Self Awareness-Week 6

This week was focused on self-awareness. I think that this is an important topic because you should know yourself and why you are the way you are. If you know yourself you can help others know themselves. My role in helping the incoming students become more self-aware is to encourage them on the importance. The book says that people who struggle with self-awareness do not recognize how their choices affect their lives. Self-awareness is has a lot to do with the success, especially as a student. I can help the students be more self aware by… 1) knowing myself. How can I help and teach something that I don’t know myself? 2) Discuss topics such as habits of mind, habits of mind can be good or bad, so I will discuss both and help the students recognize what they are and how they can change them if they feel that they need to. This will hopefully help for students to think in a different way. I guess a good question to go with that would be, what do you hope to get out of the class? (Some example answers could be…a good grade, a relationship with the professor, an easy A, the knowledge the class has to teach, or make friends with fellow students). All of these answers can be discussed to help the student identify with why they said that answer and with hearing other people’s answers they can hopefully learn to view the classroom in a different way.

I like the activity that Anthony and Beth had us do about why we are the way we are. I think we all learned a lot about each other and a lot about ourselves. I actually kind of went through something like that when I went through counseling at Student Counseling Services. I found out why I am such a perfectionist and why I establish relationships the way I do. I think that SCS would be a great place to refer students if they feel that they are having trouble being self-aware.

3 goals to improve my self-awareness:

1) Set up a sleeping pattern that allows me to get between 7 and 8 hours of sleep a night if possible. This would mean that I would need to get homework and studying done a little sooner so that I am not cramming the night before.
2) Get regular exercise by waking up a little earlier and doing Wii Fit at least twice a week. I bought it for this reason and I really should start doing it.
3) Start a savings account. I have enough money for one because of my scholarships and working. I need to save money and not spend it on “toys”.

Notice that most of my goals have to do with physical awareness. This one definitely got away from me after high school when I wasn’t in sports and doing high school classes anymore.

Well I guess that is enough for this week. I will continue to discover my self-awareness, so that I will be able to help the students discover theirs as well.

See you all on Tuesday everybody!