Personal Development
First Semester 2024-2025
Mrs. Raquel C. Sapong
Teacher III
Getting to know yourself:
Personal Development
ORIENTATION to PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
To the Student of Personal Development:
Welcome to this course, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, or PERDEV for short.
This is a very interesting course, and can become the most personally rewarding for you,
because the subject matter for this course is YOU!
As a new senior high school student, you have now entered a new educational
level, as well as a new psychological and social level, called the middle and late
adolescence. You may feel that you are no longer the rapidly growing and awkward
teenager, but you also feel you are not quite ready to call yourself a mature adult either.
This course shall make you take a deeper look at yourself and analyze your
developmental changes, your skills and traits which can help you meet the various tasks
that you must undertake at this point in your life. It shall provide you with some
techniques to meet stress and other mental health issues with one’s strengths and coping
powers. The course shall also give you the chance to analyze your relationships with
your family, friends and significant others. Finally, the PERDEV course shall help you
take stock of where you are in your career development and how to get to where you
want to be.
COURSE CONTENT
There are 4 units in PERDEV, as follows:
Unit 1 – Self-Development
Unit 2 – Aspects of Personal Development
Unit 3 – Building and Maintaining Relationships
Unit 4 – Career Development
There will be several modules under each unit, to be
taken up in several class sessions, each of which
addresses a key concern in personal development.
COURSE METHOD:
PERDEV uses the experiential learning approach,
wherein you as a student will participate in activities in
class to explore specific themes in your development.
You will interact with your classmates, do projects with
them, discuss various topics, and share your own
thoughts, feelings and experiences.
You will also make personal reflections and write
them down. In this manner of self-refection and sharing,
you shall help reveal and articulate relevant concepts,
theories, and tools in different areas of your life.
YOUR TEACHER:
Your teacher is the guide and facilitator
of this course. He/she shall lead the activities
by giving instructions and supervising the
procedures. However, since the subject
matter is yourself, the success of the modules
depends on the participation and cooperation
of you and your classmates.
MATERIALS FOR PERDEV:
1.Activity Sheets
2.Bond paper
3.Pencil
4.Art materials
5.Folder with plastic front
cover
6.Yellow pad paper
7.Journal
REQUIREMENTS FOR PERDEV:
You should have a journal or notebook for PERDEV, in which you
will write your reflections, insights, comments and opinions. You should
also have a portfolio for PERDEV, which may be a large brown or plastic
envelope, a clear book, or an envelope bag. This is where you will store all
the reflections, research outputs, journal entries, survey questionnaires,
and other written materials and artwork which you do as class work,
seatwork, or homework for PERDEV.
At the end of each unit, your teacher shall collect your portfolio
and give you a grade based on the completeness and quality of your
work, your class attendance and participation, and other special
requirements that you agree on in the beginning of the semester.
ASSESSMENT AND GRADING SYSTEM:
Assessment of PERDEV shall be through the use of rubrics. A
rubric refers to a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of your
outputs, whether done individually or in a group. There are 8 portfolio
output requirements for every unit of the course, with a maximum of
16 points per output, and a maximum of 16 points for attendance per
unit. The maximum number of points you can obtain for the unit (or
the quarter) is 144 points, and the number of points shall be
converted to grade equivalents as follows:
What is your
idea about
Personal
Development?
Personal Development
Personal development or self-
improvement consists of activities
that develop a person’s
capabilities and potential, build
human capital, facilitate
employability, enhance the
realization of dreams and
aspirations.
ENGAGEMENT: What I have learned?
• What is my perspective on personal
development?
• What words can I use to describe myself?
• What are the characteristics I want to
change and improve?
• What are my future plans?
