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?

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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

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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