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As a teacher, one of the most difficult things we have to help a student achieve is the belief that they can succeed. This belief can be a hard-won item.
Historical, sociological, and self-awareness concepts can be recognized and portrayed in a completely unique way with the aid of digital tools. This works toward the goal of helping a student feel confidence in their own abilities.
This article and lesson plan will help you work with your students to learn how their sense of "self" affects the way that they view themselves, and the world around them - and how other people in their lives affect that view. Finally, you will be able to help them express their "self" with digital media. We'll begin with a discussion that provides us the necessary background, and then work into the actual lesson plan.
Self-Image
Dr. Maxwell Maltz, an emerging [self_image] expert on self-confidence, has stated that the "self-image," the picture we all have of ourselves, is the key to human personality and behavior. "Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior," said Maltz.
In his book, Psycho-cybernetics, Dr. Maltz talks about the importance of something he calls the self-image, that little photograph we carry around of our self. As a plastic surgeon he could make a woman, whose face had been scarred, beautiful again. But he discovered that some of the women remained introverted and avoided crowds. Dr. Maltz had removed the scars from their face, but they still carried around a little photograph of themselves with a hideous scar on it. The scars on their self-image made life unbearable.
We start our social lives as children. The experiences that we have during these first social years have a long-lasting impression on the view we carry around of ourselves into adulthood. Until we've found who we are inside, we are adults carrying around the same kind of scars. We compromise our self-esteem for that image we carry around.
Of course, not all of us have self-esteem issues. Some people are blessed with an acceptance of themselves that is rare, unique, and beautiful. Our perception of who we are- or our mental image of ourselves - affects
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