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Personal Development
Quarter 1
Module 4: The Challenges of Middle
and Late Adolescence
Personal Development
Quarter 1 : Module 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late
Adolescence

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Development Team of the Module

Writer: MABEL V. ABENOMAN

Editors: LEONOR V. BINAOHAN, MT1 / JOHN EDWARD B. ATIWAG, MT1

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Personal Development – Grade 11
Quarter I- Module 4:The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence
Physical, Identity/ Self-concept,
Emotional behavior, Social attitude, Peer
I. Introduction: relationships, Family relationships, Romantic
relationships, Sexual relationships, Decision-
making/Independence, Cognitive
development, Values/Morality, Regard for future/Career goals are the developmental challenges the
middle and late adolescents are facing. These challenges are a bit difficult for an adolescent alone to
face that’s why the help of our family is a big help to fully overcome it.

II. Objectives

1. Recognize that facing the challenges during adolescence, may able to clarify and
manage the demands of teens years ; (EsP-PD11/12CA-Id-4.1)
2. Express your feelings on the expectations of the significant people around you, such
as your parents, siblings, friends, teachers, community leaders; (EsP-PD11/12CA-
Id-4.2) and III. Vocabulary List
3. Make affirmations that help you become more lovable and capable as an adolescent.
(EsP-PD11/12CA-Id-4.3)

1. Adolescence – the period of life when a child develops into an adult.

2. Anxious – afraid or nervous especially about may happen: feeling anxiety,

3. Bolster – a long bag of cloth completely filled with soft material.

4. Connotation – the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or
describes.

5. Declaration – the act of making an official statement about something.

6. Audacity – a confident and daring quality that is often seen as shocking or rude.

7. Springtime – an early or flourishing stage of development.

8. Commemorate – to exist or to be done in order to remind people.

9. Anonymity – the quality or state of being unknown to most people.

10. Crowd – to fill ( something) so that there is little or no room for anyone or anything else.
 Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016

Britannica.com

IV. Pre-Test

Directions: Let’s gauge your prior knowledge about the Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence. Read
each questions or statement very carefully. Then answer. Write it in your notebook.

1. What is the process that starts in human infancy and continues into late adolescent concentrating
on gross and fine motor skills as well as puberty?

a. Physical Development c. Emotional Development

b. Social Development d. Mental Development

2. It is emergence of the experience, expression, understanding, and regulation of emotions from

birth and the growth and change in these?

a. Mental health c. Physical Development

b. Emotional Development d. Social Development

3. It is about improving the well-being of every individual in society so they can reach their full
potential.

a. Social Development c. Emotional Health

b. Mental Health d. Physical Development

4. It is a suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly name or describes.

a. Adolescence c. Anxious

b. Connotation d. Declaration
 5. It is the act of making an official statement about something.

a. Bolster c. Anxious

b. Adolescence d. Declaration

Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016

V-Learning Activities

Learning Activity 1. What’s on your mind?

As an initial activity, ask learners to express their understanding

about this quotations? Write it in your notebook.

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

Unsuccessful people are always asking: “What’s in it for me?”- Brian
Tracy

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Did you know…

THE PASSAGE TO ADULTHOOD: CHALLENGES OF LATE ADOLESCENCE

Physical Development

 Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age 15.
  Boys are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and are completing the
development of sexual traits.

Emotional Development

 May stress over school and test scores

 Is self-involved ( may have high expectations and low self-concept).

 Seeks privacy and seek alone.

 Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.

 May complain that parents that prevent him on her from doing things independently.

 Start to want both physical and emotional intimacy in relationships.

 Experiences of intimate relationships.

Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016

Social Development

 Shifts in relationship with parents from dependency and subordination to one that reflects the
adolescent’s increasing maturity and responsibilities in the family and the community,

 Is more and more aware of social behavior of friends.

 Seek friends that share the same beliefs, values, and interests.

 Friends become more important.

 Start to have more intellectual interests.

 Explores romantic and sexual behaviors with others.

 May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, sex)

Mental Development

 Becomes better to able to set goals and think in terms of the future.

 Has a better understanding of complex problem and issues.

 Starts to develop moral ideas and select roles models.

Reading: ENCOURAGEMENT 101; The Courage to Be Imperfect

By Temothy D. Evans, Ph.D

 Encouragement is the key ingredient for improving your relationships with others. It is the
single most important skill necessary for getting along with others- so important that the lack of it
could be considered the primary cause of conflict and misbehavior. Encouragement develops a person
a person’s psychological hardiness and social interest. Encouragement is the lifeblood of a
relationship. And yet, this simple concept is often very hard to put into practice.

Encouragement is not a new idea. Its spiritual connotation dates back to the Bible in Hebrews
3:11 which states “Encourage one another daily.” Encouragement, as a psychological idea, was
developed by psychiatrist Alfred Adler in the early 20 th century and continued to evolve through the
work of Adler’s follower Rudolph Dreikurs. However, even today, relatively few educators, parents,
psychologists, leaders of couples have utilized this valuable concept. Most of the time, people
mistakenly use a technique like praise in an effort to “encourage” others. Half the job encouragement
lies in avoiding discouraging words and actions. When children or adult misbehave, it is usually
because they are discouraged. Instead of building them up, we tear them down; instead of recognizing
their efforts and improvements, we point out mistakes; instead of allowing them to belong through
shared decision-making and meaningful contributions, we isolate and label them.

Most of us are skilled discouragers. We have learned how to bribe, reward and when that
fails, to punish, criticize, nag, threaten, interrogate and emotionally withdraw. We do this an attempt
to control those we love, bolstered by the mistaken belief that we are responsible for the behavior of
everyone around us, especially our spouses and children. These attempts to control behavior create
atmospheres of tension and conflict in many houses.

Most commonly, we discourage in five general ways:

 We set standards that are too high for others to meet because we are overly ambitious.

 We focus on mistakes as a way to motivate change or improved behavior.

Source: Personal Development

Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016

 We make constant comparisons (self to others, siblings to one another).

 We automatically give negative spin to the action of the others.

 We dominate others by being overly helpful, implying that they are unable to do it as well.

Encouragement is not a technique nor is it a special language used to gain

compliance. Encouragement conveys the idea that all human beings are worthwhile, simply
because they exist. In one sentence, Mr. Rogers does more a child’s sense of adequacy than a
hundred instances of praise when he says, “I like you just the way you are.” Not I like you
when you do it well enough, fast enough and get it all correct. Encouragement develops
children’s psychological hardiness—their ability to function and recover when things aren’t
going their way.
 Encouragement enhances a feeling of belonging which leads to greater social interest.
Social interest is the tendency for people to unite themselves with other human beings and to
accomplish their tasks in cooperation with others. The Junior League mission of “developing
the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and
leadership of trained volunteers” is rooted in the idea of social interest.

The first step to becoming an encouraging person is to learn to distinguish

encouragement from discouragement. As a rule, ask yourself: Whatever I say or do, will it
bring me closer

We all have the power to be more encouraging people. The choice, as always is yours.

Reading : THE POWER PERSONAL DECLARATIONS

by Dr. Emily De Carlo

So often we accept the declarations that other have made concerning our own lives, wellbeing
or fate. It is imperative that we recognize that in order to achieve what we want in life, we must not
give our power away to others by accepting their declarations concerning our affairs. When one
decides that he or she will boldly declare good fortune, wellness, joy, etc. relative to his in her life, all
of heaven will break loose! Goodness and mercy surely follow.

From birth, we are often told what we are going to be. Sometimes, this is good thing, but
suppose you have been told time and time again that “ you will not amount to anything just like your
mother and father”? This is dangerous declaration because it seats into motion the actualization of an
unwanted occurrence. All of us want to amount to something! In order to counteract this and all of the
negative declarations with their destructive potential, one must consciously replace with them with
one’s own declarations. In so doing, you are now in control of setting into action what you really
want to occur. You can declare that goodness and mercy shall surely follow all you all the days of you
follow all the days of your life.

Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016

The following of some declarations that you may want to make concerning of your life:
I declare:
That I am totally free from addictions,
That I will survive any attempts of other to control my life.
That I am free in my mind, body, and emotions.
That I am a loving individual with the capacity to give love.
That I am a child of God with all rights and privileges thereof.
That I will contribute to the welfare of the others.
That I will be an ambassador of goodwill to all I meet on the journey.
That I will be a good example for others to follow.
That I will help all that I can to reach their goals.
That I will speak words of encouragement to others.
That I will find the goodness in life and focus on it.
That I will not succumb to the negative influences of others.
That I will read the information that will encourage my personal,
And spiritual growth.
That I will commit to being the best I can be.

Learning Activity 2: Write it Down, Share what you’ve Learned!

Answer the following questions in your notebooks. Please be guided by the rubrics below.

1. What is declarations?
2. How does declaration works?
3. Whom declaration do you consider, yours, family or friends?
4. What do you think are the effects of not owning life’s declaration? What kind of person will
you be if you rely on other’s declaration?

Scoring Rubrics

Features 4 3 2 1

Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

Quality of Piece was Piece was written in Piece had little Piece had no style
writing written in an an interesting style style or voice or voice
extraordinary and voice
style and voice Give some new Gives no new
Somewhat information but information and
Very informative informative and poorly organized very poorly
and well organized organized
organized

Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,

Usage & spelling, punctuations, spelling, punctuation and
Mechanic punctuation or errors, minor punctuation or grammatical errors
grammatical grammatical errors grammatical errors that it interferes
errors with the meaning

Learning Activity 3: Think About it!

Directions: Read the scenario. Write your answer in your notebook. Please be guided by the rubrics
below.

Suppose you are in this situation, since you were in grade level you dream of becoming of
being successful visual artist. Your father who is engineer and mother a mother a lawyer want to
follow their track to be either a lawyer or an engineer. How would you deal with this situation? Are
you going to follow your desire or your parent’s declaration? Explain. Write it in your notebook.
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Scoring Rubrics

4 3 2 1
Features
Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

Quality of Piece was Piece was written in Piece had little Piece had no style
writing written in an an interesting style style or voice or voice
extraordinary and voice
style and voice Give some new Gives no new
Somewhat information but information and
Very informative informative and poorly organized very poorly
and well organized organized
organized

Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,

Usage & spelling, punctuations, spelling, punctuation and
Mechanic punctuation or errors, minor punctuation or grammatical errors
grammatical grammatical errors grammatical errors that it interferes
errors with the meaning

Reading: BEING HAPPY

You may have defects, be anxious and sometimes live irritated, but do not forget that your life
is the greatest enterprise of the world. Only you can prevent it from going into decadence. There are
many that need you, admire you and love you.
I would like to remind you that being happy is not having a sky without storms, or roads
without accidents, or work without fatigue, or relationships without disappointments.
Being happy is finding strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s battles, security at the stage of
fear, love in disagreements.
Being happy is not only to treasure a smile, but that you also reflect on the sadness. It is not
just commemorating the event, but also learning lessons in failures. It is not just having joy with the
applause, but also having a joy in anonymity.
Being happy is to recognize that is worthwhile to live, despite all the challenges,
misunderstandings and times of crises.
Bing happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory for those who travel towards it with your own being.
Being happy is to stop being a victim of problems but become an actor in history itself. I f is
only to cross the desserts outside of our selves, but still more, to be able to find an oasis in the
recesses of our soul. It is to thank God every morning for the miracle of life.
 Being happy is not being afraid of one’s feelings. It is to know how to talk about ourselves. It
is bear with courage when hearing a “no”. It is to have the security to receive criticism, even it is
unfair. It is to kiss the children, pamper the parents, and have poetic moments with friends, even if
they hurt us.
Being happy means allowing the free, happy and simple child inside each of us to live;
having maturity to say, “forgive me”. It is to have a sensitivity in expressing, “I need you”; to have the
ability to saying, “I love you.” So that your life becomes a garden full of opportunities for being
happy…
In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In your winter, may you become a friend
of wisdom. And when you go wrong along the way, you start all over again. Thus you will be more
passionate about life. And you will find that happiness is not about having a perfect life but about
using tears to water tolerance, losses to refine patience, failures to carve serenity, pain to lapidate
pleasure, obstacle to open the windows of intelligence.
Never give up…Never up on the people you love. Never give up from being happy because
life is an incredible show. And you are a special human being!

VI-Practice Tasks:

Practice Task 1: Write Slogan or Personal Declaration on Being Happy

Just write your output in your data notebook. Please be guided by the rubrics below.

Rubric for Rating the Slogan Making

CRITERIA 4 3 2 1

The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is The slogan is

Craftmanship
exceptionally attractive in acceptably distractingly
 attractive in terms of Well attractive though messy.
terms of constructed and it maybe a bit
neatness. Well not very messy. messy
constructed and
not messy.
Slogan is Slogan is creative Slogan is creative The slogan does
Creativity
exceptionally and a good and some thought not reflect any
creative. A lot of amount of was put into degree of
thought and thought was put creativity.
effort was used to into decorating it.
make the banner.
Exceptional use Good use of new Average use of No use of new
Originality
of new ideas and ideas and new ideas and ideas and
originality to originality to originality to originality to
create slogan. create slogan. create slog create slogan.

Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016.

Practice Task 2: Let us check what you have realized in the previous
activities by answering the next questions.

Directions: Read the questions. Write your answer in your data notebook. Please be guided by the
rubrics below.

1. Is happiness is a goal?
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2. Does your happiness change your outlook in life?
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3. What affect your level of happiness?

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Scoring Rubrics

4 3 2 1
Features Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner
Piece was Piece was written in Piece had little Piece had no style
Quality of
written in an an interesting style style or voice or voice
writing
extraordinary and voice
Give some new Gives no new
style and voice
Somewhat information but information and
Very informative informative and poorly organized very poorly
and well organized organized
organized
Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,
Grammar,
spelling, punctuations, spelling, punctuation and
Usage &
punctuation or errors, minor punctuation or grammatical errors
Mechanic
grammatical grammatical errors grammatical errors that it interferes
errors with the meaning

Practice Task 3
Directions: Read the questions. Write your answer in your data notebook.

1. How will you describe the physical changes in your body during puberty?
2. How do you control your emotions?
3. How will you compare your social relationship during your middle childhood and
adolescence life?
4. Do you think it is easy for you to solve problem right now that you are in young adulthood
than when you are in adolescence? Why?
5. As a student how will you manage the different changes in your life?

Source: Personal Development Reader First edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez, RCG et.al, 2016.

VII- Post Test:

Direction: Identify the following challenges of late adolescence. Write P for physical
development, E for emotional development, S for social development and M
for mental development. Write your answer in your date notebook.

1. Most girls have completed the physical changes related to the puberty
by age 15.
2. May stress over school and test scores.
3. The experience of intimate partnership.
4. Is concerned about physical and sexual attractiveness.
5. Becomes better able to set goals and think terms of the future.
6. Starts develop moral ideals and no select role models.
7. Friends become more important.
8. Start to have more intellectual interest.
9. Has a better understanding of complex problems and issue.
10. May be influenced by peers to try risky behaviors ( alcohol, tobacco, sex )

VIII- Additional Activities:

THINK!
SHARE!
REFLECT
!
Essay Writing

Directions: Read the questions. Answer it in your data notebook. Please be guided by the
rubrics below.

1. What are the challenges faced by the adolescence?

 2. How do you face the challenges of adolescent years?

IX- ANSWER KEY:

IV. Pre-Test
1. a. Physical Development
2. b. Emotional Development
3. a. Social Development
4. b. connotation
5. d. Declaration
V. Learning activities
Learning Activity 1: What’s on your mind?
(The answer may vary. Rubrics is provided for objective scoring.)
“ It is very important for you to note that challenges are part and parcel of life.
At the end of the day, success is not determined by how many times you make mistakes
rather you put emphasis on times you learn from those mistakes. As you go older expectation
both from inside and out compel you to make decisions in life.
Decision making is indeed the working of an adult person.

Learning Activity 2: Write it Down, Share what You’ve Learned

(The answer may vary. Rubrics is provided for objective scoring.)
1. Declaration is an act of declaring or proclaiming something, someone, or others. It is
also a kind of obligation, promise, or judgement given to himself or by others.
For example: The group of people proclaimed him as their new leader. I will not
follow to his footstep.
2. The declaration works when someone accept and apply it to himself.
3. It depends upon the kind of declaration is. Foe me, I should to consider my own
declaration rather than others declaration (family or friends) because I know who I am
and what I want to be and one can dictate it to me.
4. I think the effects of not owning life’s declaration are the following:
a. You are always depending other’s
b. You are always thinking or considering the social expectation.
c. You are pretending to be happy.
d. You cannot decide by your own.
 Now, if you are always relying the other’s declaration, I can say that you are a weak
person.
Learning Activity 3: Think About it!
(The answer may vary. Rubrics is provided for objective scoring.)
Becoming of the person you wanted to be in life is a big achievement, one could ever
dream of. It is a fulfillment of a lifetime dream. Being in the said situation above, I would
prefer to still choose the career I dream of. Having a talk with my parents will be one of the
best way to share to them what my heart desires. In that way they will be able to understand
my part and maybe discover my potential to the field I will be choosing.
Choosing a career is not about other’s choice or opinion. Its about taking what you
wanted and what you love to do.
Practice Task 1: Write slogan or personal Declaration on Being Happy
(The answer may vary. Rubrics is provided for objective scoring.)
“ HAPPINESS is enjoying the moment for what is it,
Not what it could be or should be.”

Practice Task 2: Let us check what you have realized in the previous activities by answering
the next questions.
(The answer may vary. Rubrics is provided for objective scoring.)
1. For me, happiness cant’t be a goal itself. Therefore, it’s not something that’s
achievable. I believe that the happiness is merely a byproduct of usefulness.
2. They always have a positive outlook on life. They seem to enjoy things more than you
and me, and their relationships with people thrive in a way that we only imagine.
3. Happiness in a mental health ,includes positive emotions such as joy, peace, a sense of
involvement and enthusiasm in life. Gender, income, married, status, education level,
the job satisfaction and increase knowledge are the main effective factors on human
happiness.

Practice Task 3
The answers may vary.
1. Most girls have completed the physical changes related to puberty by age 15. Boys
are still maturing and gaining strength, muscle mass, and height and are completing
the development of sexual traits.
2. Breathing exercise, self-meditation, talk to someone, pray.
3. During my middle childhood stage, I learned to get along with my age mate and in my
adolescence stage, my priorities will be the preparation for my economic career.
4. Yes, because I can solve a simple problem in my own without the help of anyone.
5. Awareness, acceptance and acquiring knowledge about the changes.
Post Test
1. P
2. E
3. E
4. E
5. M
6. M
7. S
8. S
9. S
10. S
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books:

A. DepEd Division of Camarines Norte DLP, PDG11S1W4D1

B. Personal Development Reader First Edition by Dr Barbara Wong- Fernandez,
RGC et.al, 2016

Documents from websites:

Anabelle Montevirgen, The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence,
https://www.slideshare.net/Develpmental%20Stages%20in%20middle%20and%20late%20Adolescence

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