Career Decision Bell Ringers for September 10 th , 2010

1. Career Decision Bell Ringers for September 10th, 2010 • What is the definition of the word skill? • What are the three categories of personal skills? • Name one transferable skill and an example.

2. Career Decision Objectives for September 10th, 2010 • Understand interests, attitudes, and values • Understand personality and learning styles • Understand personal and transferable skills

3. Quiz Next Monday September 14th, 2010 • Quiz will be open notes and you will work individually (by yourself) • If you have notes and handouts from classes up to this point you will do fine • This PowerPoint will be a guide to what you need to know for the quiz

4. What are interests? • Interests can be defined as your favorite activities • Examples of Interests are hobbies, activities, or subjects • Interests can be categorized into people, data, things, or ideas

5. People, Data, Things, Ideas • People: helping others, teaching, making friends, babysitting, team sports, etc • Data: record keeping, surfing the Internet, reading, experimenting, or researching • Things: building or fixing things, cooking, working with your hands, and lawn care • Ideas: writing stories or music, painting, inventing, and playing a musical instrument

6. What is attitude? • Attitude can be defined how a person reacts to certain situations • Attitudes can be characterized as positive or negative • Ask yourself how do positive and negative attitudes affect outlooks on life

7. What are values? • Values can be defined as the ideas a person lives by and the beliefs that are important to that person • Ask yourself why values are important

8. The different types of Values • Relationships-being close to friends • Responsibility-being dependable and trustworthy • Achievement-wanting to succeed in whatever you do • Compassion-caring for others • Recognition-wanting to be respected and appreciated • Courage-overcoming fear to face problems

9. What is personality? • Personality can be defined as a persons feelings, actions, habits, and thoughts • Examples of the four categories: • Actions – Helpful, playful, charming… • Feelings – Happy, sad, glad… • Habits – talk fast when nervous, twirl hair when thinking.. • Thoughts – wishful, positive, negative…..

10. What are learning styles? • Learning Styles can be defined as the different ways people naturally think and learn

11. Types of learning styles • Verbal-learns by saying • Logical-learns by categorizing • Visual-learns by seeing • Musical-learns by rhythm • Bodily-learns by touch • Interpersonal-learns by sharing with others • Intrapersonal-learns by working alone • Naturalistic-learns by working outdoors

12. What are skills? • Skills can be defined as the ability to perform a task due to training and experience • Two categories of skills are personal and transferable skills

13. Personal skills • Mental Skills-creative writing, mathematics, memory • Physical Skills-gymnastics, aerobic exercise • Social Skills-conversion

14. Transferable skills • Communication skills: speaking and writing • Listening skills: sending and receiving messages • Problem-solving skills: handling conflicts • Technology skills: computer knowledge • Decision-making skills: making wise decisions • Organizing and planning skills: time management • Teamwork skills: working with team members • Adaptability skills: adjusting to change

15. Any questions or comments you have for me about the quiz or anything we have studied thus far?

16. Enough of the Quiz junk…….lets have some fun!