Pasquale Iemma

The section on accomplishing clerical tasks in a balanced and efficient way was very helpful.

I am definitely a to do list person. This module provided me some additional insight in how I can fine tune my to do list process to be more efficient.

As educators we are tasked to design a delivery model that works for all learning personalities. This requires expertise in understanding personality traits in a meaningful way.  While the ideal situation would include personality trait assessments for both educators and learners, in reality, we must rely on more practical interventions such as ensuring that we engage students in the learning process in a way that allows for each to leverage their personal strengths.  

i.e. “students who possess blue personality traits like to help others, so group activities can help meet the needs of multiple student color types. Group projects… >>>

Both the teaching and learning process can be influenced by the teacher's personality traits either in a positive or negative way. It is important for the educator to know and understand their own personality traits. Of particular importance is understanding the stressors related to certain traits. And developing mitigation strategies accordingly.

That said, understanding the personality strengths and stressor of the learner are equally important. The educator can leverage this information to provide engaging and motivating activities within a course. This is how I would apply this information.

Each color has a distinct learning style. This is extremely useful information to have when developing courses and related activities.

Greens need freedom to explore topics that interest them. 

Oranges need to have fun and excitement. 

Green and orange students may be at risk for not having their needs met in the traditional lecture-based learning model. They have difficulty with structure and lectures. These students would not thrive in a rigid lock step delivery model.

It seems that the traditional eduation world is geared toward the gold and blue students. I would strive to create activities that would appeal to… >>>

This module was extremely interesting. I have participated in a few of the personality assessments discussed in the module and find that there are some consistencies that ring true for me. Jung- I assessed as an ENTJ.

While the pure Jung followers would argue that once and ENTJ, always an ENTJ. I have found that my personality traits do adapt to the situation at hand.  The old saying...."know your audience". After years of feeling like a bull in a china store, I have learned that gaining awareness and understanding of one's primary personality characteristics allows for adaptation to the situation… >>>

Early on in my nursing career I had a nurse mentor who cautioned me about becoming a "one trick pony". She explained the importance of remaining a competent generalist while achiving expert status in specialities. With this in mind, I have strategically guided my clinical and academic experience to expose me to learning things that were out of my comfort level. In doing so, I learned the most  meaningful things from my peers, students and patients. Learning is a life long experience. We can always learn something from someoneleses' lived experience.

Planning and facilitating learning experiences that will "fit" the course is much more complicated when dealing with the reality of multigenerational students. While, we do not want to reduce any student to gerneralized "characteristics", the information provided is helpful in providing basic foundational constructs to support further discussion.