Transcript How does this person learn best?

Exploring Career
Decisions
Unit A: Who Am I and What Can I Become?
Objective 1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and
values.
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and
values.
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Discipline
determines
your destiny,
not your desire
Concept
College Career Choices (8)
Lesson Essential Questions
Explain the relationship between your
interests, values, personality, learning
styles and skills. (8)
Self-Assessment
• Self-Assessment is a way to learn more
about who you are.
• To discover who you are, you can use selfassessment tools in the form of:
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Checklists
Questions
Drawings
• Interest, attitude, and values inventories are
self-assessment tools that will help you
discover who you are.
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and
values.
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People
Activities that involve helping others,
teaching, making friends, babysitting,
team sports, etc.
Data
Activities that involve record keeping,
surfing the Internet, reading,
experimenting, or researching.
Things
Activities that involve building or fixing
things, cooking, working with your
hands, and lawn care.
Ideas
Activities that involve writing stories or
music, painting, inventing, and playing a
musical instrument.
Attitude
 Attitude is your general view of the world
 A good attitude
 View the good side of things.
 Seeing the good in a bad situation
 Having an open mind about things
 A bad attitude
 That means you have a negative attitude
 Seeing the bad side of things.
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What are values?
 Values tell us what is good, important, useful,
desirable, appropriate...etc.
 Values generate behavior.
 Values answer the question of why we do what
we do.
 What your family determine is good,
important, useful, desirable, and appropriate.
 Does not have a monetary $$$ emphasis.
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Different Types of Values
 Relationships – such as family or
friends.
 Responsibility – such as responsibility
for work, duties, others
 Achievement – such as advanced
education, promotions,
accomplishments
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Different Types of Values
 Compassion – such as caring for people or
animals
 Recognition – such as receiving awards or
attention
 Courage – such as doing the right thing
even at risk of self harm
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World of Work
 Winning in the New World of Work
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YngtirsnmmU
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Who am I and what can I become?
 Understanding your personality and identifying
your learning style
 What makes you who you are?
 What makes you unique?
 How do you think and learn best?
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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You’ve Got Personality!
Personality can be categorized by your:
 Actions – Helpful, playful, charming…
 Feelings – Happy, sad, glad…
 Habits – talk fast when nervous, twirl hair when
thinking..
 Thoughts – wishful, positive, negative…..
What are some other examples?
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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How do you learn best?
 Reading
 With music
 Writing
 Without noise
 Doing
 With pictures and
 Hearing
graphs
 By teaching others
 Alone
 In groups
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Verbal/Linguistic
•Definition
• Verbal/Linguistic – related to words and language
•Characteristics
• Likes to read books
• Listens to and gives verbal presentations
• Communicates through written and verbal messages
• Likes discussions and debates
• Likes to explain things
•How does this person learn best?
• Saying, hearing, and seeing words
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Logical/Mathematical
•Definition
• Logical/Mathematical – reasoned, precise, accurate
•Characteristics
• Likes to conduct experiments
• Listens to work with numbers
• Likes to explore patterns and relationships
• Good at math, problem solving, and reasoning
•How does this person learn best?
• Categorizing, classifying, and working with patterns
and relationships
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Bodily/Kinesthetic
•Definition
• Physical activity and movement and awareness through
sensory perception – hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling
•Characteristics
• Likes to move around, touch, talk, and use body
language
• Good at sports, dancing, gymnastics, and crafts
•How does this person learn best?
• By touching, moving, interacting with space and
processing knowledge through bodily sensations
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Visual/Spatial
•Definition
• Mental images, seeing, sight
•Characteristics
• Likes to draw, build, design, and create
• Daydreamer and imaginative
• Watches movies and plays computer games
• Good at sensing changes
• Good at puzzles and mazes and reading charts and
graphs
•How does this person learn best?
• By visualizing, dreaming, and using colors and pictures
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Musical/Rhythmic
•Definition
• Sound arranged in patterns, tone, and pitch through music,
poetry, color, painting, and photography
•Characteristics
• Likes to sing, hum tunes, listen to music, play an
instrument
• Good at picking up sounds, remembering melodies,
noticing pitch, rhythm, and patterns
• Good at keeping time
•How does this person learn best?
• Through rhythm, melody, and music
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Interpersonal
•Definition
• Related to relationships with other people
•Characteristics
• Has lots of friends, likes to talk and join groups
• Good at understanding people
• Good at communicating
• Good at mediation (resolving conflict)
•How does this person learn best?
• Sharing with others, collaborative groups, and teaching
others
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Intrapersonal
•Definition
• Within self
•Characteristics
• Likes to work alone
• Reflective and self-aware
• Instinctual
• Original
•How does this person learn best?
• Working alone, individualized projects, and self-paced
instruction
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Naturalistic
•Definition
• Related to nature and the environment
•Characteristics
• Likes to work outside
• Enjoys geography, weather, learning about the environment
• Good at categorizing, organizing, planning,
• Interested in preservation and conservation
• Likes to work with animals
•How does this person learn best?
• By studying nature’s patterns, such as erosion and climate,
learning how things work, and cause and effect relationships
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What Are Skills?
 Skill is the ability to perform a task due to training and
experience. Once you’ve learned something, it
becomes a skill.
3 Types of Personal Skills
1. Mental
 Example: Creative writing, mathematics, memory
2. Physical
 Example: Gymnastics, aerobics exercise
3. Social
 Example: Conversation
Transferable skills are general skills used in
school and in various types of jobs.
Examples include:
 Communication skills
 Listening skills
 Problem-solving skills
 Technology skills
 Decision-making skills
 Organizing and planning
skills
 Teamwork skills
 Social skills
 Adaptability skills
Discipline
determines
your destiny,
not your desire