Discus my personal learning style to assess my strengths and opportunities for growth.

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Reflection Paper

Self-Assessment and Reflection Paper

John Elias

Com 515

15 November 2003


Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discus my personal learning style to assess my strengths and opportunities for growth; this self-assessment will also help me improve my weaknesses.  Along with the Meyers-Briggs Study, the DVC Learning Styles Survey was useful as a tool that assessed my learning style.  As this type, the ISFJ, I possess cautiousness, gentleness and thoughtfulness; I am very stable, literal and organized.    My weaknesses in short is thinking and acting with my head and not my heart.  This learning style is conducive to a team approach.  Finally I develop a self-managerial strategic improvement plan.  


Personality Type

     Upon completing the Myers-Briggs Personality test it became apparent that I am an “ISFJ”, introvert, sensing, feeling and judging person.  As a proponent of empirical surveys, the Meyers Briggs survey and the Learning style survey both surprised me with  the affirmation that theoretically I am a different person than the way I perceive myself to be.  

     As an introvert, I should be typically shy, reserved, interested in fulfillment though working by myself.  

     As a sensing person, I do not thrive in the development  of fresh concepts and principles.  I focus on one task at a time when I commence working.  I relish working with teams, such as that of a learning team; a creative thinker, I can come with many ideas.  I like to examine then develop the ideas gained from amplified empirical research.  Then I apply these ideas to the project at hand.

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        As a feeling person, I make decisions regarding life, and people in my life, predicated on understanding and recognition, and my individual ethics.  In an effort to administer reasoning to my feelings, I investigate the task and then make a decision according to how I am affected.

        As a judging person, I am fixated and seldom adaptive.  For the most part, my perception of an issue is one sided.  This is illustrated in my life when I have disagreements with my fiancé.  I am dogmatic when situations arise that send the norm into a tailspin: whether it be with gamily, ...

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