Personal Qualities and Skills Learning Objective To understand

Personal Qualities and Skills

Learning Objective • To understand how the way in which personal qualities, attitudes, skills and achievements are valued can affect confidence and self-esteem. Success Criteria • To identify your personal skills and qualities. • To write a paragraph detailing your personal skills and qualities. • To reflect on how sharing personal information can affect confidence and self-esteem.

The Best Things about Me Working in pairs, ask each other ‘What are the best things about me? ’ Then answer the question! Pro-active Trustworthy Funny Cheerful Friendly Efficient Helpful Punctual Considerate Conscientious Confident Hard working

Skills and Qualities Dictionary Skill - something that you are able to do well Quality - a particular characteristic or personality trait that you have Complete questions 1 and 2 from the What Are My Qualities and Skills? Activity Sheet. Work in pairs to answer question 3 on the activity sheet; this asks your working partner to check that you have included information about all of the best things about you! Then complete question 4 independently.

How Do You Feel? How do you feel discussing your skills and qualities with your peers? Write an answer and share it with your group. Would anyone like to share the paragraph that they wrote about themselves, with the rest of the class? Why/why not? Would you feel happier sharing your work with a small group? Why/why not? Who would you be willing to share this piece of work with? How do you think it would make you feel to share this work with them?

Plenary You will be given a word/phrase that you have used in today’s lesson. Nominate a person in the room who has the skill or quality that you have been given.