write your score opposite each number and get the subtotal.
 Physical appeal Human Relations Intelligence
1 __________ 5 __________ 9 __________
2 __________ 6 __________ 10 __________
3 __________ 7 __________ 11 __________
4 __________ 8 __________ 12 __________
Subtotal: Subtotal: Subtotal:
Character Communications Maturity
13 __________ 17 __________ 21 __________
14 __________ 18 __________ 22 __________
15 __________ 19 __________ 23 __________
16 __________ 20 __________ 24 __________
Subtotal: Subtotal: Subtotal

Source: 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

Discussion Topic 1: SELF-CONCEPT

Self-concept refers to your awareness of yourself. It is the construct that negotiates these two selves. In
other words, it connotes first the identification of the ideal self as separate from others, and second, it
encompasses all the behaviors evaluated in the actual self that you engage in to reach the ideal self.

Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do you see? Do you see your ideal self or your actual
self?

Your 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. It 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. It 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.

Your actual self, however, 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. It is built on self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge is derived from social interactions that provide insight into how others react to you.
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The actual self is who we actually are. It is how we think, how we feel, look, and act. It can be PE
seen by others, but because we have no way of truly knowing how others view us, the actual self
is our self-image. PE
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The actual self and the ideal self are two broad categories of self-concept. ON
How do you perceive yourself? AL
Let’s get back and look at the results of your self-concept inventory and answer the following NA
questions. ME
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?
 3. How realistic is your self- image?

Source: http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-self-concept-in-psychology-definitionlesson-quiz.html
http://study.com/academy/lesson/ideal-self-vs-real-self-definition-lesson-quiz.html

Topic 2: PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Activity 2: Talent/Variety Show presentation

You will have a presentation. Share your talent and ceate your own TikTok videos.

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.

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 TY
people. Stress arises from the uncertainty in an unknown situation when a lack of information PE
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 RS
increases efficiency by adopting new ways of achieving goals when obtaining a new experience. ON
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 AL
greatly increased when using creative tools. NA
7. Generating ideas. It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a ME
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.
Source: http://www.chrysalisdevelopment.com/page6/page4/page4.html http://www.learning-mind.com/7-basic-
personal-effectiveness-skills/

Activity 3: 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 TY
5 what in myself am I proudest of PE
6 my happiest moment PE
7 positive words that my friends use to describe me
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8 a personal goal that I have already achieved
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9 three blessings for which I am most thankful to God
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10 three of my positive qualities
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11 difficulties, challenges and problems that I was able to solve and overcome
Topic 3: 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.

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.
Handicapped people like Jose Feliciano and 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.

Reflection from My Banner

Write about your banner.

1. What do you consider as your weaknesses, abilities and talents?

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2. What are the remedies you will take to improve or compensate for your weakness?
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3. How can you further enrich your assets and strength?

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4. Where and how do you use it to your best advantage? TY

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Source: 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.