Personality Profiles.

Do What You Are is an Add on to Naviance. Check out the validity/reliability.

The BEST free version is 16 Personalities. Read about its reliability/validity here. Check out country profiles.

Scientific research into Personality typs

Extra version and Introversion–check out the neurotransmitters. 

More here and here.

“[They’re] usually one or the other, either preferring to be in the thick of crowds or sitting on the sidelines and observing the passing show.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi–more here.

UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, has discovered that people of different personality types don’t merely rely on different brain regions — they use their brains in fundamentally different ways. Using colorful anecdotes and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares key insights from his lab.

Fascinating look at Dr. Nardi’s brain scans of all 16 types:

A please for Introverts:

Read Susan Cain’s Book, Quiet.

 

Assessment	Number	Naviance	Free
Strengths Explorer in Naviance	32	X
Holland Codes (also known as Career Interest Profiler in Naviance)	27	X	X
Clusterfinder (in Naviance)	23	X	X
Learning styles	22	$	X
VIA Character Strengths	21		X
Multiple Intelligences	13	$	X
Strengthsfinder/Strengthsquest from Gallup	3
My Majors (www.mymajors.com)	2		X
Morrisby Profile	2

Fun graphics –THE MBTI Breain

 

Our Scope and Ssequence

When	What
Summer 10/11	Students take the assessment on their own time. Discuss results with parents. Reflect and write up on Naviance.
Early Fall Junior Year	Small group debriefing focusing on General profile Strengths/weekness Happiness Stress
Mid Fall	Small group debriefing focusing on Learning styles Decision making College Satisfiers
Late fall	Three week colleges research springboarding off the results. See Uniquest website.
Winter Junior Year	Written feedback on how personality type may come into play in the college search. Share and discuss with parents.2

College research assignment –see my website.

Bonus: Your Harry Potter character based on MBTI