One class period.
This activity helps students become more aware of the positive qualities they exhibit to other people.
IIc1: Students will understand how self-assessment, including appraisal of strengths, interests and needs, can lead to identification of possible career choices.
IIIc4: Students will understand that a positive attitude toward work and learning is directly related to achievement of one's goals in life.
Legal size or large white paper, markers or crayons, tape, pencil.
Talk with students about strengths and weaknesses. Emphasize that everyone has unique qualities. No one person can be good at everything. Tell students that each of them have a set of good qualities.
Give each student a piece of large white paper. With the paper turned vertically, have students write or draw pictures of some of their strengths on the top half of the paper. You may have to give students an example (e.g., draw a basketball if you're good at sports, a comb if you're good at fixing hair, etc.)
After students finish, ask them if this was difficult. Relate how some people have a hard time recognizing their good qualities. Sometimes, other people can recognize their good qualities better than they can.
Have students bread into pairs. Have each person in the pair tape the piece of paper on the back of the other student. Then have students write positive statements on the back of each student. This can be done by the entire class until everyone has a sheet on their back with positive statements written by every other student.
At the end of the activity, have students pull the paper from their back and read the positive statements. Tell students these are "Positive Attitude Terms" (or P.A.T) and tell students they are getting a "P.A.T. on the back". Discuss the statements the students received.