Recognizing strengths 4: Identifying my challenges

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Recognizing Strengths' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 4 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Self-Awareness is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

Learning to recognize their own strengths can be a crucial self-esteem boost for your students. These social and emotional learning activities are useful in growing this recognition, helping them develop a positive and healthy self-perception that can be used to identify areas of self-improvement as well as to reflect on how their strengths can help them succeed.