perdev

• Units in PERDEV


  • Unit 1 - Self-Development
  • Unit 2 - Aspects of Personal Development
  • Unit 3 - Building and Maintaining Relationships
  • Unit 4 - Career Development
• Rubrics


  • Rubric for individual work (reflection papers)
  • Rubric for group work (group discussions, group projects, etc)
  • Rubric for skit or role-play
  • Rubric for attendance and participation
• Career goal


  A personal goal based on self-assessment of various personal factors
• Personal factors influencing career choices

  • Personality traits and other personal factors in relation to life goals
• Taking a self-assessment tool


  To know one's personality traits and other personal factors in relation to life goals
• Making a career plan

  Based on personal goal and external factors influencing career choices
• The self-concept inventory is used to assess one's self-perception
• There can be a difference between one's real self-image and social image
• The actual self is who we actually are, while the ideal self is how we want to be
• Alignment between the actual self and ideal self is important for mental well-being
• Personal development aims to increase self-knowledge and alignment between actual and ideal self
• John Adams: '"A pen is certainly is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and inflame his ambition."'
• Moviegoer


  This person watches the movie of their lives, admires some parts and criticizes others. Aside from that, they do nothing else
• Actor


  This person does not only watch the movie of her life. She actually realizes she's the Actor – and can control a big part of her life
• Scriptwriter


  This person does not only watch, and she doesn't only act, but she actually creates the entire movie from her mind
• Purpose of journal writing

  • To help you become the Scriptwriter of your life
• The self-concept is represented by several aspects of the self. It is conceived as collection of multiple, context-dependent selves
• Consumers act rationally by


  Maximising their utility
• Producers act rationally by


  Selling goods/services in a way that maximises their profits
• Workers act rationally by


  Balancing welfare at work with consideration of both pay and benefits
• Governments act rationally by


  Placing the interests of the people they serve first in order to maximise their welfare
• Rationality in classical economic theory is a flawed assumption as people usually don't act rationally
• A firm increases advertising

  Demand curve shifts right
• Demand curve shifting right

  Increases the equilibrium price and quantity
• Marginal utility


  The additional utility (satisfaction) gained from the consumption of an additional product
• Success


  About right mindset, emotional resilience and proper behavior
• When was the time you feel disappointed by the choice of behavior because you knew that there was a more positive option but you just didn't choose it?
• What ways or techniques or exercises do you use to strengthen yourself so as to increase its potency to choose and hence control your life?
• In what specific ways do you feed the negative wolf?
• What specific ways do you use to feed the positive wolf?
• Big Question: How can adolescents be prepared for adult life by accomplishing various developmental tasks according to developmental stages?
• "Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values." - Joshua L. Liebman
• Topic 7: Understanding Development Process, Stages and Tasks
• Use the Motivation to introduce the topic on developmental stages and tasks


  1. Remind students that things have progression or certain patterns

  2. Life also has developmental stages
• Activity on Personal Timeline can be a sensitive activity especially for students who are quite emotional

  1. Give a very positive introduction by orienting them about the purpose of the activity

  2. Remind students that this activity is not just about placing all their experiences, both the positive or negative but it is about seeing their transitions and developments as they go through life

  3. They need to plan their personal timeline carefully and be mindful of the events that made them grow, that they have learned important wisdom in life and where they rise from the challenges

  4. Focus on the resiliency rather than the downfall

  5. In this way, they can see the future progressively and full of hope

  6. Refer sensitive or apathetic students to the guidance counselor
• Explain the Developmental Stages, and concentrate on the developmental tasks during Adolescence and Early Adulthood

  Entertain questions and discussions on the issues of this developmental stage
• Explain the expected Portfolio Output No. 5: My Personal Timeline with Reflection
• Motivation: LINE-UP


  1. Tell the students to line up in the order of their birthdays, from oldest to youngest without speaking

  2. This teaches them to cooperate and learn about each other

  3. In large groups, you can have them line up by other categories like tallest to shortest
• Activity: MY PERSONAL TIMELINE

  1. Write the major events and significant people in your life on a bond paper

  2. Be creative in your representations using symbols, figures and drawings

  3. Think of a title for your personal timeline
• Portfolio Output No. 5: My Personal Timeline with Reflection