NSTP Module 2: Human Behavior: Honesty PDF

**NSTP- CWTS 1** **MODULE 2: HUMAN BEHAVIOR: HONESTY** **LEARNING** **OBJECTIVES** After studying this module, I as a teacher should be able to: - identify the concept of Honesty - understand the importance of this human behavior; Honesty - evaluate the benefits of being honest ![](med...

**NSTP- CWTS 1** **MODULE 2: HUMAN BEHAVIOR: HONESTY** **LEARNING** **OBJECTIVES** After studying this module, I as a teacher should be able to: - identify the concept of Honesty - understand the importance of this human behavior; Honesty - evaluate the benefits of being honest **TOPIC** **OUTLINE** **HONESTY** **Lesson 1: The meaning of Honesty** **Lesson 2: The Importance of having a Honest behavior** **Lesson 3: The Benefits of Honesty in different Aspects** **OVERVIEW** Honesty Helps You Find the Answers You're Looking For ===================================================== Honesty cuts through red tape, distraction, frustration and indecision. Honesty gets you where you want to go faster because you live how you really feel. You [may not always know what you want](https://medium.com/the-mission/lessons-for-my-22-year-old-self-part-1-4da2be40d023) in your future --- whether that's one month, six months or two years from now --- but your intuition will give you a feel for what is in harmony with your heart. Honest intentions in speech and action gain the attention and respect of others. These people become the ones that you not only want to influence but be influenced by. The company we keep and surround ourselves with help to define our outlook on life, as well as lift us to places we couldn't have arrived at entirely by our own efforts. **ACTIVATING** **PRIOR KNOWLEDGE** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***[HONESTY]*** IS THE FIRST CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF ***[WISDOM]*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **HUMAN BEHAVIOR: HONESTY**  **https://tinyurl.com/y2edzvfj** Honesty is defined as fairness and straightforwardness of conduct. Synonyms include sincerity, integrity and trustworthiness. They\'re all good qualities to find in a person and certainly worthwhile to learn. Honesty is going to take you places in life that you never could have dreamed and it's the **easiest** thing you can practice in order to be happy, successful and fulfilled. Honesty is part of the foundation of my core values and principles. Honesty cuts through deception and knifes its way through deceit and lies. Honesty leads to a fulfilling, free life. Honesty is not just about telling the truth. It's about being real with yourself and others about who you are, what you want and [what you need to live your most authentic life](https://medium.com/the-mission/take-the-hard-way-and-enjoy-the-journey-b11fb69f24d7). Honesty promotes openness, empowers us and enables us to develop consistency in how we present the facts. Honesty sharpens our perception and allows us to observe everything around us with clarity. **LEARNING** **ACTIVITY 1** **\ Reflection on HONESTY** **Objective**: This activity would be particularly relevant for supporting student progress towards learning outcomes with declarative knowledge**.** **Task**: Students are assigned to a question that requires them to apply, summarize, explain or identify etc. an important aspect of the information just presented. After asking the question, wait 10 to 15 seconds before asking for volunteers, or calling on a randomly selected student to respond. (It may be useful to provide a visual clue for students identifying that after posing the question you would like to them to consider a response and remain silent for the designated amount of time.) **Tools and resources**: Online resources, video, laptop, sheet of papers **LESSON 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF HONESTY** Image from page 130 of \"Pinocchio : the tale of a puppet\"... \| Flickr **https://tinyurl.com/y64hw62** Being honest isn\'t always easy, otherwise we\'d all do it all the time, but there are five main reasons why honesty is important: 1\) Without honesty there is no foundation for a lasting or enjoyable relationship in any context, whether that be with a family member, friend or romantic interest. Honesty is a voice for love that builds trust. Without it, even \'I love you\' becomes a lie in itself and there\'s no real security in the relationship. 2\) People can\'t read your mind. Being honest doesn\'t just mean telling the truth about factual information, but also about the way you\'re feeling. If you were hurt by something someone did, they may not even realize unless you are honest with them about how it affected you. If instead you hide the way you feel, then you disempower the other person from doing something about the problem and refuse the relationship the opportunity to grow. They may also feel hurt if they realize you were upset with them but said nothing, or if they know you\'re not being honest with them about the way you feel. All of these festers and damages the relationship, while on the other hand, being honest about your feelings can bring healing, solve a problem, renew hope and foster good communication.  3\) When people don\'t know the truth, they will try and guess it. That is, not being honest about something causes people to try and figure out what you\'re not saying, or what the truth actually is. This breeds gossip, which can then foster more lies and deception that other people may mistake as truth. Finally, this causes many more people to feel hurt and betrayed when the truth is finally revealed, all of which could be avoided if honesty was applied in the first instance. 4\) People are usually more hurt by the concealment of the truth than by the truth itself. Some people lie because they\'re afraid the truth will get them in trouble or cause another pain, but more often than not, while the truth may be painful, it is still usually less painful when delivered honestly than when it is wrapped in deception. Holding back on it or lying to cover it only causes people to feel betrayed as well as hurt, and to then question why you weren\'t just honest with them in the first place. 5\) Being honest improves the relationship and saves us from having to live a lie. Lies rarely come on their own: one will usually be needed to cover another until it spirals out of control. This becomes complicated for the one who started it and confusing for the one receiving it. More than that, living a lie is hard work. It means not being yourself or enjoying relationships, and that is not comfortable for anyone. On the other hand, while being honest about difficult situations may be uncomfortable at first, if it can be worked through, the relationship is strengthened, trust is built and love is deepened.  The best relationships are the ones with honesty. It may mean difficult talks and awkward confrontations, but being honest also means better relationships with others and with yourself. Open this link on mindset for a more detailed explanation: [**https://tinyurl.com/y5p7vopr**](https://tinyurl.com/y5p7vopr) **ACTIVITY 2** **REFLECTION PAPER** **Objective:** Write and identify the key ideas and importance of Honesty in their own way of living. **Task:** Write and list down all the key ideas related to the importance of Honesty. **Tools and resources**: Sheets of paper and pen. **Lesson 3: The Benefits of Honesty in Different Aspects** **I. BEING HONEST TO OTHERS**  **1. Figure out why you lie and who you lie to.** We\'ve all lied at one time or another, to different people, to ourselves, and for different reasons. But coming up with a systematic plan for becoming more honest will be difficult unless you try to define those reasons and those people for yourself. - - - - **https://tinyurl.com/y33bzu3c** **2 Anticipate behaviors that will make you feel guilty.** To break the chain of embarrassment and lying, it\'s important to learn to anticipate things that you\'ll likely feel guilty about in the future, and avoid those behaviors. When you lie, you\'re covering up some uncomfortable truth that\'s more easily couched in a lie. You can either get comfortable with the truth, or abandon the behavior that makes you embarrassed. - - **3. Stop comparing yourself to others.** Sometimes we lie to make ourselves seem bigger and better than we really are. Because we\'re constantly competing and comparing ourselves to others, any inadequacies can be most-easily overcome with a quick and creative lie. If you stop feeling competitive with others and give yourself the value you deserve, you won\'t feel the need to lie to bring yourself up, because you\'re already up! - - **4 Accept the consequence and decide to face them.** Sometimes, it\'s better to own up to lies, to deceits, and to prior behaviors that you\'re embarrassed about, rather than continue weaving an elaborate web of lies. It can be liberating and extremely healthy to come clean. Even if there will be some consequences at the end of the admission, it\'ll be the honest consequences that you deserve. - - - - - - - **1 Give yourself an objective appraisal.** It\'s important to look in the proverbial mirror every now and then and take stock of how you feel. What do you like about yourself? What do you need to work on? It\'s possible to build up elaborate psychological barriers that force us into dishonest behaviors, opinions, and activities that could be avoided by giving ourselves an objective appraisal. Write down a list of your strengths and weaknesses in a notebook, not to take stock of your self-worth, but to find things to improve and to celebrate your achievements. - - **2 Confront the things about yourself that you dislike.** A big source of dishonesty in our lives comes from an unwillingness to confront the things about ourselves that we\'re ashamed of, embarrassed about, or just plain disgusted by. Without dwelling on them, try to define them honestly. - - **3 Create opportunities for yourself to improve.** From your list of strengths and weaknesses, try to identify specific areas for improvement, and specific ways that you might improve yourself. - - **4 Take action.** When you decide to act, carry through with your decision. Lying to yourself is easy. It\'s easy to come up with a couple hundred reasons not to do something you don\'t want to do. That\'s why we let it happen so often! Make it hard on yourself. When you decide to end a relationship, or start working, start doing it. Make it happen. Now. Don\'t wait until you come up with a litany of reasons that it\'s \"not the right time.\" When you make a decision, set it in motion. - - **Avoiding Unnecessary Lies** **1 Don\'t add color to your stories.** One all-too-tempting and common little lie is in filling in extra details to make a story more entertaining. It can be tempting to make it a bear that wandered into your campsite, rather than a raccoon, but you might be setting a precedent that opens up reasons and opportunities for more lies. Let the truth be the truth and be as honest as possible. **2 Get creative with \"white lies.**\" We\'ve all been there, when someone asked something dreaded, like: \"Do I look fat in this?\" or \"Is Santa Claus real?\" Sometimes, we feel we must lie to make someone else feel better, or to lessen the blow or some uncomfortable truth, but the choice between being honest and lying isn\'t always a choice between A and B. - - - - **3 Stay silent if you need to.** If you\'re in a tense situation, in which getting honest would disrupt everyone\'s mood and happiness, it\'s not necessarily dishonest to remain silent. If you\'ve got the option of staying out of it, stay out of it. It takes courage to stay silent in an awkward situation sometimes. -  **LEARNING** **ACTIVITY 3** **Objective:** Examine their own individual concept on how to apply this kind of human behavior **Task:** Rate your own!!! HONESTY SURVEY Provide students with access to a text (e.g., journal article, blog, multimedia presentation). The questions could be provided for personal reflection, they could be presented in the form of an online quiz (weighted or unweighted) or survey. The questions might ask student to list advantages and disadvantages, or to compare and contrast different approaches noted in the lesson. **Tools and resources:** Reading references **https://tinyurl.com/y54jo3m3** **Congratulations!** You can now proceed to the module that would guide you in having honesty as a human behavior! **SUMMARY** *Let us see if you can remember the main points raised in this lesson. Below is a summary of these points:* Better Health ============= Honesty and *seeking* the truth is always the way to go. Honesty engenders confidence, faith, empowers our willpower and represents us in the best way for others to see and witness our example. Honesty improves our vitality. In an honesty experiment conducted by two University of Notre Dame professors, results showed that telling the truth is good for our health: *Telling the truth when tempted to lie can significantly improve a person's mental and physical health, according to a "Science of Honesty" study.* Respectable, admired behavior is always carried out with honesty. Telling the truth and backing it up with actions show respect for what's right and an esteem for ethical and moral integrity. Honesty is one of the key components to character and one of the most admired traits of any successful, responsible person. **Honesty** leads to a fulfilling, free life. **Honesty is** not just about telling the truth. It\'s about **being** real with yourself and **others** about who you are, what you want and what you need to live your most authentic life. \... **Honesty** sharpens our perception and allows us to observe everything around us with clarity. An emotionally intelligent person is a person of impeccable integrity and honesty; someone who can perceive and recognize the quality of honesty in another. Business transactions and the everyday transactions of human relations must be carried out with a code of trust and honesty or else everything will break down. **To be educated is to be free** **It's important to watch the film through the lens of the time it was made in. **Then, illiteracy was still a serious problem in Western countries, and both the educational system and the family model were still very much controlled by a certain way of thinking --- unmovable and inflexible in many cases. In certain corners of society it is still present, but in many others it has been transformed.  **REFERENCES** [**https://tinyurl.com/y3ggv4qg**](https://tinyurl.com/y3ggv4qg) [**https://tinyurl.com/y5p7vopr**](https://tinyurl.com/y5p7vopr) [**https://tinyurl.com/yblmywqa**](https://tinyurl.com/yblmywqa) **https://tinyurl.com/yyylo2n8** Prepared by: **DR. MARY RUTH P. CINCHEZ** Head, NSTP **RODEL A. ABARCAR** Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences