Transcript Got Personality? - College Success 1

Got Personality?
Using Personality Type to
Improve Teaching and Learning
Dr. Marsha Fralick
Ice Breaker
Introduce yourself.
Where are you from?
What is one thing I should see if I
were to visit where you live?
Going Green! Additional handouts are located at:
http://www.collegesuccess1.com/Conferences.htm
Overview
• Course description and results
• Personality type
• Exercises
• How does it affect teaching and
learning?
• 7 minute demo
• Resources for faculty
Cuyamaca College
El Cajon, CA
Personal Development
124, Lifelong Success
• 8000 students enrolled in college
• 1600 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
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
The Transfer Approval
Process
• Academic Rigor
• Broad Scope
Careers
Lifelong Success
• Articulate with Universities
Broad Scope
• College success
• Career success
• Lifelong success
College Success
• Motivation
• Time and Money
• Memory and Reading
• Test Taking
• Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Job Jar Activity
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
Course Choices
• Face to Face
• 22 sections
• Blended
• 22 sections
• Online
• 12 sections
Bridge
High
School
Community
College
University
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
• Personality Type
• What is your type?
• How does it affect your teaching
style
• How does it affect learning in the
classroom?
•Key theme throughout course
•Carl Jung and personality type
Online:
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
How does it affect career choice?
How does it affect teaching and learning?
Talkers and Listeners
Talker
• What made me a
talker?
• How can I develop my
listening skills?
• How can I help
listeners talk more?
Listener
• What made me a
listener?
• How can I develop my
talking skills?
• How can I help talkers
listen more?
Self-Assessment
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S_____________________________|___________________________N
Sensing
Intuition
By Ian Jackson
Sensing or Intuitive
• How does it affect career choice?
• How does it affect teaching and
learning?
Self-Assessment
How we make decisions
T_____________________________|___________________________F
Thinking
Feeling
How does it affect career choice?
How does it affect teaching and learning?
Self-Assessment
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J_____________________________|_____________________________P
Judging
Perceiving
How does it affect career choice?
How does it affect teaching and learning?
J and P Exercise:
• Where do you stand?
• I can play anytime
• I have to finish my work before I
play
Using Technology to Integrate Personality Type
into the College Success Course
7 MINUTE DEMO
College Success 1
• Resources for faculty and students
http://www.collegesuccess1.com/
Conferences
What is
• Something you learned?
• Something you found useful?
• Questions?
• Discussion
• Evaluation