ARELLANO UNIVERSITY
53 General Kalentong St. Mandaluyong
Senior High School Department
SYLLABUS
GRADE: 11 SEMESTER: FIRST
CORE SUBJECT TITLE: Personal Development SCHOOL YEAR: 2025-2026
CORE SUBJECT DESCRIPTION:
This course makes senior high school students aware of the developmental stage that they are in, for them to better
understand themselves and the significant people around them as they make important career decisions as adolescents. The course
consists of modules, each of which addresses a key concern in personal development. Using the experiential learning approach, each
module invites students to explore specific themes in their development. Personal reflections, sharing, and lectures help reveal and
articulate relevant concepts, theories, and tools in different areas in psychology.
LEARNING EXPECTED
TOPIC/LESSON TIME FRAME STRATEGIES ACTIVITIES
COMPETENCIES OUTCOMES
FIRST QUARTER (JUNE 2 - AUGUST 8, 2025)
List Down 5 Understand the
Expectation about guidelines, rules and
□ Subject Orientation 1 Day/90 mins. Lecture/Questioning
the subject and requirements for the
explain them all subject.
1.1 explain that
knowing oneself can
make a person accept
his/her strengths and
Conduct self-
limitations and dealing 2 Days/180
Knowing Oneself Lecture/Discussion Journal/Seat work exploration and
with others better. mins.
simple disclosure
1.2 Share his/her
unique characteristics,
habits, and
experiences
Developing the Whole 2.1 discuss the 2 Days/180 Journal/Short Quiz Illustrate the
Person relationship among mins. Lecture/Discussion connections
physiological, between thoughts,
cognitive, feelings, and
psychological,
spiritual, and social
development to
understand his/her
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a
behaviors person’s holistic
2.2 Show the development
connections between
thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors in actual life
situations
Developmental Stages 3.1 classify various
and Challenges in Middle developmental tasks
and Late Adolescence according to
developmental stage
3.2 Evaluate one’s Understand the
development in skills and tasks
comparison with appropriate for
2 Days/180
persons of the same Lecture/Discussion Journal/Short Quiz middle and late
mins.
age group adolescence, and
3.3 Discuss that facing preparatory to
the challenges during early adulthood
adolescence may able
to clarify and manage
the demands of teen
years
SUMMATIVE TEST
4.1 discuss that facing
the challenges during
adolescence may able to Understand stress
clarify and manage the and its sources;
demands of teen year various stress
Coping with Stress in 4.2 express his/her
2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion/Group Reflection/Journal/ responses; and
Middle and Late feelings on the
mins. Activity Group Activity coping strategies
Adolescence expectations of the
significant people for healthful living
around him/her (parents, in middle and late
siblings, friends, adolescence
teachers, community
leaders)
The Powers of the Mind 5.1 discuss that 2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion/Individual Reflection/Journal/ To identify ways to
understanding the left mins. Activity Short Quiz
and right brain may help
in improving one’s
learning improve learning
5.2 explore two types of
using both the left
mind-mapping
techniques, each suited and right brain
to right brain- or left
brain-dominant thinking
styles
6.1 interpret the
concepts of mental Understand the
health and psychological concepts about
Mental Health and well-being in everyday
2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion mental health and
Well-being in Middle observations about Reflection/Journal
mins. Strategic Questioning/ wellbeing in middle
and Late adolescence mental health problems
during adolescence and late
6.2 identify his/her own adolescence
vulnerabilities
1st QUARTER EXAMINATION
7.1 discuss that
understanding the
intensity and Identify ways to
differentiation of communicate and
emotions may help in
2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion manage emotions
Emotional Intelligence communicating Reflection/Journal
mins. Strategic Questioning/ in a healthy
emotional expressions
7.2 explore one’s manner
positive and negative
emotions and how one
expresses or hides them
8.1 discuss an
understanding of teen-
age relationships,
including the acceptable Understand the
and unacceptable 2 Days/180 Demonstration/Group Reflection/Journal/ dynamics of
Personal Relationships
expressions of mins. Activity Group Activity attraction, love,
attractions and commitment
8.2 express his/her ways
of showing attraction,
love, and commitment
Family Structures and 9.1 appraise one’s 2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion Reflection/Journal/ Identify the firm
Legacies family structure and the mins. Short Quiz and gentle sides of
type of care he/she family care that
gives and receives, affect a person’s
which may help in
understanding development
himself/herself better
during
9.3 prepare a plan on
how to make the family middle and late
members firmer and adolescence
gentler with each other
SUMMATIVE TEST
10.1 explain that
through understanding Set a personal
of the concepts of career career goal
and life goals can help in based on the
2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion/
Persons and Careers planning his/her career results of
mins. Application
10.2 identify the selfassessment of
personal factors various
influencing career personal factors
choices
11.1 discuss the Performance Task /
external factors Career Presentation
influencing career Make a career plan
choices that may help in based on his/her
career decision making
2 Days/180 Lecture/Discussion/ personal goal, and
Career Pathways 11.2 prepare a career
mins. Application external factors
plan based on his/her
personal goal and influencing career
external factors choices
influencing career
choices
2ND QUARTER EXAMINATION
