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Got Style and Personality? Using Personality Type and Learning Style to Improve Teaching and Learning Dr . Marsha Fralick. Ice Breaker. What should I visit if I were to travel to your city? Think Pair Share. Overview. Course description and results Learning style Exercise - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Got Style and Personality?
Using Personality Type and Learning Style to Improve Teaching and
Learning
Dr. Marsha Fralick
Ice Breaker
What should I visit if I were to travel to your city?
Think
Pair
Share
Overview
• Course description and results• Learning style
– Exercise• Personality type
– Exercise• 7 minute demo• Resources for faculty
Cuyamaca CollegeEl Cajon, CA
Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success
• 8000 students enrolled in college• 2000 take PDC 124 each year• One of the top 15 revenue producing
programs for the college • 56 sections a year
College Success Course
• 3 units• Transfers to four year universities• One of the top 15 revenue producing
programs in the college
Course Choices
• Face to Face– 22 sections
• Blended – 22 sections
• Online– 12 sections
Bridge
High School
Community College
University
Key to Success: Make it Count
• Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding
• Transfers to University of California
Applied Psychology
• From theory to practice
• Academically rigorous, yet practical
• Easy to read
Broad Scope
• College success
• Career success
• Lifelong success
College Success
• Motivation• Time and Money• Memory and Reading• Test Taking• Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Career Success
• Personality and Related Majors• Learning Style and Intelligence• Interests and Values• Career and Educational Planning
Lifelong Success
• Communication and Relationships• Critical and Creative Thinking• Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle• Appreciating Diversity• Positive Thinking• Life Stages
Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005
The most significant finding is increased persistence.
Persistence
• Students who return the next semester.
• Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester.
College Persistence Semester to Semester 5 Year Average
at Cuyamaca College
• All successful PDC students 89%• All students 63%
A 26% improvement!
Key Theme
Learning Style• How to learn new and difficult material• How to become a lifelong learner
• Measures preferences in 20 areas– Perceptual
• Auditory• Visual• Kinesthetic• Tactile
• Immediate environment– Sound– Heat– Light– Design (formal or informal)
• Emotionality– Motivation– Responsibility– Persistence– Structure
• Sociological– Self oriented– Peer oriented– Adult oriented
• Physical– Time of day– Food intake– Mobility
Note that a detailed list of learning strategies for your style follows this chart.
Learning Style Exercise: The Paper Airplane
Key Theme
• Personality Type– What is your type?– How does it affect your teaching style– How can you help your students?
Carl Jung 1875-1961
• We are born with natural preferences which we develop over a lifetime.
• There are no good or bad types.• Each type has their own unique gifts
and talents.• Exercise: What is a preference?
Begin Self-Assessment
How we interact with the world and where we place our energy
E _________________________|_________________________ I
Extraversion Introversion
Self-Assessment
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S _________________________|_________________________ N
Sensing Intuition
What are your goals for this workshop?
Think
Pair
Share
By Ian Jackson
Self-Assessment
How we make decisions
T _________________________|_________________________ F
Thinking Feeling
Self-Assessment
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J _________________________|_________________________ P
Judging Perceiving
J and P Exercise:
• Where do you stand?
– I can play anytime
– I have to finish my work before I play
College Success 1
• Resources for faculty and students
http://www.collegesuccess1.com/
Training Notes
What is
• Something you learned?
• Something you found useful?
• Questions?
• Discussion
• Evaluation