Personal & social development // Self-Awareness

Personal Growth Over Time

Reflect on your own growth over time — the things that challenge you now are not fixed, and noticing how you have already changed builds genuine self-knowledge

Ages
10 to 11
Type
Thinking skill
Builds on
3 topics
Leads to
1 topic

Quick check

Can the learner look back over the past year or two and point to something they used to find really difficult that they now handle better — and explain what changed?

Ask this to see whether the topic is secure.

Topic // Mastery

What mastery looks like

What a learner can do once this topic is secure.
  • emotion vocabulary development continues to age 11 (PMC)
  • self-reflection importance in children research

Topic // Map

Where this fits

What to learn first and what this topic opens up, with the reason for each link. Required links come first.
  • RequiredMust come first
  • HelpfulHelps, but not essential

Before this

3 topics
  • Questioning First ImpressionsRequired

    Self-Awareness // Ages 9 to 10

    Reflecting on your own growth requires first having developed honest self-awareness of your assumptions and reactions — growth reflection is hollow without prior self-scrutiny

  • Patterns in Your Own ReactionsHelpful

    Self-Awareness // Ages 7 to 9

    Recognising that your patterns have changed over time requires first having noticed those patterns in the present

  • Reflecting After LearningHelpful

    Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn // Ages 9 to 10

    Reflecting on your own personal growth is the PSD form of the universal learning-reflection habit

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Personal Growth Over Time

Ages 10 to 11 // Thinking skill

Leads to

1 topic
  • Emotional Patterns Over TimeHelpful

    Emotional Literacy // Ages 9 to 11

    Recognising how emotional awareness has grown over time is the Emotional Literacy domain-specific form of the foundational growth-reflection habit

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