Lesson Plan in Personal Development

Grade 11
I. OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson, the student should be able to:
1. Conduct self-exploration and simple disclosure
2. Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his or her strengths and limitations and
deal with others better.
3. Share his or her unique characteristics, habits and experiences
4. Start and maintain his or her journal.

II. SUBJECT MATTER:

Topic: Knowing and understanding Oneself

Reference: Personal Development

Ricardo Rubio Santos
pp. 14 – 21
https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-self-concept-in-psychology- definition-
lesson-quiz.html
http://www.learning-mind.com/7-basic-personal-effectiveness-skills/

Materials: Visual Aids

Values Focus: Self-awareness and Cooperation

III. PROCEDURE:

A. Introduction
 Prayer
 Attendance

B. Review

What they learn in the previous lesson?

 Personal Development and Personality

 The Three Aspects of Human Development
 What are the factors that influenced the human development?

C. Motivation

The teacher will ask the student to choose their favorite color from the given options: Blue,
Red and Green. The interpretation of the each color is based on the natural instinct of the students,
because it is their choice.

D. Activity
The students will answer the activity individually. Each student should follow the
instructions carefully and answer it honestly by their own self-awareness as they know their own
self. This activity is a Self-conception judgement. The activity should be filed in a Journal. Each
student will be given choices to rate their own self by using the following scales: 0= very weak; 1=
weak; 2= somewhat weak or somewhat strong; 3= strong; 4= very strong.

E. Abstraction
Discussion about Self will take place.
Knowing oneself – is the first step in personal development.
According to Socrates “It is ridiculous for him to investigate other unimportant things
when he has not known his self yet.

Plato “The beginning of knowledge is self-knowledge”

A Hindu writings Upanishads confirmed, “Enquiry into the truth of the self is “self-knowledge”

Self – In philosophical terms, it is the being, which is the source of a person’s

consciousness.

– It is the agent responsible for an individual’s action. Is defined as the cognitive

and affective representation of one’s identity, it is then defined in terms of human
characteristics such as behavior and thought.

Self is identified in various contexts:

1. Psychology – consists of a person's conscious and unconscious aspects, their personality,
cognitions or thoughts and feelings. All these traits or aspects combine together into the
person's core identity.
2. Sociology - the self is a relatively stable set of perceptions of who we are in relation to
ourselves, others, and to social systems. The self is socially constructed in the sense that it is
shaped through interaction with other people.
3. Religion - self-improvement which its primary aims the improvement of the self through
believing in God’s love, realizing the values of life and learning to have self-control that
helps an individual to have good morality.

Personality and Self

Personality is the essence of who we are and is the embodiment of one’s physical,
psychological, cognitive, affective, and spiritual self. Therefore, when we speak of the “Self”, we
will describe it in personality terms.

Nature, Nurture and Personality

Personality is influenced by both:

“Nature” – which is by hereditary or genetic make-up.

And “Nurture” – by their environment.

Self-concept

Let the students Imagine themselves looking into a mirror. Then ask them, “What do
you see? Do see your ideal self or your actual self?

Self-concept – refers to your awareness of yourself.

Ideal self – is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess by character.
It is how we want to be.

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. It is built in self-knowledge. It is our self-image

Self-knowledge – is derived from social interactions that provide insight into how others react
to you.

Developing Personal Effectiveness

 Is a means in making use of all the personal resources, talent, skills, energy and time, to
enable us to achieve our life goals.

Here are some ideas that could help you increase your personal effectiveness:

1. Determination
2. Self-confidence
3. Persistence
4. Managing Stress
5. Problem solving skills
6. Creativity
7. Generating ideas

F. Application

Group Activity

The Symbol of myself: This is Me

1. The class will be group into 5. This activity will develop the self-awareness of each student
on their own self.
2. Each student will get 1 whole sheet of yellow paper, they will draw a symbol or symbols
that represents their own “Self.” At the back of the paper they will write the unique
characteristics(positive and negative) of the symbol that represents to them.
3. After they are through, They will share their symbols to their group mates and discuss why
did they choose this symbol. They will share their unique characteristic(positive or negative )
that they know on themselves
4. After the sharing each students will collaboratively give one another advices on their on
what they’ve found on their classmates. This activity will be compiled on their Journal.

Classroom Activity

Box of Memories: The Jewels inside Me

On the students journal: Draw a box of memories in your journal

Box of Memories: The Jewels inside 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
8 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

The teacher will draw a circle. The students will go around the circle. The teacher will call one studet
to start the activity to share their journal with the large group as they are comfortable doing so.
After the first students shared his or her box of memories he will call another classmate to share
again until everybody is done sharing.

Journal Reflection from the Box of Memories: The Jewels inside me

Write about your box of memories
1. What do you think is your weakness, skills and expertise?
2. What can be the best thing to improve your weakness?
3. How can you enhance you strength?
4. Where and how do you use it to your best advantage?

G. Assessment

15 PTS. QUIZ: On a ½ Crosswise of yellow paper ( This quiz will be compiled on the journal)

IDENTIFICATION: Identify the following statement

1. It refers to self-awareness
2. He stated that the beginning of self is self-knowledge
3. It is the first step in personal development
4. The self that you aspire to be and It is how we want to be.
5. The one that you actually see. It is our self-image.
6-8. Three context of self.
9-15 Give the seven ideas that could help you increase your personal effectiveness.

H. Assignment
Answer the following question in your journal:
1. What have you discovered in yourself?
2. What are your core strength?
3. What are the qualities you want to improve?