My Strengths and How I Grow
Name personal strengths with examples, describe things that feel hard and possible next steps, and notice how skills have changed with practice or help. Recognise that enjoying an activity and doing it well are different.
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name a personal strength and give a specific example of using it
- Describe something they find hard and suggest a practice step, useful change or request for help
- Compare what they could do before with what they can do now, without expecting improvement at every try
1 · Read
A strength is something you do well. Give a real example of using it. Enjoying an activity is a preference; it does not show your skill. Feedback tells you what someone noticed about what you did.
Zara's animal joke made her brother laugh yesterday. That is an example of her joke-telling strength. A limitation is something you find hard. Spelling is hard for Zara, so she plans to practise a few words with help each evening.
Practice and help can build skills. Scores may stay the same or dip. Compare what you could do before with what you can do now. On a bar chart, find the week label and read the number above that bar. One score cannot tell you everything about a skill.
If practice is not helping, ask for a useful change. If a coach says, 'Your throw helped,' ask which throw and why. Try a tip and check whether it helps.
Use examples to describe strengths. Name a hard part and a next step. Practice and help can build skills, but not every try has to show progress.
These two readings and the revised flashcards were written for this dataset.
More to read
A page about your strengths
Draw two boxes on a page. In one, write something you enjoy. In the other, write something you do well. The same activity may belong in both boxes, but it does not have to.
Next to a strength, add a real moment when you used it. You might describe helping someone, making something or solving a problem. If someone gives you a compliment, ask what they noticed. Their answer may help you find an example.
Leave room to add more later. One page cannot tell everything about you. Your skills do not decide how much care you deserve.
When practice still feels hard
Imagine trying to catch a ball and missing it several times. You could ask someone you trust to watch one try. Ask, 'What could I change?' Choose one tip to try, rather than changing everything at once.
After a few tries, pause. Did the tip help? Do you need a smaller step, a rest or another explanation? A difficult try is not a label for the whole of you.
Keep a short note or drawing of something you can do now. Later, compare it with an earlier note. You may notice a change that was hard to see from one day to the next. Progress does not have to happen at every try.
2 · Watch
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8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.