Learning About Yourself

Ms. Brewer

Futures I

Unit 1 Lessons One - Three

Who You Are

Key Learning:

Discovering things about yourself can lead to personal success and satisfaction.

Unit Essential Question:How can my principles, skills and interests help me be successful in life?

All About You

What are my interests and how do they affect career choices?

What are my abilities and how do they affect career choices?

How do my values and attitude affect my self-concept?

All About YouLearning Essential Questions

Attitude

Self-Concept

Values

Work Ethic

Resources

Self Inventories

Interests

Personality

Aptitudes

Skills

Abilities

Essential Vocabulary

First Assignment:Find a song (any genre; all words school appropriate) that describes you well.

The song could represent your attitude, resources, personality, self-concept, values, interests, or abilities.

What’s Your Theme Song?

Assignment Requirements:

The song title and artist

The lyrics only (Music NOT required)

A 100-200 word reflection/description of how

that song represents you.

Why is it your theme song?

Include the word count at the end of your

reflection!

DUE DATE________________

What’s Your Theme Song?

Understanding your strengths allows you to use them to your advantage.

Understanding your weaknesses gives you areas in which to improve.

Knowing what interests you leads you to engaging activities.

You can better use your resources.

Sometimes it’s hard to be honest with yourself, but…

Knowing what you want from life helps you set goals.

People with goals are more likely to be satisfied with their life.

Understanding yourself leads to a better self-concept.

Seeing situations from many angles helps you control the situations you encounter.

Sometimes it’s hard to be honest with yourself, but…

Take a few minutes to answer the questions on the next 5 slides…2 to 3 full sentences…

How much do you know about yourself already?

Why?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

If you could meet anyone, at any point in history, who would it be?

Why?

List at least three of each:

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

What are the things that are important to you?

Who are you? What are your priorities?What defines you?

Insert answers starting here…

How can it help you?

Why is it important to know things about yourself?

Insert NEW slide in your Powerpoint

Pick one of your vocabulary words and predict what you think the definition of the word might be…

Bellwork

Discovering things

about Yourself

Interests

Personality

Self-Concept

Abilities

Skills

Attitude

Values

Resources

LESSON VOCABULARY

SELF INVENTORIES are tests or surveys that help you learn about yourself.

SELF INVENTORIES

Personality

Favorite Shapes

Learning Styles

Choices

Interests

Holland Interest

Inventories

Aptitudes

ASVABSSAT

Your INTERESTS are the ideas, subjects, or activities you enjoy.

1. Pursuing your interests energizes and engages you.

2. People who are interested in their work are usually successful and happy.

3. Most interests can be turned into careers.

4. Careers typically focus on 1 of 3 interest categories-

People Data Objects

Interests

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Interests into a Career…

DATA

PEOPLEOBJECTS

Interests

Center of Attention-Public SpeakerNews BroadcasterRadio DJTheatre

Interests

Reading & Researching-Legal AssistantMedical Researcher ArcheologistAuthor

Interests

Your PERSONALITY is the group of traits that make you unique (think adjectives).

1. Positive personality traits- honest, caring, assertive.

2. Negative personality traits- unreliable, selfish, dishonest.

3. Everyone has positive and negative personality traits. They make you unique and make up some of your strengths and weaknesses.

4. Certain traits, like being critical, can be positive or negative depending on how it is used and who is evaluating the trait.

Personality

Think of someone you LIKE, or has a good personality. Name 6 traits that you’d use to describe them.

1. 4.

2. 5.

3. 6.

Think of someone you DON’T LIKE, or has a bad personality. Name 6 traits that you’d use to describe them.

1. 4.

2. 5.

3. 6.

Personality

Name 10 personality traits someone would mention when describing you… use positive (1-5) and negative words (6-10).

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

Bellwork: Personality: Use your Personality Test from Yesterday to help you!

Personality is important to your career... Understanding your personality leads you to

careers that will motivate you and you’ll enjoy.

People react in a positive way when they like your personality (making you a good coworker, or leader.)

How does your personality affect the people around you and their desire to work with you?

Career Thoughts

Your APTITUDES are natural talents you have or the potential to learn skills

quickly & easily.

1. Others may spot your aptitudes before you do.

2. Aptitude tests can help you identify aptitudes you haven’t discovered yet.

3. Examples- music, writing, sports, art, math

What do you think are your aptitudes?

Aptitudes

How You Grow

Aptitudes Skills Abilities

Aptitudes can grow into skills.

Skills can be developed and mastered.

Your set of skills can expand into abilities!

Your SKILLS are things you can do proficiently because you’ve improved through training and education.

1. Aptitudes come naturally, but skills must be nurtured and mastered.

2. Careers require different sets of skills.

Academic Skills

Communication Skills

Physical Skills

Technical Skills

Skills

Dream Career-

Academic Skills

Communication Skills

Physical Skills

Technical Skills

Career ThoughtsWhat is your dream career. What skills are needed? Name at least 2 in each category…

Your ABILITIES are the set of skills you have developed to a mastery level.

1. Abilities can be aptitudes you’ve developed and improved.

Aptitude- quick, coordinated movement. Ability- typing skills or playing a piano

well.

2. If you do not have an aptitude for a skill, you must work harder to develop the ability to perform that skill at a master level.

Abilities

Career ThoughtsWhat are your abilities? What skills do you feel you’ve mastered or have come close to mastering?

Your ATTITUDE is how you react to a situation.

1. Your attitude affects your happiness.

2. Your attitude shapes how others view you.

3. Employers try to hire people with a positive

attitude.

4. You CAN control your attitude. Sometimes you have to DECIDE to be positive.

Attitude

Your SELF-CONCEPT is recognition of both your strengths & weaknesses and feeling good about yourself by accepting who you are.

1. Self-concept can affect your personality and attitude in a positive or negative way.

2. People with a realistic self–concept see themselves as they are, not how they want to be or how others see them.

3. A high self-esteem -or- respect for oneself, usually comes with having a realistic and complete self-concept.

4. Self-concept can change as you have new experiences and are faced with challenging situations.

Self-Concept

1. Your self-concept should come from what’s inside of YOU, not what you’re told by friends, adults, society, or media.

2. You must be honest with yourself to have a realistic self-concept.

3. Acknowledging weaknesses does not make you weak. It helps you get stronger.

4. Your self-concept affects how others see you too.

5. People who brag a lot or bully often have a poor self-concept and are covering their insecurities.

Self-Concept

A positive self-concept is important to your career…

Self-confident people accept new challenges, are productive, and can become leaders.

How would a positive self-concept help you in a job interview?

Career Thoughts

Career Thoughts

In three full sentences, tell me what factors influence your self-concept?

Career Thoughts

How would you describe your self-esteem?

Your VALUES are the beliefs, ideas, and objects that are important to you as a

person.

1. Values are influenced by family, friends, religious beliefs, experiences, and community.

Honesty, Family, Health, Religion, Education, Relationships

2. Work Values relate to the work you do or respect.

Creativity, Status, Ethics, Variety, Teamwork, Time, Recognition

Values

FAMILY-

INDEPENDENCE-

FRIENDSHIPS-

MONEY-

TIME-

ETHICS-

EDUCATION-

Values

FAMILY- eats dinner with the family every night to promote family unity and spend time together.

EDUCATION- studies and saves money for college.

FRIENDSHIPS- acts as a good listener when your friend is having a hard time. Keeps confidences.

TIME- prepares a schedule to prioritize things they need to do.

MONEY- creates a budget to spend wisely and save some.

INDEPENDENCE- works to save money for a car or a house.

ETHICS- is honest with clients when you cannot do a job within a certain timeframe or budget.

Values

Which values do these familiar quotes describe?

1. Honesty is the best policy. 1. Truthfulness

2. Do unto others as you’d have others do unto you.

1. Fairness

3. Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today.

1. Time

4. It’s not what you do when people are watching, it’s what you do when they’re not.

1. Ethics

Values

What do you value in your personal life? Name 3…

What do you value in your school-work or in your future career? Name 3…

Your WORK ETHIC is a moral value to do a good job when performing a task.

People with a good, strong work ethic:

1. Are self motivated to accomplish their goals.

2. Are recognized as reliable and responsible.

3. Are willing to work to accomplish tasks.

4. Are usually successful and are given opportunities.

It’s worth It… Go the Extra Mile

Work Ethic

Using 4 full sentences, give an example of when you displayed a good work ethic. What did you accomplish?

Work Ethic

A RESOURCE is anything a person can use to help reach a goal.

1. A positive attitude and aptitudes are resources you have within you.

2. Time is a resources that everyone has, but it is limited.

3. A free education and access to teachers and counselors are resources all Americans have.

4. Unique/Limited resources include- personal connections, inside information, money, personal experiences, materials you have access to, opportunities like internships or scholarships.

Resources

What are the resources you have right now to help you explore careers? List at least 3…

Career Thoughts

Classmate InterviewsWhat is your highest Holland Type (Interest Code?

What Pathway do you think you will

pursue?

What interests you most about this

pathway?

What kind of career do you think you will choose?

As we conclude this unit, reflect deeper on what you have learned and answer these questions using 3 sentences each…What are your strengths?

What are your weakness?

Assignment:

Find a song (any genre; school appropriate) that describes you well.

The song could represent your attitude, resources, personality, self-concept, values, interests, or abilities.

Assignment Requirements:

The song title and artist.

The lyrics. No music required.

A 100-200 word reflection/description of how that song represents you. Why is it your theme song?

Include the word count at the end of your reflection.

What’s Your Theme Song?

Reflection Questions:

Answer each question in full sentences using at least 75 words total for each question. Please include the word count at the end of each question’s paragraph.

The questions are on the next 3 slides:

All About You

What are my interests and how do they affect career choices?

All About You

What are my abilities and how do they affect career choices?

All About You

How do my values and attitude affect my self-concept?

All About You