Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody!
It's the ninth week in my experiences as a Hixson Peer Mentor (Nine weeks?! Wow!), which means another week in University Studies 311A has come and gone. This week we continued with student-led lessons, and this week we heard from Shelby and Stephanie about academic success and how it relates to peer educators and their mentees.
I thought that the icebreaker and activity were very well-executed; either of these activities could be used in any club or organization in order to evaluate the strengths of the members. The first activity we did was an icebreaker in which we were given three cards (each having a trait or interest on it), the object being finding other people and trading cards so that you have the three cards that most suit you. My three cards fit me to a tee: teaching (my passion and my planned future career), social (I'm a huge people person, and I love meeting new people), and organized (if you saw my planner, you would understand this trait completely; hint: lots of labels).
The second activity involved a personality assessment that evaluated our individual learning preferences. The four types were visual, kinesthetic, reading and writing, and audio. I've known I'm a visual learner ever since learning about Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory, so it wasn't a surprise that the same rang true with this quiz (although hands-on learning/kinesthetic was a near second).
I loved the fact that these two interactive activities were something that could be carried on to our mentees in the fall, as well as in other organizations or even in my teaching career (knowing my students' learning styles just might be helpful!).
That's all for this week! On to Selection Sunday and the rest of my spring break! I can't wait to see my Cyclones in the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and to fill out March Madness brackets!
I loved the two activities, too! They will definitely be useful for next fall!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed the two activities! I know the first icebreaker can be somewhat cheesy, but you do learn a lot about others as well as yourself!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the icebreaker activity too, Brady. The test was also fun to take to see which learning style we are, definitely excited to use it in the fall as well!
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