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

Got Personality?
Using Personality Type to
Improve Teaching and Learning
Dr. Marsha Fralick
Ice Breaker
Introduce yourself.
Where are you from?
Happiness is . . . .
(In addition to friends and family)
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 Theme
• Personality Type
• What is your type?
• How does it affect your teaching
style
• How does it affect learning in the
classroom?
• How does it affect career choice
and motivation?
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
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 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