Got Personality?Using Personality Type to

Improve Teaching and Learning

Dr. Marsha Fralick

Ice Breaker

Introduce yourself.

Where are you from? What is one thing I should see if I were to visit where you live?

Going Green! Additional handouts are located at: http://www.collegesuccess1.com/Conferences.htm

Overview

• Course description and results• Personality type

• Exercises• How does it affect teaching and

learning?• 7 minute demo• Resources for faculty

Cuyamaca CollegeEl Cajon, CA

Personal Development 124, Lifelong Success

• 8000 students enrolled in college

• 1600 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

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

The Transfer Approval Process• Academic Rigor• Broad Scope

CareersLifelong Success

• Articulate with Universities

Broad Scope

• College success

• Career success

• Lifelong success

College Success

• Motivation• Time and Money• Memory and Reading• Test Taking• Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

Job Jar Activity

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

Course Choices

• Face to Face• 22 sections

• Blended • 22 sections

• Online• 12 sections

Bridge

High School

Community College

University

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 Semester5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College

• All successful PDC students 89%• All students 63%

A 26% improvement!

Key Theme

• Personality Type• What is your type?• How does it affect your teaching

style• How does it affect learning in the

classroom?

• Key theme throughout course

• Carl Jung and personality type

Online:

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

How does it affect career choice?How does it affect teaching and learning?

Talkers and Listeners

Talker• What made me a

talker?• How can I develop my

listening skills?• How can I help

listeners talk more?

Listener

• What made me a listener?

• How can I develop my talking skills?

• How can I help talkers listen more?

Self-Assessment

The kind of information we naturally notice and remember

S_____________________________|___________________________NSensing Intuition

By Ian Jackson

Sensing or Intuitive

• How does it affect career choice?• How does it affect teaching and

learning?

Self-Assessment

How we make decisions

T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling

How does it affect career choice?How does it affect teaching and learning?

Self-Assessment

Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way

J_____________________________|_____________________________P Judging Perceiving

How does it affect career choice?How does it affect teaching and learning?

J and P Exercise:

• Where do you stand?

• I can play anytime

• I have to finish my work before I play

7 MINUTE DEMO

Using Technology to Integrate Personality Type into the College Success Course

College Success 1

• Resources for faculty and studentshttp://www.collegesuccess1.com/

Conferences

What is

• Something you learned?

• Something you found useful?

• Questions?

• Discussion

• Evaluation