Where Are You Now? Exploring Your Identity

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Your identity is made up of many different parts, and so too will your students' identities be comprised of many different dimensions. By completing this checklist, you should gain a better sense of your own identity and the different aspects of your future students' identities. For each component, check your identity status as diffused, foreclosed, in a moratorium, or achieved.

 

Identity Status

Identity Component
Diffused
Foreclosed
Moratorium
Achieved

Vocational identity

Religious identity

Achievement/intellectual identity

Political identity

Sexual identity

Gender identity

Relationship identity

Lifestyle identity

Ethnic and cultural identity

Personality characteristics

Interests



If you checked "Diffused" or "Foreclosed" for any areas, take some time to think about what you need to do to move into a "Moratorium" identity status in those areas and write about this in your portfolio.