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Few days back, our son Kanishk, a 9th grader, yes officially a teenager :) brought home a bunch of papers from school as part of his assignment. The assignment is called MY PROFILE.
Both of us Sonia and me, as parents were intrigued and happy to see this assignment on Self-Awareness and Self-Introspection. I am sure, like us, so many of you would also agree one of the finest quality is Clarity. Unfortunately, in today's 24/7 competitive world not enough importance is given to inculcate and practice the habit of Self-Awareness and Self-Introspection.
This is a short blog, in which I am basically transcribing the Self-reflective Questions asked in MY PROFILE. The idea behind this blog is to share this template, so that if you are a parent or a guardian or an adult invested in teaching/mentoring/guiding youngsters, you can make use of them.
SELF-REFLECTION - PERIODIC TESTS
Q. How statisfied are you with the score in your periodic tests?
Q. When did you start preparing for these exams - months before or a week before or a day before?
Q. Approximately how many hours do you spend in a day studying before exams?
Q. If you ran out of time, what could you do in the next exam to increase your speed in the next exam? (Memorize more, practice writing more or pace yourself better).
Q. Have you reviewed each question to see why you got each one right or wrong?
Q. How can you learn from the mistakes you made in these exams?
Q. What active study strategies do you want to start incorporating?
SELF-REFLECTION ON ART INTEGRATED PROJECT ACTIVITIES ON EK BHARAT SHRESTHA BHARAT
Q. How much did you know about the topics before you started?
Q. What problems did you encounter while you were working on the projects? How did you solve them?
Q. What resources did you use while working on them? Which ones were especially helpful?
Q. What were your goals for completing the projects? Did your goals change as you worked on it?
Q. What did you learn about yourself as you worked to complete the projects?
Q. What would you change if you had a change to redo the projects?
SELF-REFLECTION - WHO AM I?
Q. My favourite way to spend the day is...
Q. If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is...
Q. Any five things that make me smile...
Q. Five people in my life who have genuinely supported me and whom I can genuinely trust...
Q. I really wish others knew this about me...
Q. One instance when I've supported a friend in a compassionate way recently....
Q. One thing/thought that always brings tears to my eyes....
Q. Ten words to describe myself....
Q. What have I learnt from my biggest mistake....
Q. I feel most energized when....
Q. What inspires me the most - books, quotes, people, paintings, music, stars in the sky or...Why?
Q. One thing I have overcome in my life....
Hoping you too found it intriguing, felt good about it and you can make use of this template to help a young mind to reflect, introspect and raise their self-awareness.
You should be calling this a ready reckoner or a cheat sheet. The questions are well thought out. One which I keep asking myself so many times is "If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is.."
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