Chapter 12
LEARNING ABOUT YOURSELF
Your Self Concept
• Mental image you have if yourself
• Your personal beliefs and decision making skills
will influence your self concept
• Strong, positive self concept is important to:
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Believe in your capabilities
Believe you can control your life
Exercise self discipline and self control
Use effective communication skills
Demonstrate flexibility and interity
Self Esteem
• Feeling of self worth
• Positive self concept means confidence and
satisfaction in yourself
• Positive self esteem means you recognize and
value your uniqueness
• People with low self esteem often tend to see
themselves as failures and avoid everyday
challenges
Self Assessment
• Process of taking stock of your interests,
aptitudes, and abilities
• Helps you better plan for the future
• Makes it easier to find hobbies and choose
elective courses
• Take self assessment seriously
Interests
• Activities, events, and ideas that you like
• Once you determine your interest areas,
surround yourself with resources – people,
internet information, elective courses – that
relate to that interest area
Career Interest
• Learning about different careers and
occupations helps you determine what careers
interest you
• Job Shadowing, Internships, Volunteering –
could help to validate skills and tasks needed for
careers
APPTITUDE VERSES ABILITY
• Aptitude is a person’s natural physical and
mental talents for learning
• Example – Aptitude for writing; writer, web-site
contributor
• Ability – is a task or skill you have already
developed. Abilities are learned through training
and practice
• Example – Michael Jordan -baseball
• Your interests, aptitudes, and abilities all need to
be considered in career planning
• So you think this knowledge can help in high
school course planning? How?
• Williams web-site
• Career Cruising Course registration
• NC – Your lunch number
▫ Your computer password
▫ Assessments - Interest Survey and Learning
Styles Inventory
▫ Complete worksheet
Thursday - Personality
• Friday – Vocabulary Quiz – Chapter 12