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Read to Learn

Read to Learn. How to determine your values, interests, aptitudes, and abilities The importance of good self-concept in choosing a career How to identify your personality and learning styles and match them to career choices. Main Idea.

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Read to Learn

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  1. Read to Learn • How to determine your values, interests, aptitudes, and abilities • The importance of good self-concept in choosing a career • How to identify your personality and learning styles and match them to career choices

  2. Main Idea Developing a good self-concept and using it to guide your career decisions will help you lead a rewarding, enjoyable life.

  3. Key Concepts • Your Lifestyle Goals • Your Values • Your Interests • Your Aptitudes and Abilities • Your Personality and Learning Styles

  4. Key Terms • lifestyle goals • values • data • aptitude • ability • personality • self-concept • learning styles

  5. Your Lifestyle Goals Considering your lifestyle goals will help you plan your future and choose a career. lifestyle goals the ways you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future

  6. Your Lifestyle Goals Questions to Ask Yourself • What do you want to accomplish in life? • Where would you like to live? • How do you want to spend your free time? • Do you want a lot of money or just enough to be comfortable? • Do you plan to have a family?

  7. Your Values Your values define who you are, shape your attitudes and choices, and help you set priorities. values your beliefs and principles

  8. Six General Values Choosing a career that matches your values can help ensure that you will enjoy work.

  9. Your Values People in Your Life SpiritualBeliefs Influences on Your Values PersonalExperience Society

  10. Six General Values Responsibility Relationships Six GeneralValues Recognition Compassion Achievement Courage

  11. Putting Your Values into Practice If you decide that helping others is one of your values, your career choices may include librarian, teacher, and nurse’s aid.

  12. Your Interests Your interests are the things you enjoy doing. You can discover what your interests are by trying new activities.

  13. Favorite Activities Make a list of your ten favorite activities and rank them in order of preference. You can add this list to your Personal Academic and Career Portfolio.

  14. Data, People, or Things? Identifying your interests can help you recognize whether you would prefer to work with data, people, or things. data information, knowledge, ideas, facts, words, symbols, figures, and statistics

  15. Data, People, or Things? Accountants, librarians, physicists, proofreaders Data Teaching, counseling, training rescue dogs and their handlers People Working with tools, plants, machinery, equipment, raw materials, and vehicles Things

  16. Interest and Aptitude Assessment An interest and aptitude assessment matches your interests and aptitudes to possible careers.

  17. Your Aptitudes and Abilities Think of an aptitude and an ability as the “before” and “after” of learning a skill. aptitude a potential for learning a certain skill ability a skill you have already developed

  18. Identifying Your Aptitudes and Abilities • Make a three-column chart with the headings Mental, Physical, and Social. • Ask friends or family members what they think your aptitudes and abilities are.

  19. Matching Your Aptitudes and Abilities to Careers Try to think of at least one career that requires each of your skills.

  20. Your Personality and Learning Styles Your personality should also influence your career choice. personality your unique combination of attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics

  21. Your Self-Concept Your self-concept is the kind of person you think you are. self-concept the way you see yourself For example, you may feel shy in new situations, but outgoing in familiar surroundings.

  22. Different Learning Styles Being aware of your own learning styles helps you to determine the best way to learn something. learning styles the different ways in which people naturally think and learn

  23. Eight Learning Styles Figure 2.2

  24. Different Learning Styles You will do well in a career that suits your strongest learning style.

  25. Determining Your Personality Type No personality is better than another, but some personality characteristics may help you succeed in a certain profession.

  26. Determining Your Personality Type Personality tests can help you understand your personality type and how you behave in social situations.

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  28. Section 2.2After You Read • List the differences between an aptitude and an ability. An aptitude is a potential for learning a certain skill; an ability is a skill that has already been developed.

  29. Section 2.2After You Read • Explain how your values can influence the career choice you might make. Knowing your values can help you select a career that is fulfilling, with goals that are important to you.

  30. Section 2.2After You Read • Explain how knowing your learning style can help you select a career. Knowing your learning style can help you select a career that suits your strongest learning style.

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