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

2. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire

3. College Career Choices (8) Lesson Essential Questions
Concept
College Career Choices (8)
Lesson Essential Questions
Explain the relationship between your interests, values, personality, learning styles and skills. (8)

4. Self-Assessment
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.
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

5. People Data Things Ideas
Activities that involve helping others, teaching, making friends, babysitting, team sports, etc.
People
Activities that involve record keeping, surfing the Internet, reading, experimenting, or researching.
Data
Activities that involve building or fixing things, cooking, working with your hands, and lawn care.
Things
Ideas
Activities that involve writing stories or music, painting, inventing, and playing a musical instrument.

6. Attitude Attitude is your general view of the world A good attitude
View the good side of things.
Seeing the good in a bad situation
Having an open mind about things
A bad attitude
That means you have a negative attitude
Seeing the bad side of things.
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

7. 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.

8. Different Types of Values
Relationships – such as family or friends.
Responsibility – such as responsibility for work, duties, others
Achievement – such as advanced education, promotions, accomplishments
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

9. 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
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

10. World of Work Winning in the New World of Work
1.01 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.

11. 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?
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

12. 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?
Personality is the traits that make a person unique.
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

13. How do you learn best? Reading With music Writing Without noise Doing
Hearing
Alone
In groups
With music
Without noise
With pictures and graphs
By teaching others
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

14. Verbal/Linguistic Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

15. 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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

16. Bodily/Kinesthetic Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

17. Visual/Spatial Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

18. Musical/Rhythmic Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

19. Interpersonal Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

20. Intrapersonal Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

21. Naturalistic Definition Characteristics
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
1.02 Understand personality and learning styles.

22. 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.

23. 3 Types of Personal Skills
Mental
Example: Creative writing, mathematics, memory
Physical
Example: Gymnastics, aerobics exercise
Social
Example: Conversation

24. Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.
Examples include:
Communication skills
Listening skills
Problem-solving skills
Technology skills
Decision-making skills
Organizing and planning skills
Teamwork skills
Social skills
Adaptability skills

25. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire