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MODULE
Self-Development

INTRODUCTION

DO you know yourself?

Can you still remember childhood memories? Can you still remember what is your goal profession back then? Or
maybe have you ever experienced being lost today looking for own yourself? Then this module is definitely for
you!
Personal development is a course in senior high school that aims to help you in understanding yourself
through psychological theories and concepts and will try to explain behaviors in order to better understand others
and most especially yourself. Further, this course will be beneficial in choosing your own career choices.

The following modules in personal development will bring you a more philosophical, psychological, and
scientific way of understanding yourself and everything that surrounds you. Module 1 will introduce you to the
origin of psychology and will open you to understanding yourself and soon will deepen throughout the whole term.

LESSON MAP

To guide you in this module below is a simple map of the lessons covered in this module:

Knowing One’ Self

Origin and Developments in

SELF
Personal Development

School of Thoughts in
DIMENSIONS OF SELF
Psychology

COMPONENTS OF
ATTITUDE
 LESSON 1
KNOWING ONE’S SELF: AN OVERVIEW ON HOW YOU RECOGNIZE SELF

LESSON COVERAGE
In this lesson you will learn the following:
Learning target
Lesson No. and Title Essential Question
(Acquisition Make-Meaning Transfer)
Lesson 1 – Knowing ● Why is it important to know ● I can identify the background and
One’s Self yourself? developments in the area of personal
● How well do you know yourself? development. (A)
o Identify your characteristics, ● I can classify one’s attributes to
habits, and experiences strengths and limitations (A)
o Recognize your thoughts, ● I can reflect on the possible
feelings, and behavior development on his/her strengths and
o Classifying your strengths and improve limitations (M)
weaknesses
● What do you think is the possible
improvement you can make for
yourself?
Resources/ • Personal Development- DepEd Module
References • http://www.deped.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SHSCore_Personal-
Development-CG.pdf
• De Guzman, J. and Nicolas, ML.S. (2016). Personal Development.
Malabon, City, Philippines: Mutya Publishing, INC.
• natural news.com (Quote from Aristotle)
• Perez (2016). Personal Development
• LIse LS_Disney.2016, April. Mulan - Reflection (Lyrics) 1080pHD.
Retrieved from:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDyjuaALbQ
• Littauer (1992), Personality Plus
Core Values Accountability, Moral Integrity, Self-Discipline, Strong Faith in God, Artistry
Innovativeness
21st Century Skills Critical thinking, Collaboration, and Communication.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE LESSON

A. EXPLORE

PERSONAL SWOT: Below is an activity that aims to recognize your own “Strengths”, Weaknesses”,
“Opportunities”, and “Threats” (Caparas, 2018). Classify your attributes according to the SWOT table.

Strengths are a person’s positive attributes Weaknesses are a person’s negative

attributes

Opportunities refer to attributes that promote Threats can dampen one’s capability to
growth and development achieve desired goals.
 B. FIRM-UP

When you hear the PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, what comes to your mind?

By just reflecting on this question, you are already using the concept of PERSONAL
by giving your own PERSONAL opinion on the matter. When do we say that something is
personal? If this refers to a possession of a particular and exclusive only in a person,
individual, or a body.
You might also encounter terms such as PERSONALITY.

PERSONALITY is a SENSE OF SELF in an organized

and consistent pattern of perception of the “I” or
“Me” that lies on the heart of an individual’s
experience. This means that self plays a vital role in
making our personality. ~ Carl Rogers

WHAT IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT?

Process where one can reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept they
discover about themselves, and learn (or unlearn) new sets of values, attitudes, behavior,
and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as a human. (Santos, 2016)

Personality cannot be defined through a single definition. This term originated from the
greek word PERSONAE which pertain to mask worn in ancient greek play.

WHAT IS SELF?
This refers to a person’s experience as single, unitary, autonomous being that is separate
from others, experienced with continuity through time and place. The experience of the self includes
consciousness of one’s physicality as well as one’s inner character and emotional life.
Below are Carl Rogers’ Dimensions of the SELF:

Physical you cannot execute your behavior if you don’t

have the power to your body, sometime behavior are seen
as a product of our senses and our attitude in a certain
thing. In the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental

Psychological contains the concepts regarding stress, cognition,

behavior, attitude, emotion, personality.

Personality is a product of influence of your mind.

 Spiritual allows us to view ourselves as spiritual beings that holds
relevance to a perceived existence of GOD, of a greater good, or a Superior
Being relating to the humble individual.

Everyone can be Great but not Everyone can be Good

"The individual's belief about himself or herself,

including the person's attributes and who and what
the self is" Baumeister (1999)
How about you? What is your Self - Concept about yourself?

Aspects of Self-Concept
Lewis (1990) suggests that the development of a concept of self has two aspects:

EXISTENTIAL SELF
CATEGORICAL SELF
most basic part of the self-
Becoming aware that he ASPECTS scheme or self-concept;
or she is also an object in
the world that can be
OF SELF- the sense of being
separate and distinct from
categorized. CONCEPT others and the awareness
of the constancy of the self'
(Bee, 1992)

After discussing the concept of Attitude is a way of

Personality, Let’s know how we are
thinking or feeling about
going to execute our Personality!
someone or something that
This is what we call “ATTITUDE
”
typically reflects in a person’s
behavior.
MAMA: NASAAN
YUNG
Moral Integrity
TUPPERWARE KO

OMG! Saan ko inilagay?

Explicit Attitude - can be Naku! Hahanapin ko
perceived consciously and na! Itatanggi ko na lang
expressed accordingly.
“Naghahanap at halatang
natataranta na” Implicit Attitude - which
pertains to thoughts or feelings
that conscious awareness does
Naku Mama Sorry po not cover. “Iisiping mabuti kung
naiwanan ko sa school, saan nailagay bago umamin”
hahanapin ko na po
COMPONENTS OF ATTITUDE:

Affec Feeling ko kailangan ko ng pagkakakitaan ngayong quarantine

.
“How
t we Feel”

Bakit hindi kaya ako mag

- online selling? Cognitio
“How
n we think”

Behavio
Mag-sesearch
- na ako sa computer ng pwedeng pagkakitaan
“How
r we act”

C. DEEPEN AND TRANSFER

Factors that may affect Attitude:

Operant Conditioning Modelling is a mimic

of BF Skinner in his Rat- behavior that happens
Learning or your
Interaction with your in -a-box Experiment when an individual
knowledge in a certain
environment might shape that claims that sees an act where he
subject affects how
your personality consequences can was influence to act
you feel, influence how
you think, and execute affect the behavior and according to the act
your reaction. cognition of a
behavior.

Activity 1: Go back with the activity we made earlier in the SWOT table.
List down at least three (3) of the strengths and three (3) of the weaknesses you included in the SWOT table and
reflect on this:
a. What could be the possible steps for you to maintain those strengths? Create a flow chart to show
these steps using the concepts discuss in this module.

B. What could be the possible steps for you to improve those weaknesses? Choose one of the factors that might
affect your attitude on that weakness and present it using a flow chart.
Activity 2: Situation Analysis:
Can you consider that your hardships will be your strengths and weakness as well?

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Did the content and flow of the discussion

achieve the intended learning targets? Submit
your answer to the Google Form sent to your Remarks/
Self-Assessment of Learning
assessments Comments/
Targets
Achieved but Recommendations
Achieved NOT Fully Not Achieved
understand
● I can identify the
background and
developments in the area of
personal development. (A)
● I can classify one’s
attributes to strengths and
limitations (A)
● I can reflect on the possible
development on his/her
strengths and improve
limitations (M)

ASSESSMENT

Read the whole content of the module pertaining to Self and Attitudes.

REMINDER

Make sure that you browse the module before attending the class next meeting. Smile!