HS.71 Appreciating Individual Talents and Strengths
This is a LifeKnowledge high school lesson plan (HS.71, “Appreciating Individual Talents and Strengths”) teaching students to recognize the benefits of identifying personal talents and strengths, to assess their own talents through various tools and inventories, and to apply strategies for capitalizing on individual talents within a team. It includes an interest approach with pipe cleaners and a memory activity, transparencies, an assessment worksheet, and FFA/SAE application activities.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe the benefits of identifying individual talents and strengths.
- Assess individual talents and strengths.
- Identify strategies to capitalize on individual talents within a team.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Pipe cleaners—three per student
- 15 common classroom objects—stapler, paper clip, notebook, etc.
- Sheet
- Transparencies and Projector
- HS.71.TM.A
- HS.71.TM.B
- HS.71.TM.C
- HS.71.AS.A—one per student
- Talent and strengths assessment (see Summary of Content and Teaching strategies Objective 2)
- Unit
- Stage Two of Development—WE
- Problem Area
- How Do We Play as a Team?
- Precepts
- A7: Invest in others by enabling and empowering them.
- Key Terms
- Talents, Capitalize, Assess
- Resources
- Maxwell, John C. Developing the Leader Within You. Nashville, Tennessee. Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1993.
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.4Positive and Negative Incentives — Understand that acting as citizens, people respond to incentives in order to allocate their scarce resources in ways that provide the highest possible returns to them.