Unit 1: strategies to develop self-awareness, self-esteem and self-development
What are self-awareness, self-esteem and self-development?
Self-awareness
Know yourself.
Interests, skills, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, goals, wishes and hopes,
values and beliefs
For example : enjoy - playing softball
value - honesty and respect
strengths - doing well in languages and mathematics
Weaknesses - waste time and arrive late for school
Likes - being with friends dislike selfish people
Goals - achieving 80s in all subjects
Interested - watching movies and reading books
Self-esteem
Like yourself
Believe in yourself, respect yourself, value yourself, have confidence
For example : feels confident
Work on improving weaknesses
Works on improving strengths
Likes, accept and believes in himself
Self-development
Improve yourself
Strengthen weaknesses build on your skills and strengths
For example : working on time management
Does not waste time
Keeps a diary and plans each day
If something needs to be done so he does it immediately
Factors that influence self-awareness and self-esteem
These factors include:
What other people say about you
What happens in your life
How well you cope with the difficult things in your life
, Your response or reaction to your success and failures
How popular you are, how much your friends like you
how the important people in your life treat you (either positive or negative)
The media such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, cellphone messages, internet and other
social media. Pictures ofperfect faces, bodies, you compare yourself to these images. When you can’t
look like the person you start to feel bad about yourself
Strategies to build confidence in yourself and in others
Know what can influence your self-esteem
Develop good communication, skills, finishing tasks successfully, taking part in community activities
making good decisions and affirming others.
Be assertive : say what you want to say clearly
Be polite and respectful
Know what you want
State your viewpoint
Please and thank you
Speak in public : the more you practise speaking in front of others, the easier it gets
Prepare your talk well, during the talk
Complete your tasks or projects successfully: manage your time. Make your deadlines, finish when you
start
Preserve don’t give up
Participate in community organizations: volunteer
Take part in events in your community
Play sport
Register to vote
Make good decisions: take responsibility for yourself. don’t blame others for your decisions
Affirm others: support, encourage and give praise
Help others become more confident
Let them see your respect
Appreciate others. Tell them you value them and that they are important to you and thank them.
Action plan to build self-esteem
Accept criticism if it is true and helpful
What will you do and why, when and how
, Acknowledge and respect uniqueness and differences
Uniqueness means that every person is different in some ways and is special
people have different looks, cultures, beliefs, skills, interests, ideas, practises, fashions, needs, values and
likes
Respect differences
don’t discriminate against others
Always imagine how you would feel if you were the other person
Race, gender and ability
Respect all races
Everybody needs respect
We all have different abilities
Respect people who are differently abled than yourself, show your acknowledge, value and admire them
Power and gender
Power
Have control or authority over another person or environment
Refers to force, strength or might
Ability to get it done
Power relations
Sharing of power between people in a relationship
Dominant or submissive/ meek
An unequal power relationship is where one person has the power to either give or deny something to the
Other person. Money, violence, emotional abuse and sexual intimacy
An equal power relationship is where no person has power over the other person
Masculinity
Having qualities that are associated with men or boys being manly sometimes combined with social
Customs. This encourages male control over women.
Behave in ways thought of as typical for men or boys
Femininity
Having qualities that are associated with women or girls. Behave in ways thought of as typical women.
What are self-awareness, self-esteem and self-development?
Self-awareness
Know yourself.
Interests, skills, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, goals, wishes and hopes,
values and beliefs
For example : enjoy - playing softball
value - honesty and respect
strengths - doing well in languages and mathematics
Weaknesses - waste time and arrive late for school
Likes - being with friends dislike selfish people
Goals - achieving 80s in all subjects
Interested - watching movies and reading books
Self-esteem
Like yourself
Believe in yourself, respect yourself, value yourself, have confidence
For example : feels confident
Work on improving weaknesses
Works on improving strengths
Likes, accept and believes in himself
Self-development
Improve yourself
Strengthen weaknesses build on your skills and strengths
For example : working on time management
Does not waste time
Keeps a diary and plans each day
If something needs to be done so he does it immediately
Factors that influence self-awareness and self-esteem
These factors include:
What other people say about you
What happens in your life
How well you cope with the difficult things in your life
, Your response or reaction to your success and failures
How popular you are, how much your friends like you
how the important people in your life treat you (either positive or negative)
The media such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, cellphone messages, internet and other
social media. Pictures ofperfect faces, bodies, you compare yourself to these images. When you can’t
look like the person you start to feel bad about yourself
Strategies to build confidence in yourself and in others
Know what can influence your self-esteem
Develop good communication, skills, finishing tasks successfully, taking part in community activities
making good decisions and affirming others.
Be assertive : say what you want to say clearly
Be polite and respectful
Know what you want
State your viewpoint
Please and thank you
Speak in public : the more you practise speaking in front of others, the easier it gets
Prepare your talk well, during the talk
Complete your tasks or projects successfully: manage your time. Make your deadlines, finish when you
start
Preserve don’t give up
Participate in community organizations: volunteer
Take part in events in your community
Play sport
Register to vote
Make good decisions: take responsibility for yourself. don’t blame others for your decisions
Affirm others: support, encourage and give praise
Help others become more confident
Let them see your respect
Appreciate others. Tell them you value them and that they are important to you and thank them.
Action plan to build self-esteem
Accept criticism if it is true and helpful
What will you do and why, when and how
, Acknowledge and respect uniqueness and differences
Uniqueness means that every person is different in some ways and is special
people have different looks, cultures, beliefs, skills, interests, ideas, practises, fashions, needs, values and
likes
Respect differences
don’t discriminate against others
Always imagine how you would feel if you were the other person
Race, gender and ability
Respect all races
Everybody needs respect
We all have different abilities
Respect people who are differently abled than yourself, show your acknowledge, value and admire them
Power and gender
Power
Have control or authority over another person or environment
Refers to force, strength or might
Ability to get it done
Power relations
Sharing of power between people in a relationship
Dominant or submissive/ meek
An unequal power relationship is where one person has the power to either give or deny something to the
Other person. Money, violence, emotional abuse and sexual intimacy
An equal power relationship is where no person has power over the other person
Masculinity
Having qualities that are associated with men or boys being manly sometimes combined with social
Customs. This encourages male control over women.
Behave in ways thought of as typical for men or boys
Femininity
Having qualities that are associated with women or girls. Behave in ways thought of as typical women.
