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Exploring Career Decisions. UNITA: Who Am I and What Can I Become? 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles. 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?
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Exploring Career Decisions UNITA: Who Am I and What Can I Become? 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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.
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.
Reading Writing Doing Hearing Alone In groups With music Without noise With pictures and graphs By teaching others How do you learn best? 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
Verbal/Linguistic • Definition • Verbal/Linguistic – related to words and language • Characteristics • Likes to read books • Listens to and gives oral presentations • Communicates through written and oral messages • Likes discussions and debates • Likes to explain things • How does this person learn best? • Saying, hearing, and seeing words 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
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 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.
The End 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.