Gallup Strength Finder

Took the Gallup Strength Finder as part of EdCareer’s program to prepare us better for the workplace.  You answer a series of questions and they determine your top 5 characteristics amongst 34 listed below. My top 5 were:

  1. Learner
  2. Achiever
  3. Self-Assurance
  4. Responsibility
  5. Restorative

Full Reports: Report and Action Plan

Very impressed with the results… key phrases I liked from the report:

  • You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence.
  • Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate classes.
  • This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential.
  • You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself.
  • You know that you are able—able to take risks, able to meet new challenges, able to stake claims, and, most important, able to deliver.

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Tech 4 Learners – Week 4 – Reading Assignment

Assignment:

Choose, and read, any two project reports from the LDT 15 collection on the Stanford Digital Repository (sdr.stanford.edu).  In preparation for class, consider the following questions:

  1. Who needs to learn what?  Why?
  2. To what extent did this solution address that problem?
  3. How did the author(s) leverage research to inform, inspire, and perhaps justify the problem and the project?

Response:

“Aptitude”, Bryan Quintanilla, 2015 – report | video

“Training Computer Science Instructors”, Mikala Streeter, 2015 – reportproject

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