PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
November 10, 2016

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
This course makes senior high school
students be aware of the developmental
stage that they are in, for them to better
understand themselves and the significant
people around them as they make
important career decisions as adolescents.

Course Outline
First Quarter
Unit 1. Self-Development

Unit 2. Aspects of Personal

Development

1. Introduction to Personal Development

5. The Challenges of Middle and Late

Adolescence

2. Knowing Oneself

6. Coping with Stress in Middle and Late

Adolescence

3. Developing the Whole Person

7. The Powers of the Mind: The Whole

Brain Theory

4. Developmental Changes in Middle and

Late Adolescence

8. Mental Health and Well-being in Middle

and Late Adolescence

Course Outline
Second Quarter
Unit 3. Building and Maintaining
Relationships

Unit 2. Aspects of Personal

Development

9. Emotional Intelligence

13. Family Structures and Legacies

10. Personal Relationships

14. Persons and Careers

11. Social Relationships in Middle and

Late Adolescence

15. Career Pathways

11. Understanding Conflict

16. Insights into Ones Personal

Development

Grading System
TASKS

PERCENTAGE

Written Works (Quizzes, Assignments,

Research)

25%

Performance Output

50%

Quarterly Exam

25%

Total

100%

Subject Requirement
3 x 5 index card
Long Brown Envelope
All performance task requirements will be submitted
using short bond paper
All requirements will be hand written (computer
printed will not be accepted)
At the end of the semester all activities will be
compiled and will be bound as your final course
output.

Subject Requirement
3 x 5 index card
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Section B
LAGRADILLA, DEXIE SALUBRE
MIDTERM

FINALS

Classroom Policy
DOS
Honesty
Courtesy
Cleanliness
Punctuality
Orderliness

Classroom Policy
DOS
Honesty
Courtesy
Cleanliness
Punctuality
Orderliness

DONTS
Sleeping
Disrespect
Absenteeism
Cheating

INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1

Objective
Understand and explain in his or her own words what
personal development is;
Understand and explain the psychological basis of
personal development;
Relate the concept of personal development in his or
her own experiences as an adolescent; and
Express his or her spiritual and religious beliefs and
how these influence his or her personal development.

Activity 1

Activity 1

From the picture what can you see that is

unique or special from the child?
What talents do you think this child could
possess?
What do you think this child wanted to be
when they got older?

Activity 1

Who do you think this

person ended up to be?
Is it because of fate or
genetics?

What do you
understand about
personal
development?

Human Development and Personal Development

Physical Development
Cognitive Development
Psychosocial Development

PHYSICAL DEVELOPEMENT
Covers the growth of the body and the brain
Motor and sensory skills
Physical health

PHYSICAL DEVELOPEMENT
Covers the growth of the body and the brain
Motor and sensory skills
Physical health
The process that starts in human infancy and
continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross
and fine motor skills as well as puberty.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPEMENT
Covers the growth of the body and the brain
Motor and sensory skills
Physical health
The process that starts in human infancy and
continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross
and fine motor skills as well as puberty.
Physical developmentinvolvesdeveloping control
over the body, particularly muscles
andphysicalcoordination.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPEMENT
Covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to speak, to
understand, to reason and to create.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPEMENT
Covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to speak, to
understand, to reason and to create.
Cognitive developmentis the emergence of the
ability to think and understand.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPEMENT
Cognitive developmentis a field of study in
neuroscience and psychology focusing on a
child'sdevelopmentin terms of:
information processing,
conceptual resources,
perceptual skill,
language learning, and
other aspects of
braindevelopmentandcognitivepsychology compared
to an adult's point of view.

PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPEMENT

Our social interaction with other people, our

emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality,
beliefs and values.

Factors that Influence Human Development

Heredity
The inborn traits passed on by the
generations of offspring from both sides of
the biological parents families

Factors that Influence Human Development

Environment
The world outside of ourselves and the
experiences that result from our contact and
interaction with this external world

Factors that Influence Human Development

Maturation
The natural progression of the brain and the body
that affects the cognitive, psychological, and social
dimension of a person.
The physical maturation over a persons
development is most pronounced during his
childhood and adolescent stages.

Human vs Personal Development

HUMAN
Covers the whole
lifespan of the human
existence in relation to
the three domains.

PERSONAL
Ones own development
and growth within the
context of the three
aspects of human
development.

In a Short Bond Paper

Who I think I will become .

Who I am now.
Who I want to be.

Personality or Personal Development?

Personality or Personal Development?

Personality developmentis thedevelopmentof the
organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a
person distinctive.
Personality developmentoccurs by the ongoing interaction
of temperament , character, and environment.

Personality or Personal Development?

Personal developmentisalifelongprocess.It'sawayfor
peopletoassesstheirskillsandqualities,considertheiraimsin
lifeandsetgoalsinordertorealizeandmaximizetheir
potential.

Personality or Personal Development?

PERSONAL
Belonging or relating to a particular
person
Made or designed to be used by one
person
Someone whose job involves
working for or helping a particular
person
Relating to, or affecting a particular
person

PERSONALITY

Set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving

Attractive qualities that make a person interesting or

pleasant to be with

Distinction or excellence of personal and social traits

A person of importance, prominence, renown or notoriety

Personal development may be defined as

the process in which person reflect upon
themselves, understand who they are,
accept what they discover about themselves,
and learn (or unlearn) new sets of values,
attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills to
reach their fullest potential as human beings.

Personal development is the

process of striving to be the best
that you can be in order to reach
and realize your importance.

Zorka Hereford
9 Essential Life Skills A guide for
personal development and selfrealization

Origins of Personal Development

First Homo sapiens: Drawing of cavemen attempts to narrate their human
experiences such as hunting.
Republic: Attempts to link individual development with social responsibility
Eastern: The desire to become the superior man, not just to his peers and
followers but to himself especially.
Religion: Rituals in self-discipline, meditation, prayer, physical exercise and
creative acts of expression (singing and dancing)

Psychology and Personal Development

Psychology as the foundation of
personal development.
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Martin Seligman
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Psychology and Personal Development

Abraham Maslow
Theorized the five stages of human
development based on hierarchy of
needs, peeking on what he deemed
as self-actualization

Psychology and Personal Development

Carl Rogers
Practice Psychotherapy
The individual has within himself,
the capacity and tendency, latent
if not evident, to move forward
toward maturity.

Psychology and Personal Development

Martin Seligman & Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
Positive psychology
Stresses that human nature has
its good and positive strengths,
as well as it inadequacies and
weaknesses.

A happily lit bulb

shines out in a
gloomy surrounding
representing positive
psychology.

Personal Development in Adolescence

Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and early adulthood
Early Adolescence between 10 and 13 years of age
Middle Adolescence between 14 and 16 years of age
Late Adolescence between 17 and 20 years of age

Group Activity:
1. How is personal development linked to psychology?
2. How does the age and stage of development of a
person influence his or her personal development?
3. Relate your spiritual and/or religious belief to
personal development? How does this manifest in
terms of your day-to-day behavior at home? In
school?
4. What are your concerns as an adolescents?
5. What is your definition of happiness? How is this
related to your personal development?

Portfolio
1. In Maslows hierarchy of needs, where do you find yourself?
What needs are being met? What needs are not yet being
met? What do you have to do to fulfill your needs so that you
can move closer towards self-actualization?
2. Create your own popular slogans or phrases that are
attributable to positive psychology such as Think Positive

Thats all
for today!