Exploring Career Decisions

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Exploring Career Decisions

• UNITA Who Am I and What Can I Become?
• 1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

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Who am I and what can I become?

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

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Youve 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?

• Reading
• Writing
• Doing
• Hearing
• Alone
• In groups

• With music
• Without noise
• With pictures and graphs
• By teaching others

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Verbal/Linguistic

• Definition
• Verbal/Linguistic related to words and language
• Characteristics
• Likes to read books
• Listens to and gives oral presentations
• Communicates through written and oral messages
• Likes discussions and debates
• Likes to explain things
• How does this person learn best?
• Saying, hearing, and seeing words

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Logical/Mathematical

• 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

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Bodily/Kinesthetic

• 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

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Visual/Spatial

• 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

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Musical/Rhythmic

• 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

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Interpersonal

• 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

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Intrapersonal

• 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

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Naturalistic

• 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 natures patterns, such as erosion
  and climate, learning how things work, and cause
  and effect relationships

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