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Understanding Your Skills and Talents Lesson PlanUnderstanding Your Skills and Talents Lesson Plan
Publisher
Macmillan Education
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Grade
6th - Higher Ed
Subjects
Social & Emotional Learning
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Handouts & References
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2014
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Understanding Your Skills and Talents

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This Understanding Your Skills and Talents lesson plan also includes:
  • Know Yourself: Infographic
  • For Fun: Characteristics Crossword
  • For Fun: Talent Pool
  • Answer Key
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Skills, talents, and personal qualities are the focus of the fourth session in a 23-lesson series of life skills exercises. Participants build a mind map of all the skills and talents in the class, and then groups work together to identify the qualities that accompany these aspects.

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Concepts

Study Skills

Additional Tags

college and career readiness

Instructional Ideas

  • Project the provided images and have class members identify the skills, talents, and qualities represented by the photos

Classroom Considerations

  • The fourth in a series of sequential lessons
  • British spellings are used throughout the series

Pros

  • Participants are asked to identify their own skills, talents, and personal qualities and recognize those of others
  • Links to posters, games, and an answer key are provided

Cons

  • Some class members will need additional support to feel comfortable identifying their own skills and talents

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