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Unit A: Who Am I and What Can I Become?Objective 1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

ConceptCollege Career Choices (8)

Lesson Essential QuestionsExplain the relationship between your interests, values, personality, learning

styles and skills. (8)

Self-AssessmentSelf-Assessment

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• Self-Assessment is a way to learn more about who you are.

• To discover who you are, you can use self-assessment tools in the form of:• Checklists

• Questions

• Drawings

• Interest, attitude, and values inventories are self-assessment tools that will help you discover who you are.

Activities that involve writing stories or music, painting, inventing, and playing a musical instrument.

Activities that involve helping others, teaching, making friends, babysitting, team sports, etc.

Activities that involve building or fixing things, cooking, working with your hands, and lawn care.

Activities that involve record keeping, surfing the Internet, reading, experimenting, or researching.

People

Data

Things

Ideas

AttitudeAttitude is your general view of the worldA good attitude

View the good side of things. Seeing the good in a bad situation Having an open mind about things

A bad attitudeThat means you have a negative attitudeSeeing the bad side of things.

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What are values?What are values?Values tell us what is good, important,

useful, desirable, appropriate...etc. Values generate behavior. Values answer the question of why we

do what we do. What your family determine is good,

important, useful, desirable, and appropriate.

Does not have a monetary $$$ emphasis.

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Different Types of ValuesRelationships – such as family or friends.

Responsibility – such as responsibility for work, duties, others

Achievement – such as advanced education, promotions, accomplishments

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Different Types of Values

Compassion – such as caring for people or animals

Recognition – such as receiving awards or attention

Courage – such as doing the right thing even at risk of self harm

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World of WorkWinning in the New World of Work http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=YngtirsnmmU

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Who am I and what can I become?

Understanding your personality and identifying your learning styleWhat makes you who you are?What makes you unique?How do you think and learn best?

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You’ve Got Personality!Personality can be categorized by your:

Actions – Helpful, playful, charming…Feelings – Happy, sad, glad…Habits – talk fast when nervous, twirl hair

when thinking..Thoughts – wishful, positive, negative…..

What are some other examples?

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How do you learn best?ReadingWritingDoingHearing AloneIn groups

With musicWithout noiseWith pictures and

graphsBy teaching others

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Verbal/Linguistic

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•Definition• Verbal/Linguistic – related to words and language

•Characteristics• Likes to read books• Listens to and gives verbal presentations• Communicates through written and verbal messages• Likes discussions and debates• Likes to explain things

•How does this person learn best?• Saying, hearing, and seeing words

Logical/Mathematical

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•Definition• Logical/Mathematical – reasoned, precise, accurate

•Characteristics• Likes to conduct experiments• Listens to work with numbers• Likes to explore patterns and relationships• Good at math, problem solving, and reasoning

•How does this person learn best?• Categorizing, classifying, and working with patterns and relationships

Bodily/Kinesthetic

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•Definition• Physical activity and movement and awareness through sensory perception – hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling

•Characteristics• Likes to move around, touch, talk, and use body language

• Good at sports, dancing, gymnastics, and crafts

•How does this person learn best?• By touching, moving, interacting with space and processing knowledge through bodily sensations

Visual/Spatial

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•Definition• Mental images, seeing, sight

•Characteristics• Likes to draw, build, design, and create• Daydreamer and imaginative• Watches movies and plays computer games• Good at sensing changes• Good at puzzles and mazes and reading charts and graphs

•How does this person learn best?• By visualizing, dreaming, and using colors and pictures

Musical/Rhythmic

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•Definition• Sound arranged in patterns, tone, and pitch through music, poetry, color, painting, and photography

•Characteristics• Likes to sing, hum tunes, listen to music, play an instrument

• Good at picking up sounds, remembering melodies, noticing pitch, rhythm, and patterns

• Good at keeping time

•How does this person learn best?• Through rhythm, melody, and music

Interpersonal

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•Definition• Related to relationships with other people

•Characteristics• Has lots of friends, likes to talk and join groups• Good at understanding people• Good at communicating• Good at mediation (resolving conflict)

•How does this person learn best?• Sharing with others, collaborative groups, and teaching others

Intrapersonal

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•Definition• Within self

•Characteristics• Likes to work alone• Reflective and self-aware• Instinctual• Original

•How does this person learn best?• Working alone, individualized projects, and self-paced instruction

Naturalistic

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•Definition• Related to nature and the environment

•Characteristics• Likes to work outside• Enjoys geography, weather, learning about the environment• Good at categorizing, organizing, planning, • Interested in preservation and conservation• Likes to work with animals

•How does this person learn best?• By studying nature’s patterns, such as erosion and climate, learning how things work, and cause and effect relationships

What Are Skills?Skill is the ability to perform a task due to

training and experience. Once you’ve learned something, it becomes a skill.

3 Types of Personal Skills

1.Mental Example: Creative writing, mathematics,

memory

2.Physical Example: Gymnastics, aerobics exercise

3.Social Example: Conversation

Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.

Examples include:Communication

skillsListening skillsProblem-solving

skillsTechnology skillsDecision-making

skills

Organizing and planning skills

Teamwork skillsSocial skillsAdaptability skills