Provide an example of using concrete examples to teach positive personality traits.

Awareness of one's personality is important because students often don't realise that they posses undesirable personality traits. Very few people would describe themselves as disagreeable. Often, we all like to think of ourselves as open, agreeable, conscientious and emotionally stable. However, we can't simple tell students that they are, for example, disagreeable. But we can ILLUSTRATE and DISCUSS desirable and undesirable personality characteristics, and this is what we mean by "use concrete examples to teach positive personality traits." For example, we can formally teach and highlight positive personality traits such as conscientiousness and agreeableness in our lesson plan design. This will capitalise on the cognitive component of personality development. In fact, seeing behaviours and consequences concretely illustrated is more effective than hearing them describe by teachers. For example, it becomes harder for students to be disagreeable when they understand that disagreeableness leads to negative outcomes, and they know that other students are aware of both the trait and the consequences.