Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SORSOGON
BULAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 12

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET 4

Name of the Student: _______________________________________________________________

Grade & Strand: _____________________________ Date: ___________________

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
1. Discuss how facing the challenges during adolescence, you may able to clarify
and manage the demands of teen years,
2. Express your feelings on the expectations of the significant people around you,
such as your parents, siblings, friends, teachers, community leaders, and
3. Make affirmations that help you become more lovable and capable as an
adolescent.

II. ACTIVITIES
A. Let Us Review – In your own understanding, explain at least 50 words about the
passage below of Brian Tracy. Write your answer in a long bond paper.
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking: “What’s in it for me?” – Brian
Tracy

B. Let Us Study
Reading: THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD:
CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE
Physical Development
• Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age 15.
• Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and
are completing the development of sexual traits.

Emotional Development
• May stress over school and test scores.
• Is self-involved (may have high expectations and low self-concept).
• Seeks privacy and time alone.
• Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
• May complain that parents prevent him or her from doing things
independently.
• Starts to want both physical and emotional intimacy in relationships.
• The experience of intimate partnerships

Social Development
• shifts in relationship with parents from dependency and subordination to
one that reflects the adolescent’s increasing maturity and responsibilities
in the family and the community,
• Is more and more aware of social behaviors of friends.
• Seeks friends that share the same beliefs, values, and interests.
• Friends become more important.
• Starts to have more intellectual interests.
• Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others.
• May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex).
 Mental Development
• Becomes better able to set goals and think in terms of the future.
• Has a better understanding of complex problems and issues.
• Starts to develop moral ideals and to select role models.

Reading: ENCOURAGEMENT 101: The Courage to Be Imperfect

by Timothy D. Evans, Ph.D.
Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving your relationships with
others. It is the single most important skill necessary for getting along with others –
so important that the lack of it could be considered the primary cause of conflict
and misbehavior. Encouragement develops a person’s psychological hardiness and
social interest. Encouragement is the lifeblood of a relationship. And yet, this
simple concept is often very hard to put into practice.
Encouragement is not a new idea. Its spiritual connotation dates back to the
Bible in Hebrews 3:11 which states “Encourage one another daily.”
Encouragement, as a psychological idea, was developed by psychiatrist Alfred Adler
in the early
20th century and continued to evolve through the work of Adler’s follower Rudolph
Dreikurs. However, even today, relatively few educators, parents, psychologists,
leaders or couples have utilized this valuable concept. Most of the time, people
mistakenly use a technique like praise in an effort to “encourage” others.
Half the job of encouragement lies in avoiding discouraging words and actions.
When children or adults misbehave, it is usually because they are discouraged.
Instead of building them up, we tear them down; instead of recognizing their efforts
and improvements, we point out mistakes; instead of allowing them to belong
through shared decision-making and meaningful contributions, we isolate and label
them.
Most of us are skilled discouragers. We have learned how to bribe, reward and,
when that fails, to punish, criticize, nag, threaten, interrogate and emotionally
withdraw. We do this as an attempt to control those we love, bolstered by the
mistaken belief that we are responsible for the behavior of everyone around us,
especially our spouses and children. These attempts to control behavior create
atmospheres of tension and conflict in many houses.

Most commonly, we discourage in five general ways:

• We set standards that are too high for others to meet because we are
overly ambitious.
• We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or improved behavior.
• We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to one another).
• We automatically give a negative spin to the actions of others.
• We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that they are unable to
do it as well.
Encouragement is not a technique nor is it a special language used to gain
compliance. Encouragement conveys the idea that all human beings are
worthwhile, simply because they exist. In one sentence, Mr. Rogers does more for a
child’s sense of adequacy than a hundred instances of praise when he says, “I like
you just the way you are.” Not I like you when you do it well enough, fast enough
and get it all correct. Encouragement develops children’s psychological hardiness --
their ability to function and recover when things aren’t going their way.
Encouragement enhances a feeling of belonging which leads to greater social
interest. Social interest is the tendency for people to unite themselves with other
human beings and to accomplish their tasks in cooperation with others. The
Junior League mission of “developing the potential of women and improving
communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers” is
rooted in the idea of social interest.
 The first step to becoming an encouraging person is to learn to distinguish
encouragement from discouragement. As a rule, ask yourself: Whatever I say or do,
will it bring me closer together or farther apart from this person?
We all have the power to be more encouraging people. The choice, as always,
is yours.

C. Let Us Practice
1. Read the essay on “Being Happy”.
2. Explain your thoughts and feelings about it. Include specific ways in which
you will develop yourself further. Write your answer in a long bond paper.
You will be rated using the rubric below;
Scoring Rubric for Short and Extended Response
Score Score Indicator
4 The response provides all aspects of a complete interpretation and/or a
correct solution. The response thoroughly addresses the points relevant to
the concept or task. It provides strong evidence that information,
reasoning, and conclusions have a definite logical relationship. It is clearly
focused and organized, showing relevance to the concept, task, or solution
process.
3 The response provides the essential elements of an interpretation and/or a
solution. It addresses the points relevant to the concept or task. It provides
ample evidence that information, reasoning, and conclusions have a logical
relationship. It is focused and organized, showing relevance to the concept,
task, or solution process.
2 The response provides a partial interpretation and/or solution. It
somewhat addresses the points relevant to the concept or task. It provides
some evidence that information, reasoning, and conclusions have a
relationship. It is relevant to the concept and/or task, but there are gaps in
focus and organization.
1 The response provides an unclear, inaccurate interpretation and/or
solution. It fails to address or omits significant aspects of the concept or
task. It provides unrelated or unclear evidence that information, reasoning,
and conclusions have a relationship. There is little evidence of focus or
organization relevant to the concept, task, and/or solution process.

Reading: BEING HAPPY

You may have defects, be anxious and sometimes live irritated, but do
not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can
prevent it from going into decadence. There are many that need you, admire you
and love you. I would like to remind you that being happy is not having a sky
without storms, or roads without accidents, or work without fatigue, or
relationships without disappointments.
Being happy is finding strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s battles,
security at the stage of fear, love in disagreements.
Being happy is not only to treasure the smile, but that you also reflect on
the sadness. It is not just commemorating the event, but also learning lessons in
failures. It is not just having joy with the applause, but also having joy in
anonymity.
Being happy is to recognize that it is worthwhile to live, despite all the challenges,
misunderstandings and times of crises.
Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory for those who can travel
towards it with your own being.
Being happy is to stop being a victim of problems but become an actor in
history itself. It is not only to cross the deserts outside of ourselves, but still more,
 to be able to find an oasis in the recesses of our soul. It is to thank God every
morning for the miracle of life.
Being happy is not being afraid of one's feelings. It is to know how to talk
about ourselves. It is to bear with courage when hearing a "no". It is to have the
security to receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is to kiss the children, pamper the
parents, have poetic moments with friends, even if they have hurt us.
Being happy means allowing the free, happy and simple child inside each
of us to live; having the maturity to say, "I was wrong"; having the audacity to say,
"forgive me". It is to have sensitivity in expressing, "I need you"; to have the ability of
saying, "I love you." So that your life becomes a garden full of opportunities for
being happy...
In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In your winter, may
you become a friend of wisdom. And when you go wrong along the way, you start
all over again. Thus you will be more passionate about life. And you will find that
happiness is not about having a perfect life but about using tears to water
tolerance, losses to refine patience, failures to carve serenity, pain to lapidate
pleasure, obstacles to open the windows of intelligence.
Never give up ... Never give up on the people you love. Never give up from
being happy because life is an incredible show. And you are a special human being!

III. EVALUATION
Portfolio Output No. 8: Slogan on “Being Happy”
Create a slogan in a long bond paper on “How you can cope with the stress
for a healthful living in your own personal ways.”
You will be rated using the rubric below;
Rubric for Slogan
Category 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Craftsmanship The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is
exceptionally attractive in acceptably distractive and
attractive in terms of attractive messy.
terms of neatness. Good though it
neatness. Well- constructed and may be a bit
constructed not very messy. messy.
and not messy.
Creativity The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is The slogan does
exceptionally creative and a creative and not reflect any
creative. A lot good amount of some thought degree of
of thought and thought was put was put into creativity.
effort was used into decorating decorating it.
to make the it.
banner.
Originality Exceptional Good use of new Average use No use of new
use of new ideas and of new ideas ideas and
ideas and originality to and originality to
originality to create slogan. originality to create slogan.
create slogan create slogan.

IV. REFERENCES
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/49326/179_ftp.pdf

http://carterandevans.com/portal/index.php/adlerian-theory/84-encouragement-
101the-courage-to-be-imperfect
https://www.facebook.com/mcspa/posts/10153625162832490
Prepared by: Checked & Verified by:

CELINNE G. LAGUERAS MARK GLEN L. TEJADA

Teacher I SGH-PE & Health Subject

Recommending Approval:

MARIVIC A. AŇONUEVO
ASP II, SHS

Approved:

SALVE E. FERRERAS
Principal III

Noted:

LEONISA M. ENOLVA
OIC-PSDS, Bulan II