1. 1.01
Understand individual characteristics/traits, interests/preferences, ability levels, skill acquisition, talents/aptitudes, learning styles and values.
Essential Question: Who am I??

2. Identify & summarize personal characteristics
Attitude
One’s outlook on life; how one reacts to a situation.
Personality
The visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others
A person as an embodiment of a collection of qualities

3. SCANS Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)
SCANS are various learned abilities to perform tasks or duties of various occupations

4. SCANS SCANS' Five Competencies
*Resources: Identifies, organizes, plans, and allocates resources
*Interpersonal: Works with others
Information: Acquires and evaluates information
Systems: Understands complex interrelationships
Technology: Works with a variety of technologies

5. SCANS A Three-Part Foundation of SCANS Skills and Personal Qualities
Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks
Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons
Personal Qualities: Responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty

6. SCANS Basic Skills
Reading - Locates, understands and interprets written information in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules
Writing - Communicates thoughts, ideas, information and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, reports and graphs
Mathematics - Performs basic computations by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques
Listening - Receives, interprets, and responds to verbal messages
Speaking - Organizes ideas and communicates orally

7. SCANS Thinking Skills Creative Thinking - Generates new ideas
Decision Making - Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives
Problem Solving - Recognizes problems, devises and implements plan of action

8. SCANS Thinking Skills
Visualization - Organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects and other information
Knowing How To Learn - Uses learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills
Reasoning - Identifies principals underlying the relationship between two or more objectives and applies it in solving a problem

9. SCANS Personality Qualities
Responsibility - Displays high standards in approaching and completing tasks
Self-Esteem - Believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self
Sociability - Demonstrates understanding and courtesy to others
Self-Management - Sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control
Honesty/Integrity - Chooses ethical courses of action

10. SCANS Resources
Time - Identifies activities, prioritizes, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules
Money - Uses or prepares budgets, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives
Materials and Facilities - Acquires, stores, allocates and uses materials or space efficiently
Human Resources - Assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback

11. SCANS Interpersonal
Social Skills - Team member - contributes to group effort
Teaches Others New Skills - Helps others learn
Serves Clients/Customers - Works to satisfy customers’ expectations
Exercises Leadership - Communicates ideas, persuades others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies
Negotiates - Works toward agreements involving diverse interests
Works with Diversity - Respects differences

12. Abilities Natural or acquired skills or talents describe a person
Ex) Dexterity
skill using the hands or body

13. Interest Inventory A periodic survey of a person’s interests.
Designed to help people match their interests with occupational, educational and leisure pursuits
From an Interest Inventory, you can learn if someone likes to:
Work with other people
Work outside
Work with their hands

14. Positive self-concept vs. Poor self-concept
Self-concept is how people view their own skills, interests, and competence level.
Positive (Healthy) Self-Concept
Know what their strengths and abilities are and develop and use these to achieve worthwhile goals. They also acknowledge their weaknesses without putting themselves down because of them, and work to overcome and master these
A person will positive self-concept can easily over-come self-doubt

15. Positive vs. Poor Self-Concept
The person who is usually conceited, arrogant or proud is covering up a poor self-concept
A person with poor self-concept is usually afraid of failure and displeasing people

16. Different Types of Learners
Verbal-Linguistic: This intelligence relates to language, spoken and written.
Logical-Mathematical: This intelligence relates to numbers, patterns, and inductive and deductive thinking.
Visual-Spatial: This intelligence relates to sight and visualization, and internal mental images.
Bodily-Kinesthetic: This intelligence relates to knowledge and awareness of the body and its movement and abilities.

17. Different Types of Learners
Musical: This intelligence relates to recognizing sound and rhythm patterns.
Interpersonal: This intelligence relates to communication and relation to other people.
Intrapersonal: This intelligence relates to inner reflection and awareness, and meta-cognition. (Learning at their own pace).
Naturalist: This intelligence relates to recognition of order and patterns in nature, such as in plants and animals.