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Career Explorations
Students use a variety of resources to discover their personal goals, interests, aptitudes and priorities. They apply these interests to course selection and career choices.
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Responsibility
Learners investigate the importance of accepting responsibility and demonstrating self awareness.
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Three Wishes
Second graders make three wishes in order to help them decide what is important to them and compare it to what is important to others.
Ed Change
Who I Am Poems
Students write short poems, starting each line with "I am," describing in their own words who they are and what is salient to their identity.
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Self-esteem and Self-concept
Ninth graders identify and define self-esteem and self-concept, their differences, and how to apply them to their daily lives.
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How Full is Your Basket?
Pupils examine how things they say and do affect the feelings of others. For this self evaluation lesson, students use baskets and eggs as props for the lesson. Pupils read the book 'How Full is Your Basket' and discuss the story....
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I am Special
In this personal awareness worksheet, 1st graders draw the their face onto the blank face of the little boy. Students then may color the clothes.
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Likes and Dislikes List
In this self-appraisal worksheet, students find out how they feel about themselves, learn about their strengths and weaknesses, think about ways to improve themselves by writing 10 things they like about themselves and 10 things they...
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What Sort of Person Are You?
In this ESL conversation starter, students grade statements about daily routine and personality from one to five (always to never) and then discuss them with a partner.
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Work Force Awareness
Students identify desirable personal qualities for a chosen workplace. They brainstorm 3 work environments of good and poor personal work qualities. Students interview their parents or employer. They comprehend learning style and how it...
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Self-Management Unit
Students explain how self-concept is built and preserved and how it relates to the perception of individual strengths and weaknesses. They explore self-concept, character & integrity, labeling, values, goals and decision making.
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Human Development- Love
Students investigate the concept of self-love. They determine the meaning and develop an understanding of their own status of self-concept. Class discussion is used to encourage deeper research.
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Taking Risks: Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Students discuss a video about drug and alcohol abuse and their connection to risk-taking. They answer questions on a risk factor sheet about the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. They discuss long and short term goals and how not...
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Who I Am - Likes
Second graders complete a "Who Am I" sheet to decide what kinds of things they like and then have a class discussion.
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Making Choices
Fifth graders identify their personal interests and behavioral choices. They explore how these choices affect school and family situations. Consequences of their choices are examined.
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Student name and attribute
Students create an acrostic poem using their name and drawings that describe them.
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Priorities
Eighth graders contemplate what they look for in a friend & how they might be a better friend by listing qualities that might be valuable in a friendship, recognizing qualities they possess, and prioritizing a list of qualities...
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Visualize Your Future
Students visualize themselves as a grown person in response to questions asked by the teacher. After visualizing the future students should take 5 - 10 minutes to write down the answers to the Questions About My Dream.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Learning How to Be More Aware
Internet article discusses the five main elements of emotional intelligence, including self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills, and offers practical and applicable ways to incorporate these qualities into...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kindness in the Classroom: Kindness Curriculum: Social & Emotional Learning Competencies
The Kindness Curriculum addresses the Social Emotional Learning Competencies from the Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards in the areas of Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Focus Attention, Social Awareness, and Relationship Skills....
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: 3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time....
Other
What Are Good Leadership Skills: Personal Leadership Plans
Develop your own leadership plan with this online guide and downloadable template.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: On Being Wrong
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? Wrongologist Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility. [17:52]
Lumen Learning
Lumen: The Romantic Period, 1820 1860: Essayists and Poets
This lesson focuses on the Romantic Period's essayists and poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, the Brahmin Poets, and more.