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- 1. Personal Development Developmental Stages in the Middle and Late Adolescence
- 2. objectives: 1. Explain the various developmental tasks according to the developmental stage 2. Classify the various development task according to the developmental stage 3. Give importance to understanding the different developmental task of adolescence
- 4. Review: What are the various changes of the different aspects of your holistic development? physical/physiological, social, cognitive, moral/spiritual, and psychological/emotional.
- 5. Growing up is never easy considering the various developmental tasks that you need to learn to prepare yourself to the challenges of life. According to Robert Havighurst, these developmental tasks refer to the specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and functions that a person needs to acquire and, in turn, be able to demonstrate at certain periods in his or her life. Knowing your tasks is very important for this will serve as your guide in doing things that are expected of you. Now, please reflect to the following questions below: a. What are your tasks at home? b. At school? c. At the community? You can reserve your answers as you explore this 3rd wave of knowing more of yourself.
- 6. What’s New Activity1: BEFORE AND NOW… The objective of this activity is to help you discover what life was before and compare it with your present life as a teenager. By uncovering the differences, you may be able to understand how generations evolve and be able to describe the characteristics of the modern generations. Your answers may be based from their life style, courting style, playing, studying and others. Write your answers below .
- 7. The Developmental Tasks in Adolescence According to Robert Havighurst, the developmental tasks during adolescence are as follows: 1. Achieving new and more mature relations with age mates of both sexes 2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role 3. Accepting one’s physique and using one’s body effectively 4. Achieving emotional independence from parents and other adults 5. Preparing for marriage and family life 6. Preparing for economic career 7. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior- developing ideology 8. Desiring, accepting, and achieving socially responsible behavior. These developmental tasks are mastered by teenagers in a sequential order, following three stages in the adolescence period, namely: early adolescence, middle adolescence, and late adolescence (Kimmel and Weiner, 1995).
- 8. ✓ Early Adolescence (this happens when you are 12-13 years old) At this stage you may experience rapid growth and various changes. Your primary developmental tasks at this stage involves the following: ▪ Adapting to biological and mental development ▪ Accept one’s physique and use one’s body effectively ▪ Embrace the fact that you are physically maturing already and know how to take care of your body ▪ Already sexually capable of reproduction ▪ You need to be comfortable with the way you look.
- 9. ✓ Middle Adolescence (this occurs around 14-16 years old) Your primary tasks as a teenager in this period are as follows: ▪ Achieving new and more mature relations with age mates of both sexes ▪ Achieving a masculine or feminine social role ▪ Achieving emotional independence from parents and other adults ▪ Becoming more adept in social settings and more capable of establishing intimate relationship ▪ Attraction that you feel to another person- learning to handle heterosexual relationships, dating, and sexuality.
- 10. ✓ Late Adolescence This starts when you are 17 years old until you have shown a sense of consistency in your personal identity in relation to people around you, and you have begun to form some fairly definite social roles, value systems, and life goals (Kimmel and Weiner, 1995). The tasks expected of you at this stage are the following: 1.Already formed attitudes, learned skills, and established relationships that will give you bases of ascertaining what kind of a person you are or what kind of life you want to lead. 2. Focused on planning and preparing for marriage and family life, preparing for an economic career, on acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior or ideology, and on desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior.
- 11. It is true that growing up has never been easy and adolescence is full of challenges because it is a stage of “becoming” rather than of “being”. You need to work hard to master these developmental tasks and the challenge is to maintain a positive attitude towards those responsibilities that you will be taking into. Do not take it as a difficult task but rather take it as an opportunity for you to grow. What is important is you are learning in each task, improve the things that are not well done, and embrace the things undone.
- 12. Adolescents in the 21st Century Your parents and grandparents lived in a world characterized by a culture of hard work. To illustrate further this said culture, imagine how your parents or grandparents cook for food before, the ways and preparations in cooking is never easy since there was no stove available. Imagine cooking before with a long process from getting woods to producing heat. Unlike today, where there are available stove, oven or butane for easy cooking process. You also have instant noodles, instant coffee mix, and instant sauces. More so, you have fast food outlets, computers, gadgets, internet, e-books, and among others that make things easier and more convenient and accessible.
- 13. Another observation in today’s generation is in the courtship style. Unlike before that there was harana, the boys will really go to the house of the girl to ask permission from the parents to allow the boy to court the girl. Now, because of the onset of telecommunication, it seems that courtship is done instantly, and virtual relationship come into existence. Having a relationship through text or computer is now embraced by the new generation. Hence, the culture of instant result in today’s generation is visible.
- 14. In addition, materialism characterizes the youth of today. How do you react when you see your classmate having the latest gadget, having a new pair of branded shoes, bag, or apparel? Are you not admiring that person? Are you not envious of him or her? Do you also wish that hopefully you have those things as well? These material possessions become status symbols for adolescents nowadays.
- 15. According to Hurlock (1982), status symbol are prestige symbols that tell others that the owner is of higher status (e.g., in socioeconomic and in achievements) than other people. These symbols become the bases of their security, of being accepted, and of their personality. However, being materialistic results in prioritizing image rather than working on one’s inner beauty and holistic value as a person. That is one thing that teenagers should be extra careful because they might be too materialistic and forget self- respect self- value.
- 16. Taking charge or assuming responsibility is the ability to choose your own responses (Convey, 2004) to encountered circumstances. This means that you are responsible and accountable of your behavior, without making excuses or blaming others for your mistakes. Successful people take full responsibility of their actions. They take charge to realize their goals, act with motivation and determination, and correct their mistakes to stay on track of their goals. Now, listen to this call for responsibility! Start looking yourself and work on the following building blocks of responsibility by Feiden (1991):
- 17. 1. A strong sense of self-esteem. The most important building block of responsibility is high self-esteem, which should be a positive belief in oneself. 2. The capacity for empathy. The ability to put oneself in another’s shoes so that you understand what he/she is going through. 3. Knowing right from wrong. Taking accountability of your actions means facing the consequences of your actions. 4. Developing good judgement. Ability to make good decisions make you rooted to integrity and strong personal values.
- 18. What’s More Activity 2: MY PERSONAL TIMELINE A personal timeline portrays the influential events and happenings of a person’s life so that he can understand where he has gone wrong and right in the past. It helps to plan the future in a better constructive way. Using a bond paper, write the major events in your life and the significant people in your life. You may add your age, specific dates and places. You may draw the timeline horizontally, vertically, diagonally or even using ups and down depending on your imagination. Be creative in your representations. You may also use symbols, figures and drawings. Think of a title for your personal timeline. You may use crayons or art materials depending on the available resources or just a simple paper and pen may be fine. You can also go for the personal timeline website template samples available online. The link is https://www.template.net/business/timeline-templates/personal-timeline-template/
- 19. What I have Learned Activity 3: MY SELF-ASSESSMENT Complete the table below to assess your own level of development as a senior high school student. Source: DepEd Personal Development Module page 20 What are the expected tasks you have successfully accomplished? What are the expected tasks you have partially accomplished? What are the expected tasks you have not accomplished? Write at least three (3) tasks…
- 20. What I can Do Activity 4: REFLECTION UPON 1. As a teenager today, what makes your generation different from the generation of your parents? 2. How do you feel about those differences? 3. As a teenager, what would you do to reconcile the gap between your generation and the older generation? Use graphic organizer for your answer in # 1-3.
- 21. II. Write YES if the statement is correct and NO if the statement is incorrect. 11. Growing up is just very easy. 12.The older generations lived in a world characterized by a culture of instant results. 13.You need the support of significant persons in your life to self-reliant and independent. 14. Achieving new and more mature relations with age mates of both sexes is a developmental task in the late adolescence. 15. Materialism are prestige symbols that tell others that the owner is of higher status than other people according to Hurlock.
- 22. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Great Senior High Students you are almost done with module 3. Using your journal, answer the following questions: 1. Name one (1) challenge you have encountered in growing up as a teenager. 2. How do you cope with that challenge?