PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Grade 12
Remember the KNOW Rules:
1.
K = Keep quite.
2.
N = No loafing. No celphone and no littering.
3.
O = Open all ears and eyes to focused on the lesson.
4.
W =When in class remember to sit properly.
What are the 2 brain dominance?
 Right Brain Dominance
These people are intuitive, risk-takers, creative. feelings visualization,
adventure, writing, imagination.
 Left Brain Dominance
These people are organized, logical, detail-oriented, keep a tidy
room, follow and read directions.
What is the value of learning the brain dominance?
= Knowing an individual’s brain dominance can help you understand
his/her “ways” of thinking, behaving, speaking, and functioning. Also, it can
help parents and educators tailor activities to a child’s natural learning
preferences.
TRAIN TO BE SMART, DUMP BEING
DUMB
At the end of the lesson you are able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the brain parts, its processes and functions.
2. Identify ways to improved brain functions which will be manifested in
thoughts, behavior and feelings.
3. Develop a personal plan to improved brain functions.
4. Value the significance of developing a personal plan to improved brain
functions.
Activity 1: Rediscovering My Own
Giftedness (3 minutes)
 Directions:
Relive the moment when you were just a kid, using the chart
below, identify those things that you usually enjoy doing or that you think you
are good at. Remember, you do not need to be experts on these fields, you
just need to recognize that these gifts have been part of you as a kid, or still
even now as an adolescent. You only have 3 minutes to do the task.
 What can you say about your giftedness as shown from the chart above?
= Remember your gift, your innate abilities may served as the foundation of
your success.
 Were there new discoveries and/or realizations after doing this activity?
= Every gift have different abilities in which we are excellent. We have
different ways to absorb information and solve problems to create products that
are of value.
 If you will be given the chance to further improve that gift, how will you do it?
My Giftedness as My Intelligence:
 Howard Gardner: Multiple intelligence
 The focus of this lesson is for you to further appreciate that your intelligence
(in various forms) can still be grown.
 let us dump the idea that people are born either intelligent, average, or
dump – and stays the same throughout their lifetime.
THE GROWING INTELLIGENCE:
 Intelligence is not a physical aspect of the mind, rather it is part of mind’s
functions which is not necessarily dependent upon the size of the Human
Brain.
Real questions at hand are:
 can you really make yourself smarter?
 What do studies say about this?
 What are the different ways to do so?
 Is it achievable?
 The growth of the brain functions can be associated to a person’s muscle –
it can grow, when you use it. Hence, the more that we learn, the more that
we can maximize the human brain’s capacity to understand.
 Learning and challenging the mind further to its greatest extent can
improve the performance of the neurons and that they grow and they
multiply.
HOW DO WE KNOW IF THE BRAIN CAN GROW STRONGER?
 Scientists have been studying about animal’s brain and they found that
animals that lived in an environment that is stimulating, having other
animals around and toys to play with, had more connections between the
nerve cells in their brains – and that their brains were stronger, and heavier
than those animals that lived in isolation. This finding is because of the
reality that those animals that lived in isolation spend their time mostly in
sleeping and eating while those that lived with animals and toys were
active discovering how to get along with other animals and how to use the
toys.
 the same process applies to human beings.Human intelligence is
malleable, it can be shaped accordingly, if only it is exposed to
appropriate environment and enough stimulation.
2 Major Perspective of Human Intelligence:
Growth and Fixed Mindset
FIXED MINSET
GROWTH MINDSET
Avoid challenges.
View Challenges as opportunities.
Refuse to receive criticism or
feedback.
Embrace constructive feedback.
Focus on proving yourself.
Focus on the process not the end
result.
Feel threatened by others success
Be inspired by others success
Can’t accept failures or mistakes.
Learn and grow from failures.
Stay away from unfamiliar things.
Always step out of the comfort zone.
Believe that talent is static.
Believed that talent can be
improved.
Ways to train the brain and get
smarter.
 The basic concept about brain development is that it grows when it is
stimulated by the environment. Stimulation happens when our senses are
activated, and we become aware of the things happening around us. By
processing the information from our world, we question things and we
acquire answers to question.
 When questions are answered, this brings us to further questioning and
further chance to improved our learning.
How to Build Intelligence
 1. Set goal and become motivated. Begin to explore new concept or skill.
(A new neuron is formed through the process called neurogenesis)
 2. You see, hear, think and talk about the new concept and make
connections to things that you already know (The neuron axon fires and
chemical signals are sent to the dendrites of other neurons).
 3. You practice over and over and pay attention to your mistakes, You think
deeply of tis new concept , focus on the parts that are hard for you and
don’t take any shortcuts ( Dendrites grow like branches out of the neurons
and reach out for the neurons).
 4. You test yourself on the new concept and apply your knowledge to
unique situation. You push yourself to see how much you can learn, and
explain the concept to other people(The dendrites continue to grow more
branches and the signals between them fire more quickly to other
dendrites).
 5, You find that some parts that once seemed hard are a little easier but you
continue to push yourself on the next challenge and learn from your
mistakes. With more practice your dendrites continue to grow ( The network
of neurons becomes more efficient and powerful, making the brain denser
and smarter than it was before.
Concrete Ways to Improve One’s
Intelligence
1. Read Books, and Read a Lot.
11. Have a Regular Workout
2. Use Filtered News Services
12. Allow Yourself to Daydream
3. Hang Out with Smart people
13. Socialize
4. Aim to do something new everyday
14. Draw, Paint, or Color
5. Play Board games
15. Travel as Often as You can
6. Make a list of the things you have done
7. Learn a New Language
8. Explain What you Know to Others
9. Practice Mindfulness
10.Write Your Notes by Hand
 Differentiate fixed and growth mindset?
= Fixed mindset believed that intelligent and talent are fixed while
growth mindset believed that intelligence and talent can be developed.
 Based on your initial assessment of your own point of view about
intelligence in which side do you belong? why?
 What are your discoveries about human intelligence? How do you feel
about this discoveries?
= human intelligence can be develop specially if you are exposed in an
appropriate environment and enough stimulation.
= By embracing the growth mindset and believing that the intelligence can
be grown, we can conclude that your intelligence can be develop as well.
Activity 2: BRAINgo-WinO (5 minutes)
 Directions:
Choose among the patterns below. Choose the pattern which you
think will give you more chances of winning. This depends upon your pacing.
Whether you wanted to start from 4 small ways or if you are ready doing 9 full
swing. After identifying your winning pattern, use the blank BRAIN Card below
to write down specific ways in improving your own intelligence. You may
choose among the list suggested above or you may add up your own
personal ways.:
Road to Becoming Smarter
 Directions :
Provided below is a sample road map. You customize your road map
depending on the number of ways you have chosen above. Plot the different
ways as to what comes first and what comes last. Also, provide specific details
and timeframe when would you like to achieve all of these.
Concrete Ways to Improve One’s Intelligence
1. Read Books, and Read a Lot.
11. Have a Regular Workout
2. Use Filtered News Services
12. Allow Yourself to Daydream
3. Hang Out with Smart people
13. Socialize
4. Aim to do something new everyday
14. Draw, Paint, or Color
5. Play Board games
15. Travel as Often as You can
6. Make a list of the things you have done
7. Learn a New Language
8. Explain What you Know to Others
9. Practice Mindfulness
10.Write Your Notes by Hand
 What have you discovered about yourself in relation to this lesson? How do
you feel about this discoveries?
 What is the value of developing a personal plan to enhance brain
functions?
Evaluation:
MYTH BUSTERS
Directions: Below is a list of 10 statements pertaining to the lesson we
discussed. Bust every myth you see by crossing it out from the group.
Thank you!!!