Life Skills Development/Unit One/The Wheel of Life/Discussion

1. Discuss all that you are to yourself and bring to others: ideas, values, biases, blind spots, strengths, weaknesses - to assess own attitudes. “The greatest discovery of my generation (about 1900) is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” William James.
2. Discuss in pairs of what makes you feel good about life; what stimulates you; makes you an optimist or a pessimist; your preference for crowds or solitude; your confidence or personal fears of inadequacy.
3. Discuss the Wheel of Life as a view of the balance of most things in your life. Work on your thoughts and feelings regarding your strengths in each and then on your weaknesses in each and your plans to improve in each area. Write within the wheel.
4. Discuss in pairs factors in the personal and other environments that can affect one’s self esteem positively as well as negatively.

Activity

Examine ways in which you can improve yourself: accept yourself; find purpose in your life; learn to deal with crises and decision making in life; developing a spiritual self; staying optimistic; taking responsibility for where you are in life now and make a plan to take charge of any changes you choose; Draw a picture or representation of yourself. Begin a Personal Development Plan with plans from the Wheel of Life and continue with plans and decisions from other themes.

Portfolio Contents

1. Completed Wheel of Life
2. Beginnings of a Personal Development Plan, with plans from the Wheel of Life and continue with plans and decisions from other themes
3. Picture or representation of self

Unit summary

In this unit you learned about self esteem and self image and the methods to identify and modify them. You identified feelings, emotions and attitudes and assessed their impact on your self esteem and image. Additionally, you developed a Personal Action Plan that would assist you in the accomplishment of your goals and any behavioural patters that need to be adjusted. You should be able to exhibit positive behaviour that shows self-love, praising self, positive action to others equal to or better than what you receive yourself.

Checklists of Performance Task

1. Completion of Wheel of Life

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I have written down my spiritual strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
2.	I have written down my physical strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
3.	I have written down my intellectual strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
4.	I have written down my cultural strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
5.	I have written down my emotional strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
6.	I have written down my social strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.
7.	I have written down my ancestral strengths, weaknesses and my plans to improve on these.

2. Beginning a portfolio with their Personal Development Plan including likes, dislikes, accomplishments and how they would like to improve on attitudes and actions discussed regarding the Wheel of Life

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I have spoken about my likes in my portfolio
2.	I have spoken about my dislikes in my portfolio
3.	I have included my accomplishments in my portfolio
4.	I have begun my Personal Development Plan based on the elements in the Wheel of Life
5.	I have completed a picture/collage/ representation of myself
6.	I have spoken about my opportunities in my portfolio.

3.

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I have drawn a web of the possible concepts of my topic
2.	I have done a table of the viewpoints of at least 3 persons involved in the role play.
3.	I brainstormed and drew a graphic organiser of our consensus on particular problem/s, likely plot, conflict and resolution to be enacted in the role play
4.	I participated in or was an attentive viewer of the role play
5.	I debriefed afterwards and wrote my reflections

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