Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Your Personality and The Group

So today I want the class of 2013 to learn about their personalities and how they may interact in a group. My objective for this lesson is for students to comprehend different personality types and write a paragraph concerning how their personality may tie into to other's personalities. I believe it is important to get a feel for who you are and how you interact with others. The test we will take is the short Jung test. It is approximately 50 questions and shows us insights into our personality. We will then study what it means to be the four letters and write a short paragraph explaining what our letters mean and how we will relate to our groups. No full names should be used in this exercise. We will talk about how I will identify you. This is a 10 point project. 4 points for explaining your letters. 5 points explaining how you will work in a group (includes what jobs you will want, problems that might arise, and how others will see you) 2 points for actually posting the comment to this blog entry. Sounds like fun? I think so; let's make it happen!! (For the lesson and SLEs go to my website.)

P. S.
If you want to know what I am. . .ENFJ (I have been an ENFP, those letters fluctuate.) I have leadership qualities and only 2.5% of the population is an ENFP.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Teacher's Wish Wordle

At the Arkansas Leadership Academy's Teacher Institute, Forum 19 (a group of selected educators) was asked to give a one word response to the question, "What is one quality or value you would give to all teachers?" Many teacher leaders created good words to send out to other educators. I went to Wordle, which is a site that creates artistic layouts from word choices, in order to illustrate the words used. The larger the word in the Wordle equals the more times a word was used. Enjoy!!

A Teacher's Wish
Wordle: A Teacher's Wish

ALA Teacher Institute First Impressions
Wordle: Teacher Institute First Impressions