Personal Assessments

Our opening go-around question was really good I think. It told a lot about each of us, by us sharing a little of some thing that helped to shape who we turned out to be today. Many of our past experiences were similar and I think a lot of us could relate to them. My parents' divorce played a major role in who I am today. I grew u really fast thinking that I had to take care of my three younger siblings all the time. It really reinforced my tendency to want to "mother" others all the time and take control of situations.

It's really important to know what helped to shape who we are today so we can know who we are because if we don't know who we ourselves are, how are we to help our students figure out who they are? the quote by Jesse Jackson said "you can't teach what you don't know and you can't lead where you won't go." We have to be willing to look at ourselves and recognize who we are and what makes us who we are so we can help our students do the same.

The list of words we made about ourselves of descriptive words was a good thing too. It was a way to evaluate how we see ourselves with both strengths and weaknesses. How we see ourselves is important in how we portray ourselves and our students will pick up on that as well. It goes back to leading by example. If we know who we are ourselves and take the time to evaluate ourselves our students will be able to see that as well and be more likely to do the same.

Going through the self awareness assessment was interesting and even enlightening in a way. It made me stop and think about how aware I was of myself in each category. I saw both some obvious strengths and weaknesses based on what I focus on more/ care about more deeply in my life. My three weakest categories were intellectual, physical, and emotional. I tend to not have a certain set way to study and even though I don't, I find it's usually in a fairly similar fashion. I am comfortable with who I am, but I like predictability and routine, so I often refrain from taking taking chances unless I'm fairly certain of what the outcome will be. Change can throw me off, even though it may not be a whole lot. As for my physical awareness, I've never thought too much about what I eat or making an effort to exercise. I've always been active but in the last few years even that's become harder to maintain, but my eating habits have not gotten any better.

In the last couple months I've tried to make a better effort to eat healthier and exercise more. Now I just need to keep that up. I'm going to try harder to better adapt to changes and better understand how I study best and use that to my advantage.