Got Style and Personality? Using Personality Type and Learning Style to Improve Teaching and Learning Dr. Marsha Fralick
Jan 19, 2016
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?
Think
Pair
Share
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
Pair
Share
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