Developing Your Brain Power: Unlocking Your Potential, Schemes and Mind Maps of Personality Development

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PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Grade 12

Remember the KNOW Rules:

1. K = Keep quite.
2. N = No loafing. No celphone and no littering.
3. O = Open all ears and eyes to focused on the lesson.
4. W =When in class remember to sit properly.

TRAIN TO BE SMART, DUMP BEING DUMB

At the end of the lesson you are able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the brain parts, its processes and functions.
2. Identify ways to improved brain functions which will be manifested in thoughts, behavior and feelings.
3. Develop a personal plan to improved brain functions.
4. Value the significance of developing a personal plan to improved brain functions.

 (^) What can you say about your giftedness as shown from the chart above? = Remember your gift, your innate abilities may served as the foundation of your success.  (^) Were there new discoveries and/or realizations after doing this activity? = Every gift have different abilities in which we are excellent. We have different ways to absorb information and solve problems to create products that are of value.  (^) If you will be given the chance to further improve that gift, how will you do it?

My Giftedness as My Intelligence:

 Howard Gardner: Multiple intelligence

 (^) The focus of this lesson is for you to further appreciate that your intelligence (in various forms) can still be grown.  (^) let us dump the idea that people are born either intelligent, average, or dump – and stays the same throughout their lifetime. THE GROWING INTELLIGENCE:  (^) Intelligence is not a physical aspect of the mind, rather it is part of mind’s functions which is not necessarily dependent upon the size of the Human Brain. Real questions at hand are:  (^) can you really make yourself smarter?  (^) What do studies say about this?  (^) What are the different ways to do so?  (^) Is it achievable?

2 Major Perspective of Human Intelligence:

Growth and Fixed Mindset

FIXED MINSET GROWTH MINDSET

Avoid challenges. View Challenges as opportunities. Refuse to receive criticism or feedback. Embrace constructive feedback. Focus on proving yourself. Focus on the process not the end result. Feel threatened by others success Be inspired by others success Can’t accept failures or mistakes. Learn and grow from failures. Stay away from unfamiliar things. Always step out of the comfort zone. Believe that talent is static. Believed that talent can be improved.

Ways to train the brain and get

smarter.

 (^) The basic concept about brain development is that it grows when it is stimulated by the environment. Stimulation happens when our senses are activated, and we become aware of the things happening around us. By processing the information from our world, we question things and we acquire answers to question.  (^) When questions are answered, this brings us to further questioning and further chance to improved our learning.

Concrete Ways to Improve One’s Intelligence

1. Read Books, and Read a Lot. 11. Have a Regular Workout
2. Use Filtered News Services 12. Allow Yourself to Daydream
3. Hang Out with Smart people 13. Socialize
4. Aim to do something new everyday 14. Draw, Paint, or Color
5. Play Board games 15. Travel as Often as You can
6. Make a list of the things you have done
7. Learn a New Language
8. Explain What you Know to Others
9. Practice Mindfulness 10.Write Your Notes by Hand

 (^) Differentiate fixed and growth mindset? = Fixed mindset believed that intelligent and talent are fixed while growth mindset believed that intelligence and talent can be developed.  (^) Based on your initial assessment of your own point of view about intelligence in which side do you belong? why?  (^) What are your discoveries about human intelligence? How do you feel about this discoveries? = human intelligence can be develop specially if you are exposed in an appropriate environment and enough stimulation. = By embracing the growth mindset and believing that the intelligence can be grown, we can conclude that your intelligence can be develop as well.

Road to Becoming Smarter

 (^) Directions : Provided below is a sample road map. You customize your road map depending on the number of ways you have chosen above. Plot the different ways as to what comes first and what comes last. Also, provide specific details and timeframe when would you like to achieve all of these.

Concrete Ways to Improve One’s Intelligence

1. Read Books, and Read a Lot. 11. Have a Regular Workout
2. Use Filtered News Services 12. Allow Yourself to Daydream
3. Hang Out with Smart people 13. Socialize
4. Aim to do something new everyday 14. Draw, Paint, or Color
5. Play Board games 15. Travel as Often as You can
6. Make a list of the things you have done
7. Learn a New Language
8. Explain What you Know to Others
9. Practice Mindfulness 10.Write Your Notes by Hand