2.2 Self-Evaluation
This is lesson RNH.2.2, “Self-Evaluation,” from the Reaching New Heights advisor’s guide to personal growth and leadership development. It introduces students to self-evaluation and its relationship to improvement, helping them identify personal strengths and weaknesses through personality-trait assessments and recognize that occasional failure is acceptable. The lesson includes facilitator handouts and student worksheets such as personality inventories and a four-quadrant (“Our Four Selves”) self-mapping activity.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define self-evaluation and its importance.
- Apply self-evaluation techniques to their lives to determine strengths and weaknesses.
- Understand that failure is okay and should be evaluated based on why the failure occurred and what changes can be made to increase the probability of success in the future.
- Time required
- 50 minutes
- Materials
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- RNH.2.2.AS.A – one per facilitator
- RNH.2.2.AS.B – one per student
- RNH.2.2.AS.C – one per student
- RNH.2.2.AS.D – one per student
- RNH.2.2.AS.E – one per student
- Purpose
- The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the subject of self-evaluation and how it relates to a person's ability to improve. The lesson will also cover understanding strengths and weaknesses, and it will acknowledge that occasional failure is okay.
- Connection Questions
- 1. What three things did you learn about yourself through the evaluations taken? 2. How can you build on your strengths and strengthen your weakness? 3. What makes you different from other people and successful in your own right?
- LifeKnowledge Connections – Precept(s) Addressed
- Social Growth — H1. Acknowledge that differences exist among people.
- LK Lesson Suggestion
- AHS.2 – Creating a Personal Vision; ASH.4 – Defining Personal Mission; ASH.5 – Creating Personal Mission