Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SORSOGON
BULAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 12

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET 4

Name of the Student:

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Grade & Strand: _____________________________ Date:
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• OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
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.

• ACTIVITIES

• Let Us Review – In your own understanding, explain at least 50 words

about the passage below of Brian Tracy. Write your answer in a long
bond paper.
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to
help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking: “What’s in it for me?”
– Brian Tracy

• Let Us Study

Reading: THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD:

CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE
Physical Development
• Most girls have completed the physical changes related to
puberty by age 15.
• Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and
height and
are completing the development of sexual traits.

Emotional Development
• May stress over school and test scores.
• Is self-involved (may have high expectations and low self-
concept).
 • Seeks privacy and time alone.
• Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
• May complain that parents prevent him or her from doing things
independently.
• Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in
relationships.
• The experience of intimate partnerships

Social Development
• shifts in relationship with parents from dependency and
subordination to
one that reflects the adolescent’s increasing maturity and
responsibilities
in the family and the community,
• Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.
• Seeks friends that share the same beliefs, values, and interests.
• Friends become more important.
• Starts to have more intellectual interests.
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others.
• May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol,
tobacco, sex).

Mental Development
• Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms of the future.
• Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.
• Starts to develop moral ideals and to select role models.

Reading: ENCOURAGEMENT 101: The Courage to Be Imperfect

by Timothy D. Evans, Ph.D.
Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving your
relationships with others. It is the single most important skill
necessary for getting along with others – so important that the lack of it
could be considered the primary cause of conflict and misbehavior.
Encouragement develops a person’s psychological hardiness and social
interest. Encouragement is the lifeblood of a relationship. And yet, this
simple concept is often very hard to put into practice.
Encouragement is not a new idea. Its spiritual connotation dates
back to the Bible in Hebrews 3:11 which states “Encourage one another
daily.” Encouragement, as a psychological idea, was developed by
psychiatrist Alfred Adler in the early
20th century and continued to evolve through the work of Adler’s
follower Rudolph Dreikurs. However, even today, relatively few
educators, parents, psychologists, leaders or couples have utilized this
valuable concept. Most of the time, people mistakenly use a technique
like praise in an effort to “encourage” others.
Half the job of encouragement lies in avoiding discouraging words and
actions. When children or adults misbehave, it is usually because they
are discouraged. Instead of building them up, we tear them down;
instead of recognizing their efforts and improvements, we point out
mistakes; instead of allowing them to belong through shared decision-
making and meaningful contributions, we isolate and label them.
 Most of us are skilled discouragers. We have learned how to bribe,
reward and, when that fails, to punish, criticize, nag, threaten,
interrogate and emotionally withdraw. We do this as an attempt to
control those we love, bolstered by the mistaken belief that we are
responsible for the behavior of everyone around us, especially our
spouses and children. These attempts to control behavior create
atmospheres of tension and conflict in many houses.

Most commonly, we discourage in five general ways:

• We set standards that are too high for others to meet because we are
overly ambitious.
• We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or improved
behavior.
• We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to one
another).
• We automatically give a negative spin to the actions of others.
• We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that they are
unable to
do it as well.
Encouragement is not a technique nor is it a special language used
to gain compliance. Encouragement conveys the idea that all human
beings are worthwhile, simply because they exist. In one sentence, Mr.
Rogers does more for a child’s sense of adequacy than a hundred
instances of praise when he says, “I like you just the way you are.” Not
I like you when you do it well enough, fast enough and get it all correct.
Encouragement develops children’s psychological hardiness -- their
ability to function and recover when things aren’t going their way.
Encouragement enhances a feeling of belonging which leads to
greater social interest. Social interest is the tendency for people to
unite themselves with other human beings and to accomplish their
tasks in cooperation with others. The Junior League mission of
“developing the potential of women and improving communities
through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers” is
rooted in the idea of social interest.
The first step to becoming an encouraging person is to learn to
distinguish encouragement from discouragement. As a rule, ask
yourself: Whatever I say or do, will it bring me closer together or farther
apart from this person?
We all have the power to be more encouraging people. The choice,
as always, is yours.

• Let Us Practice

1. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.

Each of us is unique. What makes you happy may not make
someone else happy. Additionally, we change as we grow older. Yet,
evidence suggests that some things are more consistently
associated with happiness. For example, genuine happiness is
linked to finding contentment, avoiding envy, cultivating love for
others, and building mental and emotional resilience.
Being happy must always begin with oneself. For me,
 happiness is discovered within. We should not rely on eternal
things to make us joyful because they are not always there. To
achieve personal satisfaction, we sometimes need to set aside more
time for ourselves. We don't have to laugh just to be happy.
Happiness, in my opinion, is a feeling of fulfillment and
delight.Happiness for me is surviving a stressful day that I believed
I wouldn't be able to get through. When I'm playing guitar and
singing along, I'm at my happiest. When I'm watching old movies,
I'm at my happiest. When I draw or paint, I am at my happiest.
When I'm around my buddies, I'm at my happiest. Even the
smallest things can bring joy. We don't need to go out and get a
new phone to be happy. We don't need to spend a lot of money to
be happy. We don't have to wear designer clothes to be happy. Let
us liberate ourselves from the belief that more money equals more
happiness.We must cultivate a sense of well-being within
ourselves. The feeling of wholeness, contentment, and love that
can be found within is happiness. Being joyful allows me to
maintain a clear mind-set. Furthermore, happiness benefits me in
reducing my stress and worries, making me feel soothed and
peaceful.Found at Colossians 3:15, that is sound advice! Studies
suggest that reflecting on positive aspects of our life and showing
appreciation for kindnesses rendered us can foster a heightened
sense of well-being.

2. Explain your thoughts and feelings about it. Include specific

ways in which
you will develop yourself further. Write your answer in a long
bond paper.
You will be rated using the rubric below;
Scoring Rubric for Short and Extended Response
Score Score Indicator
4 The response provides all aspects of a complete interpretation and/or a
correct solution. The response thoroughly addresses the points relevant to
the concept or task. It provides strong evidence that information,
reasoning, and conclusions have a definite logical relationship. It is clearly
focused and organized, showing relevance to the concept, task, or solution
process.
3 The response provides the essential elements of an interpretation and/or a
solution. It addresses the points relevant to the concept or task. It provides
ample evidence that information, reasoning, and conclusions have a logical
relationship. It is focused and organized, showing relevance to the concept,
task, or solution process.
2 The response provides a partial interpretation and/or solution. It
somewhat addresses the points relevant to the concept or task. It provides
some evidence that information, reasoning, and conclusions have a
relationship. It is relevant to the concept and/or task, but there are gaps in
focus and organization.
1 The response provides an unclear, inaccurate interpretation and/or
 solution. It fails to address or omits significant aspects of the concept or
task. It provides unrelated or unclear evidence that information, reasoning,
and conclusions have a relationship. There is little evidence of focus or
organization relevant to the concept, task, and/or solution process.

Reading: BEING HAPPY

You may have defects, be anxious and sometimes live

irritated, but do not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in
the world. Only you can prevent it from going into decadence. There
are many that need you, admire you and love you. I would like to
remind you that being happy is not having a sky without storms, or
roads without accidents, or work without fatigue, or relationships
without disappointments.

Being happy is finding strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s

battles, security at the stage of fear, love in disagreements.

Being happy is not only to treasure the smile, but that you
also reflect on the sadness. It is not just commemorating the event, but
also learning lessons in failures. It is not just having joy with the
applause, but also having joy in anonymity.
Being happy is to recognize that it is worthwhile to live, despite all the
challenges, misunderstandings and times of crises.

Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory for those who
can travel towards it with your own being.

Being happy is to stop being a victim of problems but become

an actor in history itself. It is not only to cross the deserts outside of
ourselves, but still more, to be able to find an oasis in the recesses of
our soul. It is to thank God every morning for the miracle of life.

Being happy is not being afraid of one's feelings. It is to know

how to talk about ourselves. It is to bear with courage when hearing a
"no". It is to have the security to receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is
to kiss the children, pamper the parents, have poetic moments with
friends, even if they have hurt us.

Being happy means allowing the free, happy and simple child
inside each of us to live; having the maturity to say, "I was wrong";
having the audacity to say, "forgive me". It is to have sensitivity in
expressing, "I need you"; to have the ability of saying, "I love you." So
that your life becomes a garden full of opportunities for being happy...

In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In your

winter, may you become a friend of wisdom. And when you go wrong
along the way, you start all over again. Thus you will be more
 passionate about life. And you will find that happiness is not about
having a perfect life but about using tears to water tolerance, losses to
refine patience, failures to carve serenity, pain to lapidate pleasure,
obstacles to open the windows of intelligence.

Never give up ... Never give up on the people you love. Never
give up from being happy because life is an incredible show. And you
are a special human being!

• EVALUATION
Portfolio Output No. 8: Slogan on “Being Happy”
Create a slogan in a long bond paper on “How you can cope with
the stress
for a healthful living in your own personal ways.”
You will be rated using the rubric below;
Rubric for Slogan
Category 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Craftsmanship The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is
exceptionally attractive in acceptably distractive and
attractive in terms of attractive messy.
terms of neatness. Good though it
neatness. Well- constructed and may be a bit
constructed not very messy. messy.
and not messy.
Creativity The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is The slogan does
exceptionally creative and a creative and not reflect any
creative. A lot good amount of some thought degree of
of thought and thought was put was put into creativity.
effort was used into decorating decorating it.
to make the it.
banner.
Originality Exceptional Good use of new Average use No use of new
use of new ideas and of new ideas ideas and
ideas and originality to and originality to
originality to create slogan. originality to create slogan.
create slogan create slogan.

• REFERENCES
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http://carterandevans.com/portal/index.php/adlerian-theory/84-
encouragement-
101the-courage-to-be-imperfect
https://www.facebook.com/mcspa/posts/10153625162832490
 Prepared by:
Checked & Verified by:

CELINNE G. LAGUERAS MARK GLEN L. TEJADA

Teacher I SGH-PE & Health
Subject

Recommending Approval:

MARIVIC A. AŇONUEVO
ASP II, SHS

Approved:

SALVE E. FERRERAS
Principal III

Noted:

LEONISA M. ENOLVA
OIC-PSDS, Bulan II