Got Style and Personality?

1. Got Style and Personality? Using Personality Type and Learning Style to Improve Teaching and Learning Dr. Marsha Fralick

2. Ice Breaker What should I visit if I were to travel to your city? Think Pair Share

3. Overview • Course description and results • Learning style • Exercise • Personality type • Exercise • 7 minute demo • Resources for faculty

4. Cuyamaca College El Cajon, CA

5. 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

6. College Success Course • 3 units • Transfers to four year universities • One of the top 15 revenue producing programs in the college

7. Course Choices • Face to Face • 22 sections • Blended • 22 sections • Online • 12 sections

8. Bridge High School Community College University

9. Key to Success: Make it Count • Transfers as general education for CSUC, Area E, Lifelong Understanding • Transfers to University of California

10. Applied Psychology From theory to practice Academically rigorous, yet practical Easy to read

11. Broad Scope College success Career success Lifelong success

12. College Success Motivation Time and Money Memory and Reading Test Taking Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

13. Career Success Personality and Related Majors Learning Style and Intelligence Interests and Values Career and Educational Planning

14. Lifelong Success Communication and Relationships Critical and Creative Thinking Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Appreciating Diversity Positive Thinking Life Stages

15. Program Results Program Review 2000, 2005

17. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

18. Persistence Students who return the next semester. Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester.

19. College Persistence Semester to Semester 5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College All successful PDC students 89% All students 63% A 26% improvement!

20. Key Theme Learning Style • How to learn new and difficult material • How to become a lifelong learner

21. Measures preferences in 20 areas • Perceptual • Auditory • Visual • Kinesthetic • Tactile

22. Immediate environment • Sound • Heat • Light • Design (formal or informal)

23. Emotionality • Motivation • Responsibility • Persistence • Structure

24. Sociological • Self oriented • Peer oriented • Adult oriented

25. Physical • Time of day • Food intake • Mobility

27. Note that a detailed list of learning strategies for your style follows this chart.

28. Learning Style Exercise: The Paper Airplane

29. Key Theme • Personality Type • What is your type? • How does it affect your teaching style • How can you help your students?

31. 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?

33. Begin Self-Assessment How we interact with the world and where we place our energy E_________________________|_________________________ I Extraversion Introversion

34. Self-Assessment The kind of information we naturally notice and remember S_________________________|_________________________N SensingIntuition

35. What are your goals for this workshop? Think Pair Share

36. By Ian Jackson

37. Self-Assessment How we make decisions T_________________________|_________________________F ThinkingFeeling

38. Self-Assessment Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way J_________________________|_________________________P JudgingPerceiving

39. J and P Exercise: • Where do you stand? • I can play anytime • I have to finish my work before I play

41. College Success 1 • Resources for faculty and students http://www.collegesuccess1.com/ Training Notes

42. What is Something you learned? Something you found useful?

43. Questions? • Discussion • Evaluation