COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
EXPLORING UNITY IN
DIVERSITY
Homeroom Class
Introductory Message
For the Student:
In your everyday interaction, you may have observed similarities and
differences with the people around you. You may have seen differences in physical
appearance, preferences, abilities, skills, and behavior. Each person’s intelligence,
personality traits, and values differ from one another. These aspects define each
person's individuality.
As a college student, personal and social skills will help you in developing
healthy behavior and positive relationships. This module will help you gain better
understanding about your role in promoting respect for individual differences and
valuing others.
This self-learning module has six interactive tasks, which are as follows:
Let’s Try This – which will help you to get ready to learn;
Let’s Explore This – which will guide you towards what you need to learn;
Keep in Mind – which will give you the lessons that you need to learn and understand;
You Can Do It – which will help you apply the lessons learned in daily activities;
What I Have learned – which will test and evaluate your learning; and
Share Your Thoughts and Feelings – which will help you express your thoughts,
opinions and feelings.
Make sure to read, think, follow, and enjoy every task that you are asked to do.
Have fun! Stay safe and healthy!
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Learning Objectives
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. determine the basic aspects of an individual;
2. demonstrate suggested ways in accepting others;
3. formulate home/school policies that promote respect for individual differences;
and
4. appreciate actions or behaviors that accept individual differences.
Period: Weeks 2 and 3
Suggested Total Time Allotment: 120 Minutes
Materials Needed: Clean sheet of paper, bond paper, pen, and coloring materials
Week 2
Introduction
In this module, you will have a better understanding about your role in
promoting respect for individual differences. This aims to give you an opportunity to
view other’s perspectives and feelings. Accepting attitude and openness to other’s
unique characteristics will help you to have healthy relationships.
Let us explore everyone’s uniqueness in diversity!
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Let’s Try This
Suggested Time Allotment: 20 Minutes
Observation of Other’s Uniqueness
1. Copy the following table on a clean sheet of paper.
2. Think of three (3) different persons who are similar in a certain aspect that
you would like to observe for this activity. Example: 3 famous personalities
(singers, dancers, inventors, politicians, artists).
3. Write their names and describe them using the options in each column. Use
your best judgment on them.
4. Write your answers to the processing questions after.
Description
Planner or
Persons Lively or Nurturing or Conservative Thinker or
easy-go-
Reserved? disciplinarian? or liberated? doer?
lucky?
Name:
Name:
Name:
Processing Questions:
1. Were you able to fill out all related descriptions for each person? Which of the
descriptions is the most observable?
2. What is the most difficult description to observe? Explain.
3. What can you say about the differences that you observed among these three
persons?
Let’s Explore This
Suggested Time Allotment: 20 minutes
Showing Support for Others
Copy the following table on a sheet of paper. How will you support others in the given
situations? Write your answer in each column.
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Situation Physically Emotionally Socially Spiritually
1. A new classmate with a
physical disability
2. A friend who lost his parents
due to accident
3. A neighbor who chose to stop
schooling for employment
4. A sibling who spends most of
his/her time playing online
games
5. A friend who plans to leave
their house because of a family
problem
6. A new group member who
loses hope because of many
problems
7. A cousin from an ethnic group
who is still adjusting to her
new school
8. A relative who is confused with
his gender preference
9. A classmate who experiences
social discrimination due to his
poor academic performance
10. An older sibling who needs
help on time management
Processing Questions:
1. What do you notice with your answers?
2. Which of the situations is the most difficult to handle or manage? Explain.
3. What type of support or help is the easiest to provide? Explain.
4. What have you realized after doing this activity?
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Keep in Mind
Suggested Time Allotment: 20 minutes
In dealing with others, we must recognize that we are all different from one
another. Though we may have similarities in terms of preferences, taste, physical
appearance, style and many more, we still have our distinctions and uniqueness
which make us special in different ways.
Our individuality comes with our unique attributes and characteristics. Some
can easily be seen physically while some can be manifested through actions and
behavior which may indicate values and personalities.
There is harmony in diversity and we can all keep it that way if we learn to
accept one another as we are.
There are healthy ways to deal with our individual differences which would
work for everyone’s advantage. Here are some:
a. Accept that we are all different. Don’t assume that your preferences would
always be the same as those of your peers or friends. Of course there are similarities
among you but all have different stories to tell that affect the way you see things. You
may have different beliefs, culture, values, and even interest, and you cannot force
anybody to be exactly the same as you. Remember, even twins have differences.
b. Use your similarities with other people to strike a harmonious relationship
with them. While you acknowledge that people are different from another, there are
also commonalities which you may take advantage to establish positive relationship
with them. At this point in time, you might have found the right people who can be
your good friends, who can inspire you to strive harder, and who can be your role
model.
c. Be open-minded with others. You can always learn from the experiences of your
friends and peers and they can also do the same with you. The manner they
overcome life challenges and how they impact their living could be your insights to
improve your lifestyle or even the way you see things around you. You can also learn
from their culture, traditions and values.
d. Try to consider where others are coming from. Your family set-up may be
different from what your friends have. People might have grown up in a province or
in a highly urbanized city. There are those who have a complete set of parents and
those that have a single parent or no parents at all. Additionally, people have
different childhood experiences which greatly affect their attitude and personality
now. There are also those who struggle financially and those who are well off. Keep
in mind that people are coming from different backgrounds and they act, decide and
make choices based on those things.
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e. If your differences with others are getting in the way, try to have a common
ground. You cannot impose your beliefs, values and culture to others, the same way
that they cannot do that to you. However, instead of trying to prove who’s better and
who’s not, you may want to find an area where you can both improve yourself while
learning from each other. There are differences that are worthy to talk and celebrate,
and there are those that we just accept unconditionally just like in the second item.
There’s no point in comparing people as each of us have our own potentials and
abilities.
Always remember that you co-exist with others. There are things that you cannot
control like the people around you but you can always manage the way you deal with
them. The choice is always with you, either you make the most out of those
individual differences and have a happy life or you make that as your limitations.
Week 3
You Can Do It
Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes
“I Care” Policies
Copy the table below on a separate sheet of paper. Write at least five policies
at home, in school, in the community or online that you personally do to respect
individual differences. Answer the processing questions after.
HOME SCHOOL COMMUNITY ONLINE
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Processing Questions:
1. How do you compare your answers in each column?
2. Given the current situation, how do you intend to practice them?
3. What made you practice such ways to respect individual differences and care
for others?
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What I have Learned
Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes
Write a 3- to 5-paragraph essay that answers the
question below on a sheet of paper.
How should we celebrate our
Unity in diversity?
Share your Thoughts & Feelings
Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes
Create a slogan or poster on unconditional acceptance of others and
respect for individual differences. You may post it online or physically
in the most noticeable area at home. Use a short bond paper and
coloring materials.
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