Our emotions toolkit: self-esteem
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain what self-esteem is and what affects it.
Key learning points
- Confidence is when we feel it is possible we can do something.
- We all have different strengths.
- Self-esteem is how confident we feel about ourselves in general.
- Self-esteem is built by positivity and success.
- Self-esteem is broken down by negativity, unkindness and failure.
Keywords
Confidence - believing in yourself and your abilities and feeling sure you can do things, even when they're hard
Self-esteem - feeling good about yourself and knowing that you're a good person who deserves to be treated well
Positive - good, encouraging thoughts or comments
Negative - bad, unkind thoughts or comments
Failure - when something doesn't work out how you wanted or when we don't achieve something we wanted to
Common misconception
Confidence and self-esteem are the same thing.
Self-esteem is an overall feeling about yourself. Confidence can be different in different situations.
Teacher tip
Consider how you can use classroom displays to celebrate pupils to build self-esteem.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the word to the definition.
feelings we have inside, like happiness, sadness or anger
things that happen to us and how they make us feel
the way things become different to how they used to be
Q2.What do emotions give us?
Q3.Which statements are true?
Q4.Strong emotions ...
Q5.If we were feeling worried, what could we do to manage our emotions?
Q6.Why is it important to manage our feelings?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the word to the definition.
believing in yourself and your abilities
general confidence in yourself
not achieving something that we wanted to
Q2.We all have strengths.
Q3.Self-esteem is ...
Q4.How can we build our self-esteem?
Q5.How can self-esteem get broken down?
Q6.How can we feel good about ourselves?
To help you plan your 4 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Our emotions toolkit: self-esteem, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 4 RSHE (PSHE) lesson on: Our emotions toolkit: self-esteem, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
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