Response 3
• Respond to your Time Tracker - was it all that
you expected it to be? Do you schedule to your
strengths (i.e. schedule classes in the morning if
you are a morning person)? How well would you
say you know yourself?
Success
Chapter 3, pg 66
Teri Tosspon, M.A.
Heald College
Situation Puzzles
• Get into groups of 4-5
• Try to solve as many puzzles (on the handout) as
you can
Situation Puzzle Answers
1. The backpack is a parachute that failed to open
2. The man is a dwarf/little person and can only
reach to the 10th floor
3. The man had the hiccups and the bartender
scared them out of him
4. Sunday is a horse
5. The man is a justice of the peace, marrying the
women to other men.
Why explore who you are as a learner?
• Because your GPA is not WHO you are
• Your unique intelligence can change and develop
▫ Picture a bag of rubber bands
▫ Some are thin, some thick
 Some are short, some long
▫ BUT all of them can stretch
• Assessments can help you learn about yourself
• Self-knowledge is an important, lifelong goal.
What tools can help you assess how
you learn and interact with others?
• Assess your Multiple Intelligences with Multiple
Pathways to Learning
▫ Howard Gardner
▫ 8 Unique intelligences – areas of ability
• ADSF
Two self-assessments
Multiple Intelligences
• Learning Preferences
• What abilities and areas of
learning come most easily to
you
Personality Spectrum
• Personality Traits
• How you interact with
information and people
Assess yourself: Multiple Intelligences
• Multiple Pathways to Learning (pg 72)
• Rate EACH STATEMENT on a scale of 1-4
▫ 1 is the lowest
▫ 4 is the highest
• Complete the chart on page 73
• When you complete the task, look at Key 3.2 on
pg 74.
• Turn to a partner and discuss: Which are your
strengths? How can you use this information to
help you learn?
How can you discover how you learn?
Multiple Intelligences
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Verbal-Linguistic: Listening, reading, writing, speaking
Logical-Mathematical: Math, science, patterns, sequences
Bodily-Kinesthetic: Coordination, working with hands
Visual-Spatial: Visual art, graphics, charts, maps
Interpersonal: Social activity, cooperative learning, teamwork
Intrapersonal: Self-awareness, independence
Musical: Music, sound sensitivity, patterns
Naturalistic: Interest in nature, ecosystem
Personality Spectrum
• Carl Jung
▫ Individual’s preferred “world”
 introverts/extrovert
▫ Different ways of dealing with the world
• Briggs-Meyers – 16 “types”
• Keirsy-Bates: The Personality Spectrum
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Thinker
Organizer
Giver
Adventurer
How can you discover how you learn?
Personality Spectrum
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Thinker:
Giver:
Organizer:
Adventurer:
Analytical, problem solver
Authentic, communicator
Responsible, detailed
Daring, spontaneous
Assess yourself: Personality Spectrum
• Personality Spectrum (pg 76)
• Put each question (1-8) in ORDER of the one
most like you (4) to the one least like you (1)
▫ DIFFERENT THAN THE MI NUMBERING
• Complete the chart on page 77
• When you complete the task, look at Key 3.3 on
pg 78.
• Turn to a partner and discuss: Which are your
strengths? How can you use this information to
help you learn?
Personality Spectrum: Example
Directions: Rank order all four responses to each question
from most like you (4) to least like you (1) so that you use the
numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 one time each. Write numbers in the
boxes next to the responses.
I learn best when the material is
a.  well organized.
b.  something I can do hands-on.
c.  about understanding and improving the
human condition.
d.  intellectually challenging.
Scoring
Plot Personality
Spectrum scores
on this diagram.
How Can You Use
Your Self-Knowledge?
• Classroom Benefits
▫ Play to your strengths
▫ Work to strengthen weaker areas
▫ Ask your instructor for help
• Study Benefits
▫ Helps you pick the right strategies
▫ Helps you understand others you are studying with
• Workplace Benefits
▫ Better performance and teamwork
▫ Better career planning
Personality Spectrum Activity
• Get into groups by your Personality Spectrum
strengths
▫ Thinker, Organizer, Giver, Adventurer
▫ Go to the group that you scored highest in. If you
“tied” in 2+areas, wait until groups are seated
then join the smaller group)
▫ Introduce yourselves
• Develop a poster answering questions 1-5 on pg
92
• Be ready to present your info to the class.
Maximizing your Classroom Experience
• Get into groups based on your MI
• Using the chart on pg 82-83, develop a plan to
utilize your strengths in the classroom and
studying. Answer these questions in your notes:
1. How can you get along with a teacher and a
teaching style
2. How can you get the most out of your
classroom learning
3. How can you study effectively
4. How ca you solve any major problem
Develop a symbol:
Remember your 8 intelligence?
• In the same MI groups, use YOUR strengths to
develop a symbol to help you remember all of
the Multiple Intelligence (MI)’s
Understanding Teaching Styles
• Lecture,
verbal focus
• Lecture with group discussion
• Small groups
• Visual groups
• Logical presentation
• Random presentation
• Conceptual presentation
• Detailed presentation
• Experience-based presentation
Assignment
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In your Multiple Intelligence (MI) group
Develop a list of the ways your MI procrastinates
Come up with solutions to those procrastinations
Prepare a presentation for the class (due next week)
for a game we will play
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Should be no more than 2-5 minutes long!
Can be a skit demonstrating procrastination/how not to
Can be a chart, list, etc
Everyone in your group MUST speak.
How Can You Identify and
Manage Learning Disabilities?
• Identifying a Learning Disability
• Managing a Learning Disability
Thinking Successfully About
How You Learn
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Analytical Thinking – analyze your levels of
ability with the Pathways to Learning selfassessment and examine how you relate to people
and the world around you with the Personality
Spectrum assessment.
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Creative Thinking – brainstorm how to relate to
instructors who teach differently than you learn.
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Practical Thinking – utilize practical study
strategies relating to your own Personality Spectrum
and Multiple Intelligence dimensions.
Oruko lonro ni
In the language of the Yoruba, an ethnic group living
primarily in Nigeria and other West African countries,
oruko lonri ni translates as “names affect behavior.”
This belief, common among the Yoruba people, refers to
the idea that people live up to the names given to them by
others or even chosen by themselves.
How would you apply this word to your life?
“…no two selves, no two consciousnesses, no
two minds are exactly alike. Each of us is
therefore situated to make a unique
contribution to the world.”
Howard Gardner, Psychologist and Educator
Homework
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Chapter 3 (read)
2 Minute Presentation on your MI
Planner 3
Portfolio 3
▫ sample on pg 93 & handout.
▫ You MUST have the at least these 5 categories:
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Personality Spectrum (scores & what they mean)
Multiple Intelligences (Scores & what they mean)
Values/Goals
Your Choice: Interests/Hobbies
Your choice: Career Interests, Personal Diversity, etc
• Higher
• Interpersonal-23
• Verbal/Linguistic – 22
• Naturalistic – 22
• Logical/Math – 21
• Intrapersonal 21
•Higher
• Lower
•Adventurer – 23
• Visual/Spatial – 15
•Imaginative
• Musical - 12
•Artistic
•visual
•Thinker – 22
•Technical
•Logical
•objective
Personality
•Giver – 21
Spectrum
•Caring
•Sociable
•Feeling
•adaptable
•Lower
•Organizer - 14
•Tactical
•Planning
• Playing games
•Structured
• Reading/writing
• Painting
• Pets
• Gardening
• cooking
Multiple
Intelligences
Interests &
Hobbies
• Education
• Self-knowledge/
improvement
• Helping/
respecting others
• Honesty
• Relaxation time
•Teaching
•Writing books
•Painting
Values
Career
interests
Teri Tosspon
Self-Portrait: Think-Link
Intelligences
Verbal/
Linguistic
- 22
Inter- •
persona
l - 23 •
Relate to
others
teamwork
Logical/
Math 21
Naturalist
ic – 22
Intrapersona
l
- 21
Visual/
Spatial-15
Musical - 12
Personality Spectrum
Adve • Imaginative Thinker
– 22
nture • Artistic
r - 23 • Visual
•Technical
•Logical
•objective
Give
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21
Organize
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Tactical
Planning
Structured
Dependable
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Caring
Sociable
Feeling
adaptable
Career Interests
Writing
Helping
others
Creativity
Teaching!
Interests/Hobbies
Playing
Games
Visuals/
websites
Painting &
Drawing
Reading &
Writing
Cooking /
Baking
My dog
‘Nilla