1. Creating a Self-Portrait
Who Are You?
Creating a Self-Portrait

2. Self-Assessment
To understand yourself fully, you need to analyze and reflect upon who you are.
Self-assessment is a process of determining who you are.
Continually assessing who you are physically, mentally, and emotionally will help you to make decision about your future lifestyle and career.

3. Who Am I?
Teacher example
Fill in your “Who Am I?” section

4. My Personal History Open to this chart: Categories Description
Subjects I enjoy in school
Subject with highest marks
Extra-curricular activities
Sports
Music
Artistic Accomplishments
Computer abilities
Part-time job(s)
Community involvement
Hobbies
Social/leisure activities
Awards, trophies
Leadership experience
English, Phys Ed and Biology
English
Production
Gymnastics and Basketball
Play my guitar a bit on the weekends
Poster for Remembrance day Gr. 6
Type very fast and good with Excel
Dairy Queen
Sunday school at church
Sewing and baking
Fires at friends and amusement rides
Principal’s list. MVP for basketball
Sunday school teacher.

6. Personality
Your individual, non-physical qualities made up of heredity, environment, and other factors
Heredity – unique genetic information with which you are born
Environment – surrounding conditions such as family, home life, friends, culture, school, media

7. Personality Quiz Read directions carefully
Answer Yes or No for each question
When complete check your answers using the chart at the bottom
Add up each row to find out your highest scores for each
Transfer this information to the Personality Self- Assessment section in the foldable

8. Multiple Intelligences
Developed by Howard Gardner
Intelligence can be learned throughout life.
Intelligence is more than just academics.
Everyone is highly intelligent in at least one of 8 different ways.
Some people show intelligence in some or all areas.

9. Multiple Intelligences Survey
Place a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 beside each statement
Total columns
Record your top two intelligences
Let’s look together and what each intelligence is all about – record, in your foldable:
Description of my type of intelligence:
Which activities help me learn best:
Possible career choices:

10. Values and Character What are your values or beliefs?
Values signify what is important and worthwhile. They are your inner standards from which you receive motivation to act as you do, and by which you judge behavior (both yours and others)
Your values say a lot about what type of person you are and what you are putting out into the world with what you say and what you do!

11. Let’s watch this short video to get us thinking about our own values…

12. Choices and Values: What’s Important to Me?
Indicate with a check mark items that are important to you.
Now, read back through those you selected and decide on your top five. Place these at the bottom of the page.
Now consult the results chart on the back.
Example: If I believe that #40 is most important, that relates to me valuing honesty and integrity.
Record your Characteristics from the Results Chart under the Value Self Assessment in your foldable
What does this mean to you?

13. Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence includes:
Knowing your feelings – use them to make life decisions
Able to manage your feelings – cope with negative feelings. Ex. Stress/worry
Persevering to achieve your goals
Understanding and being compassionate to others
Handling your feelings in a positive way in all types of relationships

14. Emotional Intelligence
The Quick Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment
Complete the questionnaire and then total each section.
Emotional Awareness (aware of your emotions – how they affect you and affect others)
Emotional Management (you are able to manage your emotions in all sorts of situations)
Social Emotional Awareness (Being able to work with and care for others in various situations)
Relationship Management (being able to build relationships with people, and consider the feeling and well being of others)

15. “If You Really Knew Me” Watch an episode of “If You Really Knew Me”
Written reflection in foldable

16. Artifact Activity Example of assignment
Go through, on your own, and determine what artifacts you would include.
Personal Statement
Now, let’s share our artifacts with the person beside us. Talk about each artifact, and how it fits in your life. While you’re talking consider how this would affect your career choices – pay attention to the example 
Class sharing

17. 1,000,000 question
We have $1,000,000 to give you, but we can’t do that until you have done something for us. Choose something you want to learn more about. Tell us what it is and why you want to learn about it. THEN we can give you the money!
What would you like to learn more about?
Why?