Assignment 2B

I decided to test one of the areas of all my lessons that tend to be the most difficult for my students; THE PRESENTATION!

I honestly don't know what it is about having to get up in front of a group of people that you know and share your story that makes people lose all their composure, but it seems to happen in EVERY class i teach regardless of age or experience. So I decided to focus this assignment on the presentation potion of the lesson. I delivered the lesson to the same students I have been working with all year. Last week each student was asked to step up to the front of the class and present their Fantasy/Reality Timelines to their peers. What I found most interesting was that simply because these students are the advanced members of the school population didn't mean they had a clue on how to present any type of information without being nervous and ready to fail just to get out of having to be center stage.  

This was my desired learning of the students experience after the presentation:

 MCA-Day 5: PRESENTATIONS

Students will be able to engage with their classmates and enhance their public speaking abilities by sharing their timelines.

They will gain insight to their peer’s timelines and learn to appreciate the diversity within their classroom as well as the unique goals and realities of others

Unfortunately after my experience with this lesson I realized that I can't expect students to know what they don't know simply because they are bright. I did not set up my students to speak in a public manner withoiyt being uncomfortable and I did offer them support through the lesson plan to prepare the. I do have a public speaking seminar and lesson plan that I offer to students at the end of the lesson. However, what i absolutely need to change is when this lesson on public speaking is offered to the students. There are so many interactive lesson plans within Life Skills that I now believe that public speaking should be one that is offered very early on to prepare everyone from feeling uncomfortable and compromised. 

Assignment 1A

 My Personality Traits

I must say that based on the personality test, I was once again not shocked by the results. My personality test on came back stating I am an ENFP.

Extroverted (E) 75%	Introverted (I) 25%
Intuitive (N) 68%	Sensing (S) 32%
Feeling (F) 60%	Thinking (T) 40%
Perceiving (P) 59%	Judging (J) 41%

 Again, I have found that the last decade of my life and the experiences I have gone through have truly transformed my behavior and my personality. I come from being the shyest and most introverted child that possibly ever walked the face of the planet to having the realities of life and necessity force me into a new personality. My job within the corporate world forced me to open up and have a voice, and then as a leader I was forced into an even more extroverted role that I have become a completely different human being. I hope that my experience as an introverted young adult and understanding what that feels like and now being extroverted as an older adult will help me gain a better understanding to all my students and their personalities. I feel like I can hopefully relate to more students because I have truly lived in both worlds and that experience will allow me to understand my student’s unique perspectives better. I do feel that my overall challenge will be to find a place within myself that is grounded and rooted in balancing and maintaining a middle ground within all my personality traits. I was once told by a former boss that my biggest success and my greatest downfall as a leader will come from the same place; my all or nothing personality. As much as I resented her in the moment I found that she was absolutely right, that character trait has been the best and worst thing in my life. If I can consistently manage that personality trait with my students and my teaching, I think I will hopefully have a decent shot at success…