💛 SELGrade 3Lesson 2
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Identify Personal Strengths

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What you will learn

  • 1Identify personal strengths across different categories
  • 2Tell the difference between things you do well now and things you are still growing in
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Mini Lesson

A strength is something you do well — a skill, a quality, or a habit that comes naturally to you or that you have practiced and built up. Everyone has strengths, and everyone has areas they are still growing in. Both are normal and both are valuable.

Types of personal strengths

  • Academic strengths — reading fast, solving math problems, remembering facts.
  • Social strengths — making friends easily, listening well, helping others.
  • Creative strengths — drawing, telling stories, building or designing things.
  • Character strengths — being kind, honest, patient, or determined.

"Still growing" is not a weakness

  • Something you are still growing in is a skill or quality you have not mastered yet — but you can, with effort and practice.
  • Recognizing what you are still growing in helps you set goals and ask for help.
  • Growth mindset says: "I can't do it yet — but I will."

How to spot your strengths

  • What do people thank you for or compliment you on?
  • What activities make time fly by because you enjoy them so much?
  • What have you worked hard at and improved in?

Words to know

Strength

Something you do well or a quality you have

e.g. Listening is one of my strengths.

Skill

Something you have learned to do through practice

e.g. Drawing is a skill I keep building.

Character strength

A good quality such as kindness, honesty, or patience

e.g. Honesty is a character strength.

Still growing

Something you are working on and not yet mastered

e.g. Math is an area where I am still growing.

Growth mindset

The belief that you can get better at things with effort

e.g. Growth mindset helps me try again.

Four types of personal strengthsFour colored quadrants around a central My Strengths label: Academic (top left), Social (top right), Creative (bottom right), and Character (bottom left).Four Types of Personal StrengthsAcademicreading, math,remembering factsSociallistening, helping,making friendsCharacterkind, honest,patient, determinedCreativedrawing, building,storytellingMyStrengths
Four quadrants of personal strengths — Academic, Social, Character, and Creative — surrounding a "My Strengths" center.
Strength versus still growing comparisonTwo columns side by side. Left column labeled My Strength lists: comes naturally, feel confident, help others with it. Right column labeled Still Growing lists: takes effort, need practice, can improve with help.Strength vs. Still GrowingMy Strengthcomes naturallyfeel confidentcan help othersenjoy doing ite.g. "I am goodat listening."Still Growingtakes more effortneed more practicecan ask for helpwill improve in timee.g. "I am stillgrowing at math."
Two columns comparing "My Strength" (comes naturally, feel confident) with "Still Growing" (takes effort, need practice, can improve).
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Self-check: Can you name one strength you have right now and one area you are still growing in?

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