PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Knowing and Understanding Oneself
During Middle and Late Adolescence
Lesson 1:
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
OBJECTIVES/EXPECTATIONS
1. You will be able to identify and understand your
talents, strengths, and weaknesses.
2. Help you to undergo self-assessment.
3. Describe the importance of discovering your skills
and your limitations.
4. Explain the importance of accepting and
acknowledging your limitations to be able to
interact with other people better.
OUTLINE OF THE LESSON
1. What is Self-concept?
2. What are the components of Self-concept?
a) Self-image
b) Self-esteem
c) Ideal Self
What comes into your
mind when you hear about
SELF-CONCEPT?
Self-concept answers
the questions:
• Who am I?
• Do I really know myself?
• How can I understand
myself?
SELF-CONCEPT
is our personal knowledge of
who we are, encompassing
all our thoughts and feelings
about ourselves physically,
personally, and socially.
3 COMPONENTS
OF SELF-CONCEPT
1. Self-image
2. Self-esteem
3. Ideal self
Carl Rogers
SELF-IMAGE
is the way we see ourselves.
It is built on self-knowledge.
It is how we think, how we
feel, look, and act.
SELF-ESTEEM
is the value we place upon
ourselves. Individual levels
of self-esteem are dependent
on the way we evaluate
ourselves.
IDEAL SELF
is the self we would
like to be.
PICTURE ANALYSIS
Write your thoughts
or perspectives
about the picture.
(½ sheet of paper,
crosswise)
Knowing and Understanding Oneself
During Middle and Late Adolescence
Lesson 1
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
GROUP ACTIVITY
• The class will be divided into four (4) groups.
• Share within your group your thoughts/perspectives
regarding the picture (10 min).
• Choose a facilitator and documenter during group
discussion.
• Choose a reporter to present the results of your
discussion to the class (3 min each group).
PICTURE ANALYSIS
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY
OF NEEDS
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs
is one of the best-known theories of
motivation.
This theory states that our actions are
motivated by certain physiological and
psychological needs that progress
from basic to complex.
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
• In psychology, it is a concept regarding
the process by which an individual
reaches his or her full potential.
• The “perfect congruence”
DEVELOPMENT
OF SELF-CONCEPT
• Begins to develop in early
childhood.
• This process continues
throughout the lifespan.
• It is between early childhood
and adolescence that self-
concept experiences the
most growth.
Knowing and Understanding Oneself
During Middle and Late Adolescence
Lesson 1
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
What changes did
you notice in yourself
when you were in
Junior High School?
(physical, emotional, social, etc.)
ADOLESCENCE
It Is the period in life
• When an individual is no longer a child, but not yet an adult.
• In which an individual goes through enormous physical,
mental and emotional changes.
• Wherein experience changes in social expectations and
perceptions.
• During this period, physical growth and development are
accompanied by sexual maturation.
The physical and psychological
changes that take place in
adolescence often start earlier,
during the preteen or "tween"
years: ages 9 and 12.
One of the significant changes
that occur in adolescent’s life
are the physical aspects which
is describe as puberty stage.
PUBERTY
• Puberty is a time of rapid physical growth
• It is when the body of boys and girls grow
bigger and taller, genitals mature, and often
hair starts growing in new places on the body.
Starts between ages 9 to18.
• New chemicals produced by the body called
hormones are developing in the body,
creating changes in the body and turning
young people into adults.
ADOLESCENCE,
PUBERTY, AND
SELF-CONCEPT
Being comfortable with one’s own
body, and having a positive
outlook towards these changes
contributes to the development of
your self-image, self-esteem, and
ideal self.
REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY
OF MEN AND WOMEN
OVER THE LIFE CYCLE
Male Fertility:
• Beginning with his first ejaculation, a
man is fertile every day and has the
ability to father a child for the rest of his
life.
• The man’s fertility is signaled by his first
ejaculation while being asleep, known
as wet dreams or nocturnal emissions.
REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY
OF MEN AND WOMEN
OVER THE LIFE CYCLE
Female Fertility:
• A woman is fertile when she has the
ability to become pregnant.
• A woman is fertile only certain days of
each menstrual cycle - these are the
days when she can become pregnant.
• A woman is fertile for a few days of
each cycle from her first menstruation
until menopause.
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
Get ½ sheet of paper (crosswise). Answer the following
questions in the SWOT Table.
Knowing and Understanding Oneself
During Middle and Late Adolescence
Lesson 1
KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF
QUIZ
1. Coverage: Introduction to Personal Development and
Knowing Oneself
2. Get 1 whole sheet of paper.
3. Write ten (10) concepts or keywords they remember from
the lesson and explain briefly (20 min).
4. Two (2) from your written concepts or keywords will be
randomly selected.
5. You will be asked regarding the selected concepts or
keywords to verify your answer.
JOURNAL WRITING
Write on your journal
the message which
you can derive from
the picture. (50 words)
Submission: January
13 (Monday)
THANK YOU and
GOD BLESS YOU!
