1. Westport Middle School Advisory Lesson
Self-Awareness
Westport Middle School
Advisory Lesson

2. Icebreaker: Rip Up Your Stress
On a half-piece of paper, write down everything that is bothering you right now.
Examples:
Things that are making you angry
Things that are making you insecure
Things that are giving you anxiety
Afterwards, rip the paper up, crumple all the pieces into a ball, and throw it into the wastebasket.

3. Learning Target and Agenda
LT: I can reflect on my self-awareness.
Agenda:
Review emotional intelligence.
Define “self-awareness” and discuss why it is important to your emotional intelligence.
Short Video (link in PowerPoint)
Activity
Exit Slip

4. Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage our emotions.

5. Emotional Intelligence
Most people feel many different emotions throughout the day.
Some feelings (like surprise) last just a few seconds.
Others may stay longer, creating a mood like happiness or sadness.
Being able to notice and accurately label these everyday feelings is the most basic of all the EQ skills.

6. Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence consists of four basic capabilities.
These are:
Self-Awareness
Self-Regulation
Social Awareness
Relationship Management

7. Self-Awareness Self-awareness – the ability to recognize
your emotions and
know your strengths and
limits

8. Turn and Talk Look at the illustration to the right.
Turn and talk to an elbow partner about why lacking (not having) self-awareness could be a bad thing for the cat AND for people in general.

9. How well do you know yourself?
Video:
Discuss:
Were you surprised that all the results were the same?
Why do you think all the results seemed personal to each person?

10. Activity: I am… (and Am I Assertive?)
Complete the worksheets independently.
Choose one to three things you would like to share with the group.

11. Exit Ticket
Do you think you are self-aware?
Why or why not?