Title: Identify factors that affect identity, personality, and future orientation.
Course: Individual Development (19260-36) > Section: Exploring Personal Development

Identification should include

- describing the effects of an individual’s social and physical environment (i.e., risk and protective factors)
- describing how self-awareness influences individual development (e.g., strengths and weaknesses of personality types, methods for working collaboratively with different personality types, recognizing personal triggers)
- describing areas affected by future orientation (e.g., internal source, unique talents, positive focus, personal integrity, humanness, culture, gender identity, gender expression, disabilities, mental health), and social pressures
- listing situations that have positive and negative influences on one’s view of self (physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional) and others.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How do peers affect an individual and how he/she develops?
- How might a lack of accommodations affect the future orientation of an individual with a disability (e.g., physical, developmental)? An English language learner?
- What accommodations should be provided to ensure all students are accommodated in the classroom? What technology tools can help make accommodations?

Communication

- What can a person’s method of communication reveal about their individual characteristics?
- How can a person’s social environment affect communication skills?
- How can children with poor communication skills become more effective communicators?
- Why is sign language still vital to communication, even when there are technology tools to aid in communication?

Leadership

- From what environments do leaders typically emerge?
- What individual characteristics are best for leaders?
- How have minority leaders overcome traditional biases?

Management

- What effect do personal organizational skills have on happiness?
- How can a person determine if they are properly managing their behavior?
- How can long-range planning that balances physical and mental activities improve personal development?