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Prepare for Independent Living

Prepare for Independent Living. Unit #1. Essential Question Journal Entry #U-1. Self-Development: Write a journal entry about one of the topics below: Identify the various organizations and activities with which you have been involved over the past few years.

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Prepare for Independent Living

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  1. Prepare for Independent Living Unit #1

  2. Essential Question Journal Entry #U-1 • Self-Development: Write a journal entry about one of the topics below: • Identify the various organizations and activities with which you have been involved over the past few years. • Describe a skill you learned from a class or activity and explain how you might apply is in the future. • Cite one of your life goals and the specific skills you think will be needed to achieve it.

  3. Learning Targets • Name the four main categories of personality characteristics. • Describe how a healthy self-concept can improve your confidence. • Demonstrate the connection between personal growth and potential. • Explain why the ability to adapt to change is an essential life skill. • Summarize the personal qualities that can help you face life’s challenges. • Explain why character is vital to personal growth and to society. • Outline the ways in which values are acquired. • Describe how personal standards can help you take control of like experiences. • Define ethical behavior. • Describe how a person can demonstrate responsible citizenship. • Identify two qualities necessary to be responsible. • Summarize the benefits of practicing leadership. • Explain how members of an organization achieve more than individuals acting alone. • Name four things a volunteer uses to make a difference. • List nine responsibilities of all citizens.

  4. Personal Growth Concept #1

  5. Essential Question Journal Entry #C-1 • Who Am I? Suppose that you had to complete this sentence: “I am…” What would you say? What personal characteristics come to mind first?

  6. Be Your Best Topic #1.1

  7. Learning Targets • Name the four main categories of personality characteristics. • Describe how a healthy self-concept can improve your confidence. • Demonstrate the connection between personal growth and potential.

  8. Your Personality • Personality: • The combination of characteristics that makes you different from everyone else. • Your unique personality includes your strengths and weaknesses, needs, and ways of expressing yourself. • Introspective: • Looking closely at your own feelings, thoughts, and motives.

  9. Categories of Personality • Emotional: • Every person feels the same basic emotions, yet responds to them individually. • Social: • In society, people meet, interact, and relate to one another in different ways. • Intellectual: • Using your mind rather than your emotions to make decisions is a sign of intellectual maturity. • Moral: • Morality: • A sense of right and wring that guides decisions and actions. • Value: • An accepted principle or standard held by a person or a group.

  10. Self-Concept and Self-Esteem • Self-Concept: • The way you see yourself and the way you believe others see you. • Self-Esteem: • The value or importance you place on yourself.

  11. Realize Your Potential • Potential: • The capacity to develop, succeed, or become something more than you are right now. • How to Maximize Your Potential: • Set Priorities • Consider Interests and Activities • Develop Supportive Friendships • Avoid Procrastination: • Procrastination: • The tendency to put off doing something until later. • Be Health-Smart • Practice Abstinence: • Abstinence: • The deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors.

  12. Personal Growth and Maturity • Personal Growth: • Learning and practicing new skills as you progress toward reaching your full potential.

  13. Changes and Challenges Topic #1.2

  14. Learning Targets • Explain why the ability to adapt is an essential life skill. • Summarize the personal qualities that can help you face life’s challenges.

  15. Developing Competence • Competence: • Having the qualities and skills needed to perform a task or participate fully in an activity.

  16. Gaining Confidence • Common characteristics you often observe in confident people: • Self-Assurance • Self-Control • Willingness to Take Reasonable Risks • Positive Self-Concept and High Self-Esteem

  17. A Positive Attitude • Resiliency: • The ability to recover from or adjust to change or misfortune. • Perseverance: • Sticking to an action or belief, even when it is difficult.

  18. Character Building Concept #2

  19. Essential Question Journal Entry #C-2 • Whom do you admire?

  20. Character and Values Topic #2.1

  21. Learning Targets • Explain why character is vital to personal growth and to society. • Outline the ways in which values are acquired.

  22. What is Character? • Character: • The development and application of commonly held principles which promote personal growth, establish good citizenship, and support society.

  23. Character and Well-Being • Consequence: • Something that follows as a result of an action or choice. • Mentor: • A person who acts as a teacher and a guide.

  24. Live by Your Values • Guidelines that can help you act according to your values: • Consider the consequences. • Listen to your conscience. • Conscience: • The thinking that leads you to do what is right rather than wrong. • Turn to your family. • Gain knowledge. • Evaluate the source. • Talk to others.

  25. Standards and Ethics Topic #2.2

  26. Learning Targets • Describe how personal standards can help you take control of life experiences. • Define ethical behaviors.

  27. Setting Your Standards • Personal Standard: • A rule or principle you set for yourself. • Proactive: • Take the initiative to think and plan ahead for situation you might encounter. • Peer Pressure: • The influence of others in your age group.

  28. Values Guide Your Standards • Guidelines to Follow: • Use Discretion: • Discretion: • The good judgment and sensitivity needed to avoid embarrassing or upsetting others, and to keep sensitive information private. • Follow the rules of society. • Learn from others. • Know what you value.

  29. Making Ethical Choices • Ethics: • The principles and values that guide the way you live.

  30. Responsible Citizenship Concept #3

  31. Essential Question Journal Entry #C-3 • Citizenship: Write an outline about a time when you saw someone demonstrate good citizenship.

  32. The Role of a Citizen Topic #3.1

  33. Learning Targets • Describe how a person can demonstrate responsible citizenship. • Identify two qualities necessary to be responsible. • Summarize the benefits of practicing leadership.

  34. Make a Difference • Citizen: • A member of a community. • Citizenship: • The way that you handle your responsibilities as a citizen.

  35. Show Responsibility • Accountability: • Willingness to accept the consequences of your actions and your words.

  36. Become a Leader • Leadership: • The ability to direct and motivate a team or group to achieve its goals. • Benefits of Leadership Opportunities: • You gain experience in communicating your ideas to a variety of people. • You learn to resolve conflicts. • You develop competence and confidence as you guide others. • You learn and practice skills that will be useful at work an in your family throughout life. • Collaboration: • The combined, cooperative efforts of everyone in a group.

  37. Get Involved Topic #3.2

  38. Learning Targets • Explain how members of an organization achieve more than individuals acting alone. • Name four things a volunteer uses to make a difference. • List nine responsibilities of all citizens.

  39. Participate in Organizations • Outreach Program: • A program that offers assistance or services to the community, usually as an act of charity or goodwill. • How to make a bigger difference: • Attend meetings regularly. • Understand the mission, goals, and activities of the group. • Participate on a committee. • Follow through with assigned tasks and responsibilities. • Develop leadership skills, and improve teamwork skills. • Recruit new members, and promote the organization.

  40. Volunteering in Your Community • Volunteer: • Someone who puts caring into action by offering services free of charge.

  41. Service Learning • Service Learning: • Involves taking what you learn in the classroom and using it to meet a community need.

  42. Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities • Respect others’ rights. • Obey laws. • Prevent and report crime. • Comply with emergency and security procedures. • Pay taxes. • Stay informed. • Participate in government. • Perform jury duty when called. • Serve in the military if called.

  43. Bibliography • Clark, P., Couch, S., & Felstehausen, G. “Managing life skills.” (2011). Glencoe McGraw-Hill; New York.

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