Who You AreLearning About Yourself

Discovering things about yourself can leadto personal success and satisfaction.

How can my principles, skills, and interests help me be successful in life?

Key Learning:

Unit Essential Question:

All About You

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

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

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

Lesson Essential Questions

Essential Vocabulary

Self Inventories Interests Personality Aptitudes Skills Abilities

Attitude Self-Concept Values Work Ethic Resources

What’s Your Theme Song?Assignment

Find a song, (school appropriate), that describes you well. The song could represent your attitude, resources,

personality, self-concept, values, interests, or abilities.

Delivery Print out the song lyrics, along with the title and artist. Write a 100-200 word reflection/description of how that

song represents you. Why is it your theme song? Include a word count at the end of your reflection. Place a copy of the song in the “hand-in” folder in your

teacher’s shared folder.

DUE DATE _____________

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

Understanding your strengths.

Understanding your weaknesses.

Knowing what interests you.

Use your resources.

Knowing what you want from.

Have goals. Understanding

yourself. Seeing situations

from many angles.

How much do you already know about yourself?

Take a few minutes to answer the questions on the next 5 slides…

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Why?

If you could meet anyone, at any point in history,

who would it be?

Why?

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Who are you? What defines you?

Why is it important to know things about myself?

Discovering Yourself

Self Inventories

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

Personality

Favorite Shapes

Learning Styles

Choices

Interests

Holland Interest Inventories

Aptitudes

ASVABSCOPS

Interests

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

1. Energizes and engages you.2. Interested in their work.3. Can be turned into careers.4. Careers typically focus on 1 of 3 interest

categories-

People Data Objects

InterestsGiving Parties-Event Planner

Wedding CoordinatorPublic RelationsPhotographer

Helping Others-Social Worker

Working with the ElderlyPhysical Therapy

Counselor

Playing with Children-Pediatrician

CoachTeacher

Dance Instructor

Center of Attention-Public Speaker

News BroadcasterRadio DJTheatre

People

InterestsOrganizing-

Professional AssistantAuditor

Distribution ManagerCensus Manager

Calculating-Statistician

Rocket ScientistAccountant

Budget Analyst

Reading & Researching-Legal Assistant

Medical Researcher Archeologist

Author

Doing Puzzles-Cryptologist

ArchitectCity PlannerDetective

Data

Interests

Fixing Things-MechanicParamedicPlummerBarber

Seeing How Things Work-Systems Analyst

Network AdministratorChemistRobotics

Building-Carpenter Assembler Landscaper

Construction Worker

Creating-Painter

Web DesignerSeamstress

Chef

Objects

Personality

Your _______________ is the group of traits that make you unique (think

adjectives).

1. Positive personality traits.2. Negative personality traits.3. Everyone has positive and negative personality

traits. 4. Certain traits can be positive or negative.

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.

Look on page 148 for more ideas.

Personality

Name 10 personality traits someone would mention when describing you… use positive and negative words.

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

Career Thoughts

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?

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!

Aptitudes

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

easily.

Examples- Music, fine motor skills, writing, sports, math.

1. Others may spot your aptitudes before you do.2. Aptitude tests can help you find aptitudes you haven’t

discovered yet.

What do you think are your aptitudes?

Skills

Your ____________ are things you can do proficiently because you’ve improved

through training and education.

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

2. Careers require different sets of skills.

Academic Skills

Communication Skills

Physical Skills

Technical Skills

Career ThoughtsName your dream career. What skills are needed?

Career-

Academic Skills

Communication Skills

Physical Skills

Technical Skills

Abilities

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

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

________________ = quick, coordinated movement.

________________ = typing skills or Playing a piano well.

2. What if you do not have an aptitude for a skill?

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

Attitude

Your ______________ is how you react to a

situation.

1. Affects your happiness.

2. Shapes how others view you.

3. Employers try to hire people with a positive attitude.

4. You CAN control your attitude.

Self-Concept

Your ___________________ is recognition of both your strengths & weaknesses

and feeling good about yourself by accepting who you are.

1. 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. 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.

2. You must be honest. 3. Acknowledge your weaknesses.4. Affects how others see you too.5. People who have a poor self-concept?

Career Thoughts

A positive self-concept is important to your career…

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

How would a negative self-concept hurt you in a job interview?

Career Thoughts

What factors influence your self-concept?

Career Thoughts

How would you describe your self-esteem?

Identify three traits you need to change, either positive or negative

Values

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 An example of someone who 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.

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

3. Don’t burn your bridges.

4. Don’t burn the candle at both ends.

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

What do you value in your personal life?

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

Work Ethic

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

Give an example of when you displayed a good work ethic. What did you accomplish?

Resources

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.

Career Thoughts

What are the resources you have right now to help you explore careers?

Give more thorough answers this time…What are your strengths?

What are your weakness?

DUE DATE _____________

Final Reflection Questions

1. Answer the following questions, in detail, using what you have learned about yourself and the factual information gathered during this lesson.

2. Please re-write each question, before you answer.3. The minimum number of words for each question is 100 words.4. Please include the word count at the end of each answer. Do not include the

question in the word count.

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

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

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