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What I do...Full time Teacher

Speaker at conferences

Pre-season Training

Mid-Summer Slump Training

Observation/consultation at camp

House keeping•Take what you want, leave the rest (Tri-State Rule)

•4 % Rule

• Have fun, laugh, learn, and be active!

#1: Personaliti

es

Dr. Lauren Crane,

Western Michigan UniversityThe Alert Scale of

Cognitive Style

To Score...•Give yourself one point for

each time you answered "A" for questions: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21.

•Give yourself one point for each time you answered "B" for questions: 4 ,5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18.

The totals imply...•0-4: strong left brain

•5-8: moderate left brain

•9-13: middle brain

•14-16: moderate right brain

•17-21: strong right brain

The WHOLE brain is used to create who we are. To think that only

one hemisphere controls thinking

is simply not true..

• Constantly monitors our sequential, ongoing behavior

• Responsible for awareness of time, sequence, details, and order

• Responsible for auditory receptive and verbal expressive strengths

• Specializes in words, logic, analytical thinking, reading, and writing

• Responsible for boundaries and knowing right from wrong

• Knows and respects rules and deadlines

• Alerts us to novelty; tells us when someone is lying or making a joke

• Specializes in understanding the whole picture

• Specializes in music, art, visual-spatial and/or visual-motor activities

• Helps us form mental images when we read and/or converse

• Responsible for intuitive and emotional responses.

• Helps us to form and maintain relationships

Let’s have some fun•0 - 8 Please Stand up - Volunteers?

•How many books are you currently reading? If given a book, where do you begin reading it?

•Raise your hand if you own a label maker. (does this bother you?)

•Thumbs up/Thumbs Down for “GTKYG” ?

Let’s have some fun•9-13 Please Stand up

•How many books are you currently reading? If given a book, where do you begin reading it?

•Raise your hand if you own a label maker. (does this bother you?)

•Thumbs up/Thumbs Down for “GTKYG” ?

Let’s have some fun•14-21 Please Stand up - Volunteers?

•How many books are you currently reading? If given a book, where do you begin reading it?

•Raise your hand if you own a label maker. (does this bother you?)

•Thumbs up/Thumbs Down for “GTKYG” ?

•“The big clean up”

The tests are fine, the debrief & the

way it is facilitated is extremely important...

That is what we are about to do...

What do you do with this?

What does this mean?

Group talk...

1) Nothing, but it was fun.

2) Something, but doesn’t apply to

camp.3)We can learn a lot by doing this...

Where we want are 0-8’s...

•Archery

•Ropes

•Waterfront

•Riflery

•Program director/Asst. Program director

Where we want our 9-13’s...

•In all areas acting as a bridge and balance

Where we want our 14-21’s...•Greeting families at

check in

•Being the “face” people at large camp gatherings

•Arts and crafts

•Group games

Camp People

Camp People

Camp People

Camp People

# 2: Introvert/Extrover

t

Introvert

Extrovert

#3: Mistakes we make...

let’s recognize these and work to fix

them

Mistakes we make...•Taking that right brained,

extroverted counselor and promoting her/him to program director/desk job

•Assuming the person who is not into the “GTKYG” or is introverted will not make a good counselor

•We don’t take the time to gather some form of this information

Mistakes we make...

•Put multiple similar personality types together with no variety

The fully right brained cabin

The fully left brained cabin

The ideal mix...•A low #, a middle # and a high #... BUT no excuses!

•“I’m not cleaning the cabin, I’m the right brainer.”

•“You talk with the kids, I’m the left brainer.”

#4: Neuroplasticity: The brain’s

ability to redesign itself

5-8

0-4

9-13

14-17

18-21

As our staff gets As our staff gets older, the older, the

tougher change tougher change becomes, but it is becomes, but it is

possible...possible...

#5: Flexibility: How do staff

respond during the “staff training”

emergency?

#6: Use your strong intuition staff to observe

during staff training:

Mingle Clump

Mingle Clump.

..

#7: Index Cards

#8: The staff

problem solving:

The “webbing”

#9: Get staff in front of

kids early in staff training

#10: “80% all summer”

#11: Meditation for all staff: Mindfulnes

s

#12: Open Mindedne

ss

#13: Understand

your differences