Self Recognition

1. SELF
RECOGNITION

2. MEANS
…
1. Having the ability to understand your thoughts,
emotions, and values, as well as knowing how those
factors influence your behavior;
2. Added to this understanding is the capacity to open-
mindedly and realistically assess your strengths and
weaknesses while maintaining your confidence, drive,
and desire to grow.

3. To be Self Recognition,
YOU must be able to:
1. Identify your emotions.
 You need to be able to identify
your feelings;
 Learning the difference
between frustration and anger
will help you navigate your
emotions;
 By recognizing the link between
your feelings, thoughts, and
actions, they can then address
these feelings and react to
them appropriately.

4. 2.See yourself honestly
Trying to look at yourself honestly can help you respond to
compliments, feedback, and criticism openly and earnestly. This
sense of self will teach you to see and acknowledge both the
positive and negative things in the nature.

5. 3. Recognize your strengths
and weaknesses
 Your ability to see yourself,
acknowledge your
shortcomings, and embrace
your strengths is a great
confidence booster.
 Knowing that it’s okay to
admit you’re wrong or you
don’t understand something
sets you up for growth.
Acknowledging aptitude also
builds confidence.

6. 4. Work toward growth
All of these skills lead you to
self-efficacy. You understand
that self-work and growth are
positive activities that result in
healthy, happy people with a
drive to achieve.

7. 5 Activities and Strategies for Teaching
Students to be Self Recognition
Here are some ideas for how to develop self-
recognition in students:
1.Positive Recognition
Have students write a list of the things they
like about themselves. If they need a nudge,
suggest something like “I am cheerful,” or “I
am creative.” Encourage older students to
dig a little deeper. Students should put this
list in a place where they’ll often see it to
reinforce the positives they see in
themselves.

8. 2.Discuss the Thoughts-Actions-Feelings Circle
Unique to Positive Action, the thoughts-actions-feelings circle is integral to our
social and emotional curriculum. It depicts how thoughts lead to actions and
actions to feelings, which lead once again to thoughts. Describe situations
your students might find themselves in. Discuss how those situations might
make them feel, how and what they might think, and how they might act
based on those thoughts and feelings.

9. 3. Keep an Emotional Journal
As students learn to identify and label their feelings, ask them to keep an
emotion journal. For younger students, this may mean pasting emoji faces,
while for older students, it might be a digital journal. Taking the time for a
daily “emotional assessment” allows your students to understand and
explore their emotions.

10. 4. Establish and Work Toward Goals
Meeting self-recognition goals and objectives gives students successes to
celebrate, fortifying their belief in themselves. Ask students to set a realistic
goal and write down steps they can take to meet those goals. You might even
consider making a class goal for students to strive for as the year
progresses;

11. 5. Use Your Strengths
Help students to identify their strengths. The act of identifying things that
your students are good at reinforces a positive self-image. Working to
improve their strengths builds confidence, setting them up for success.

12. Let’s
Discuss!