Evaluation Of A Student 's Strengths

The two dimensions from my big five personality profile that were revealed to be strengths were Openness to Experience score and my Agreeableness Score. The personality dimension of Openness to experience includes “intellectual, imaginative, curiosity, and being broad-minded” as positive characteristics (Kinicki & Fugate, p.81). Additionally, creative thinking, and being independent, as well as not being a fan of routines would be included in the definition of this dimension. The personality dimension of Agreeableness definition includes characteristics such as being “trusting, good-natured, cooperative, as well as being softhearted” (Kinicki & Fugate, p.81). I would add caring and work well in a group as other strengths in this personality dimension.

Strengths: Being diligent, make sure that I submitted all the requirements in the class before due date. Enthusiastic in learning new skills and activities.

These strengths include organization, participation, and creation of checklists. I feel I stay very organized in this class, as I have all of my documents organized inside my binder ready for a notebook check. In regards to participation, I try my best to raise my hand nearly every class. I stay active and focused so that I can obtain all of the information. I also ask questions frequently which helps me to avoid mistakes or any confusion. My final strength, the fact that I create checklists, has benefitted me immensely. Checklists help to make sure all requirements are met for any project or essay, which is how I received a 91 on my Pilgrim Presentation and an 85 on my Canterbury Tales Short Essay. Checklists have helped me to score higher on assignments with multiple requirements, but not all assignments were as simple as creating a

Generally, when looking at each items vertically, most of the columns start with ones which indicates that this skill was easy for the higher ability students and finish with most of zeros which demonstrates that it was difficult for the lower ability students. In between, there is a mixture of ones and zeroes breaking down in the column. This demonstrates that the items in this task are suitable to use to analyse students’ ability. However, there is an irregular pattern of 1’s and 0’s for the item 1.2. The less able students could get this skill while the more able students could not get it. This may be because these students did not have this skill. Therefore, this item is still suitable to be used to assess the student’s abilities.

Upon completion of the StrengthsFinder survey, I discovered that my five greatest strengths were Achiever, Discipline, Responsibility, Relator, and Competition. However, I was skeptical about the initial results until I read what each strength entails. I found most of the information given to be accurate. According to the description of those strengths, I discovered that I use them daily without realizing it.

Her social strengths are working while interacting with other students. Also, she gets along with everyone in the class.

I recently took the StrengthsFinder assessment for a class, which after a series of questions determined that my three greatest strengths are that I’m deliberative, disciplined, and an achiever. I felt that these strengths were accurate at describing me well. I have always been very deliberative when making decisions, as I like to evaluate all of the options and evidence, before I make a decision and I very rarely do things on a whim. One particular example of a decision I made after a lot of deliberation was when I was deciding which college to attend roughly four years ago. After researching and visiting all of the schools I had been accepted to, I made a chart in which I ranked all of the schools in a wide variety of characteristics that

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Cassandra, the student I have been observing, demonstrated interpersonal (social) and intrapersonal skills and academic strengths. First, I recognize one of Cassandra’s social strengths was her ability to follow teacher directions. I observed three instances in which Cassandra demonstrated the ability to follow directions compared to her peers. For example, I notice students at three workstations ignoring the teacher directions to clean up. The teacher requested the class to clean up their workstation at least four times within 10 minutes. Cassandra was one of the first students to have cleaned her Lego math activity. A second strength was Cassandra’s ability to help others. After clearing her own workstation, Cassandra helped other students with their cleaning. Indeed, she was able to help two other groups with cleaning up without being asked. A final social strength demonstrated by Cassandra was her interpersonal skills. While working with three other students, I witness Cassandra share materials and ideas without conflict. From my previous experience working with elementary students, I understand that children in Cassandra’s age have a difficult time working with peers. Cassandra, I found, worked well with other students. In one instance she shared her Lego home with those of another classmate at the table to make it bigger.

I have many strengths that I will bring to Mrs. Dickson’s classroom. My strengths include being a hard worker, great organization skills, being able to follow directions, able pay close attention to detail and I am very patient. I believe these strengths have been proven by my grades in school and the fact that I have never been to ISC for bad behavior.

(Explore): I have been an individual learning all my life. During my undergraduate years, I seek quiet locations at the library where I can study alone. Coming into pharmacy school I reserved time during my day to study individually. Something, I have incorporated into my schedule is studying alone, but in a group of people. It has been fulfilling because I can ask questions about materials I need clarification on. (69)

After assessing my strengths and weaknesses from the self-assessment survey, I am not surprised by the results. Prior to this survey it has always been clear on my weaknesses and my strengths pursuing a career as a therapist. I am a very sensitive person, particularly when it comes to people being violated. Often when people are emotional around me, especially telling me something that they are going through, I tend to cry with them or get as emotional with them. I don’t know how I will be able to sit and talk with a person if they are telling me about being raped, kidnapped or beaten. I know that I can overcome this because in the past I have been put in situations where people have come to me about matters such as being raped or seeing

“The goals are to maximize an individual’s functional independence and quality of the life through development and learning improvements in social skills and communications, reductions in disability and comorbidity promotion of independence, and provision of support to families”(Lai, 2014). We are looking for the child’s weaknesses and strengths. What behaviors need to be targeted and how the change will come. William or Will for short refuses to comply with staff. When asked to stop talking or to finish his work and get in trouble with other students. Monthly behavior incidents average about 10 per month.

One of the strengths I will enhance is 1.1 Social Interest (BSEP, 2007; OMEd, 2014, p29).Children will learn to observe and imitating peers and also engaging in short group activities (BSEP, 2007; OMEd, 2014, p29). By having circle time children are together sitting and observing each other. If most of the children are singing and having fun the other children watching will follow.

The education we receive today holds the power to shape the individuals we will be in the future. Not only does our education aid our choices throughout school, but also the choices we make in our personal lives like where we choose to work and how we portray ourselves to society. Personally, I have enjoyed my educational experience. I have enjoyed learning new concepts and interacting with new people. Of course, there are obstacles along the way. However, these obstacles have given me the opportunity to realize my strengths and weaknesses and learn to improve in both areas. As a student, I hold onto my perseverance, seek guidance from influential figures in my life, and embrace my challenges to which all contribute to my hope to become the finest version of myself.