PERSONALITY AND LEARNING PORTFOLIO

Who Are You?

What Are Your Strengths?

How Do You Learn?

Rationale: Personality, intelligence, and our views of others and ourselves as learners can be too easily reduced to labels. To understand ourselves we must go beyond labels and attempt to truly understand our strengths, intelligences, and personality. This exercise is designed to provide you with a glimpse of yourself and your work and a chance to reflect on progress. This is not an assessment of what you have already done – it assesses how you view what you have done and how you apply this information to continue making progress in the learning process.

Task: You will create a portfolio to represent your personality and current standing as a learner. It will include examples of your work, inventories and personality tests, and reflection and application exercises. The final product will take the form of a magazine or folder. It is due: ______.

Outline of Your Portfolio and brief directions

I.  Introduction

a.  Title Page – include unique title for portfolio, name, class, hour, date

b.  Table of Contents

c.  Preface (reflection on overall portfolio – written last to describe big picture)

II.  Student Profile

a.  Personality Collage – magazine clippings or other pictures to represent your personality.

b.  25 Slips Reaction – 1 page reflection on how others see you, how you see yourself focusing on similarities and understanding why there may be differences.

III.  Determining My Strengths and Assets

a.  Multiple Intelligences Inventory

b.  Myers-Briggs Test Results

c.  Big Five Personality Test Results

d.  Reflection Applying Personality Test Results – 1 page reflection applying personality test results from the Big Five and Myers-Briggs to potential Careers choices.

IV.  Educational Achievement

a.  “My Greatest Successes in High School” – 1 page reflection outlining the largest strides you have made as a learner (high grades, great responsibilities, exceeding expectations, etc)

b.  “My Educational Goals” – ½ page min – what will you do after high school, what are your long term goals, how are you making small steps toward those goal now.

c.  Copies of 5 pieces of exemplary work – at least one from Topics in Psychology.

d.  Reflection on Included Work – 1 page reflection on how these 5 chosen pieces from this year represent your best work.