PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT VISION BOARD PROJECT

SCO’S: v  Investigate nature verses nurture and how it affects our learning. v  Better understand emotions of ourselves and others and learn how to deal with stresses in their life. v  Demonstrate an understanding for the theories of socialization, learning, and personality development. v  Investigate how theories of socialization and development affect our lives. v  Reflect on your own personality development and learning. v  Use self­reflective thinking to enhance understanding of their own cultural values 

as well as accept cultures and subcultures different from their own.

Close your eyes and picture yourself in the future. It may be a few months or years from today. See the person you are; what you are doing, who you are with, what you have accomplished, what is important to you, and how people relate to you. How does it feel to be you? Feel the person you are, your true self. The vision board represents the deepest and best within you. It comes out of a solid connection with your deep inner life. It can be the fulfillment of your own unique gifts. It's the expression of your unique capacity to contribute. Think about who you are and what has shaped your personality development. Which socialization agents have made you who you are today and how has nature/nurture shaped you as an individual. You are to include this as part of your vision board. Think about who you are as an individual with respect to gender and ethnicity in particular and how that has influenced your socialization.

Write down goals that you wish to accomplish over the year, or over the next couple of years. Think about personal goals and career goals. It represents who you want to be, what you want to do, how you want to feel, what you want to own, where you want to go and who you want to associate with. They can be material things, feelings or images of what you want to attract into your life.

Flip through magazines or surf the internet and collect images, thoughts, words and phrases that you want to manifest. For example, you want to try a new hobby next year. Find a picture of the hobby want and glue it onto your vision board. Do you want to travel more? Where do you want to go? Find images of the places you want to visit and put them on the vision board. Do you want more joy and happiness in your life? Find images that would represent that for you or just the words alone will work. The more creative and detailed you are the more powerful and accurate it will be.

Your vision board must include your past as well as your future self. You will be presenting your vision board to the class, so only include things you want to share with others

Agents of Socialization Family Mass Media Popular Culture School Clubs/Social Groups Work Ethnicity Gender Religion Government Peers Environment

Your vision board is a reflection of who you are as an individual, how you came to be the person you are today as well as the 

type of person you want to be in the future.

ESSAY: Include a typed 500 word written component that explains the meaning behind the words, images and symbols of your vision board. Be sure to tie in the agents of socialization and any personality development theories and concepts that you learned in class.

EVALUATION: 20 MARKS

5 4 3 2 Vision Board

Excellent vision board, includes lots of pictures, words and symbols. Much effort and creativity. Very relevant to

Very Good vision Board. Includes a good deal of pictures, words and symbols. Good effort and creativity.

Good vision board. Includes some pictures, words and symbols. Fair effort and creativity.

Weak vision board. Includes very few pictures, words and symbols. Poor effort and creativity.

Class Presentation

Very thorough and captivating presentation. All aspects of vision board explained. Clear understanding of who you are as a person as reflected through the vision board.

Interesting presentation. Most aspects of vision board explained. Clear understanding of who you are as a person as reflected through the vision board.

Somewhat thorough and captivating presentation. Some aspects of vision board explained. Somewhat clear understanding of who you are as a person as reflected through the vision board.

Not a very thorough or captivating presentation. Few aspects of vision board explained. Unclear understanding of who you are as a person as reflected through the vision board.

Essay Excellent essay and explanation of personality development. Proper length. All components of vision board are explained in essay. Proper format.

Very good essay and explanation of personality development. Most components of vision board are explained in essay. May not be proper length or typed.

Good essay and explanation of personality development. Some components of vision board are explained in essay. May not be proper length or typed.

Weak essay and explanation of personality development. Some components of vision board are explained in essay. Improper length and or not typed.

Connections to Sociology

Excellent use of theories, agents of socialization and concepts from Sociology to explain vision board.

Very good use of theories, agents of socialization and concepts from Sociology to explain vision board.

Good use of theories, agents of socialization and concepts from Sociology to explain vision board.

Weak use of theories, agents of socialization and concepts from Sociology to explain vision board.

DUE MAY 7 TH !!!!