Name: ______________________________________________________________________

Year & Section: ________________________________ Date: __________________________

As adolescents enhance their self-understanding, they become more aware of their own
strengths, weaknesses, emotions, and feelings and how these may affect their learning
and behavior. Your journey toward self-understanding may begin with your answers to
the following:
a. My goals

Short-term Goals Long-term Goals

b. My strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses

c. Special abilities and skills that I have that can help me achieve my goals.

d. Barriers to achieving my academic goals and how to overcome them.

Barriers How to Overcome

e. Areas that I am happy/disappointed with in my school performance and ways to
improve in these areas.

Things that I am Unhappy/Disappointed Ways to Improve

With

f. The things I have achieved.

g. The things that make me happy

2. To discover your strengths and weaknesses, answer the Multiple Intelligence

Inventory. The tests may be downloaded at
http://www.kerstens.org/alicia/planning10/Multiple%20Intelligences%20Inventory.pdf.
Write a short reflection paper about the results of the survey.
3. Answer the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory. The test may be downloaded at
https://www2.viu.ca/studentsuccessservices/learningstrategist/documents/Metacognitive
AwarenessInventory.pdf. Write a short reflection paper about the results of the survey.