Personal Development:Self Awareness
In this unit you will develop your confidence and self esteem by taking part in a project to develop your self awareness. You will look at yourself and assess your personal qualities and think about your feelings.
You will use what you learn about yourself to:
- Track your progress
- Look back at what you have learned about yourself and make changes as a result of your experience
And you'll learn more about yourself (become more self aware) and your strengths and weaknesses as you go along.
Your tutor will support and guide you all the way.
The learning outcomes for this unit are (click to expand):
Evaluate self knowledge
For this outcome you will look at yourself and your feelings and qualities in preparation for making a career plan. You will also find out how others see you.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
If you wish, you can complete activities to support your learning. Once you complete them you can save the results to your blog.
Online activities to help you are:
- Personal qualities: a game to explore the type of person you are and how other people see you
- Career planning: information on the skills and knowledge involved in planning your future
- Work values: a game to help you explore what motivates or influences you
- Feelings: a game where you can explore both positive and negative feelings
Review, reflect, record
To show what you have learned you should keep a record, so have a look at the Career investigation checklist and fill in the Personal Development self awareness form.
Your tutor will discuss this with you, give you advice and make comments before you use the blog to record evidence.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Carry out a self awareness project
You will undertake a project to help you work out your plans for the future in the form of a career plan.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
Review, reflect, record
To show what you have learned you should keep a record. You can fill in My tasks for preparing a career plan before you complete My career plan.
Your tutor will discuss these with you, give you advice and make comments before you use the blog to record evidence.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Review progress
For this outcome you will look back on what you have learned and achieved through your career planning project:
- Compare where you are now with your original self assessment
- Discuss and comment on your tutor's report
- Relate what you have learned to your future plans
You will learn how to review your learning to make the most of your plans for personal and work related goals. Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
Review, reflect, record
To show what you have learned you should keep a record, so fill in the Review and reflect form.
Your tutor will discuss this with you, give you advice and make comments before you use the blog to record evidence.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
