Vocab Definitions
This term means understanding your own thoughts, feelings, habits, strengths, and areas for growth.
What is self-awareness?
Being dependable when a team needs help is an example of this.
What is a strength, or shine?
Values help people make decisions by providing these.
What are principles or guidelines?
Self-awareness is important for leaders because it helps them understand this about their choices and behavior.
What is how their choices and behavior affect others?
Small, regular actions can help people make progress toward their goals. This explains why these are important.
What are habits?
These are the core beliefs and principles that guide your decisions and actions.
A skill or habit you want to improve is called this.
What is an area for growth, or stretch?
Name one example of a personal value.
Accept answers such as kindness, fairness, respect, honesty, responsibility, courage, cooperation, or inclusion.
The main purpose of creating a lifeline is to identify these.
What are meaningful experiences that have shaped who you are?
The role of an accountability partner is to do this.
What is support, encouragement, and help with staying responsible for goals?
This means looking back on experiences to learn, grow, and build self-trust.
What is reflection?
Name one example of a strength, or shine.
Accept answers such as being creative, dependable, encouraging others, listening carefully, or solving problems.
This is a short, personal statement describing who you are, what you value, and the impact you want to make.
What is a mission statement?
Explain one way that past experiences can shape who we are today.
Accept answers explaining that experiences can shape beliefs, skills, habits, relationships, or reactions. Students may also explain that successes build confidence or challenges teach lessons and build resilience.
Give one specific example of a helpful habit that could support personal development.
Accept answers such as reviewing assignments for ten minutes each evening, practicing a skill daily, using a planner, setting reminders, or reading for fifteen minutes.
This is a small, regular action you choose to help you grow and move closer to your goals.
Name one example of an area for growth, or stretch.
Accept answers such as planning ahead, completing tasks on time, asking for help, staying organized, or listening without interrupting.
If your values include kindness and fairness, and you see someone being excluded from a group, explain what decision would align with your values.
Accept answers that include inviting the person to join, speaking up respectfully, or helping others include the student.
You notice you often interrupt others during group discussions, and some members have stopped participating. Use self-awareness to explain what you could do.
Accept answers that include recognizing the behavior, pausing before speaking, listening carefully, inviting quieter members to share, or asking whether everyone has had a chance to contribute.
Reflection can build self-confidence because it helps people recognize these three things.
What are lessons learned, progress made, and challenges overcome?
This means inviting others to support and encourage you as you work toward your goals.
Explain why knowing both your strengths and areas for growth is important for leadership.
Accept answers explaining that strengths build confidence and show what a person can contribute, while knowing growth areas helps a person improve and become a better leader.
Explain why a personal mission statement can be important for making decisions.
Accept answers explaining that it guides choices, reminds a person of their values, helps them stay focused on goals, or describes the kind of person they want to be.
Explain how self-awareness can help someone become a better leader. Include at least two specific ways.
Accept answers explaining that self-aware leaders can make better decisions, respond thoughtfully, accept feedback, understand how their actions affect others, and recognize their strengths and areas for growth.
Explain how reflection can help build self-confidence. Include specific details.
Accept answers explaining that reflection helps people think about what happened and what they learned. Recognizing progress and overcoming challenges helps people trust themselves and feel more confident. Reflection can also help people make better choices in the future.