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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
• Personality type
– Exercise
• 7 minute demo
• Resources for faculty
Cuyamaca College
El 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
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Motivation
Time and Money
Memory and Reading
Test Taking
Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Career Success
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Personality and Related Majors
Learning Style and Intelligence
Interests and Values
Career and Educational Planning
Lifelong Success
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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
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Auditory
Visual
Kinesthetic
Tactile
• Immediate environment
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Sound
Heat
Light
Design (formal or informal)
• Emotionality
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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