1. Welcome to your Portfolio Midterm!
There are three sections to your midterm. Please read instructions in each section and
follow the directions.
Section One:
By
Tania Moises
It is important that you make a commitment to succeed in your college education. A
good way to finish what you start is to start well! In one paragraph or more write what
your intentions (right under this paragraph) are for this class and your college education.
Intention statements are commitments you make to do a specific task or to take a
certain action. Remember to be effective your Intention Statements must begin with "I
will" or "I intend to" NEVER "I WILL TRY". Saying you will try is not good enough to
bring about change.
My intentions for this class are to maintain an A and keep it. I will try my best and grasp
all information relayed to me and use it for my near future. Furthermore, I intend to stay
in this class and not be discouraged by outside sources. In addition I intend to obtain my
associates in applied science majoring in office management and find the occupation
that best meets my interest. I intend to pass all my classes and finish as soon as
possible avoiding and thing that may take me a step back instead of forward.

3. Section Two: There are three Learning Style inventories in this section. Please
read the instructions and follow the directions for each:
One tool that students find most valuable is discussed in Chapter 1 and that is
DISCOVERING HOW YOU LEARN. This information will help you to take advantage of
your strengths and shore up your weaknesses in both school and daily living situations.
Knowing this information will help you choose activities that match your learning style. It
will also help you understand why you struggle with some activities, professors, and
courses and not others. You may also begin to understand why you get along, or work
better with some individuals than others (it may help explain why you might disagree
with those you are close to as well).
Learning Style Assignment #1: VARK
Refresher - VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning
preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-
out information. Here is your assignment:
1. Copy and paste or type your VARK results.
Visual: 4
Aural: 12
Read/Write: 8
Kinesthetic: 9
2. Now answer the following questions:
a. What are your two highest VARK scores? My highest vark score is: Aural
b. What are your two lowest VARK scores? My lowest vark score is: Visual
c. Read the Help Study Sheet a Guide to Learning Styles at:
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets

4. Click on each of the Leaning styles and read the study strategies.
d. Use one or more of the Learning Styles study strategies that you feel
would be most helpful to you and write a paragraph about each of the
following:
1. taking in information;
2. using information for effective learning;
3. communicating more effectively;
4. performing well in tests and examinations.
Write your Paragraph here:
• The strategies that would be helpful for me in taking in information is to discuss
topics with my classmates go over what’s been explained and whatever I don’t
understand discuss with the teacher. Furthermore the strategies that would be
helpful for me in using information for effective learning is to expand my notes be
very detailed also read my notes out load to a classmate to make sure I’m
comprehending what’s being taught to me. In addition the strategies that would
be most helpful in communicating more effectively and preforming well in test
and exams would be to discuss with my classmates what we’ve learned and
evaluate it in so that we can understand also what we’re learning furthermore, as
far as test taking the strategies would be Practice writing my answers to old test
questions and speak my answers aloud or inside my head.

5. Learning Style Assignment #2: Myers/Briggs
The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to
make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and
useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random
variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic
differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.
1. Do the following:
a. Copy and paste or type your Score and Personality Type:
Your Type is
ESFJ
Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 1 75 33
b. Since you have taken the Jung Test and know what your personality type
is go to this Website: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html
to Identify careers for your Jung Personality Type – you will see a list
of Personality Type Portraits.
What is your Personality Type Portrait?
Answer: The Caregiver
c. Next click on what your Personality Type is; a new window will open. Read
your Personality Type Portrait.
d. After reading the “Personality Type Portrait;” go to careers to learn some
of the careers that are possible for your personality type.
e. To do this: at the bottom of the article in the center of the page you will
see this image  click on the image to open the careers for your
personality type, a new window will open. What are the careers paths
possible for your personality type? (copy and paste the careers here).

6. • Home Economics
• Nursing
• Teaching
• Administrators
• Child Care
• Family Practice Physician
• Clergy or other religious work
• Office Managers
• Counselors / Social Work
• Bookkeeping / Accounting
• Administrative Assistants

7. Learning Style Assignment #2: Myers/Briggs (Continued)
2. Now answer the following questions:
a. Do you agree or disagree with the results – why or why not
Answer: I agree with the results 100% it describes exactly who I am from
start to finish.
b. Do these careers match the careers you have chosen for yourself?
Answer: Yes, these careers do match the careers I have chosen for
myself as I am working to obtain an associate in applied science majoring
in office management.
c. If no, will you change your career choice?
Answer:
d. What can you do with this information?
Answer: What I can do with this information moving forward is apply what I
know of myself and strengthen them in the areas that are beneficial to me
and in the areas that will affect me negatively in the near future work to fix
them in so that I can avoid finding myself in bad situations due to these
types of characteristics I have.

8. Learning Style Assignment #3: True Colors:
Are you a thinker, always analyzing, like a GREEN? Do you prefer inspiring people and
building their self-esteem as a BLUE? Are you the responsible one who is always on
time and keeping everyone else on time like GOLD? Or do you thrive on entertaining
and persuading people, like an ORANGE? Take the FREE quiz now and find out what
color you are. True Colors, a personality system, has been around since 1979 when
Don Lowry modeled it as a graphical presentation of both Keirsey’s Temperament and
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The True Colors descriptions are listed at the end of
this document.
Learn how to:
Discover your unique gifts and talents
Soar with your strengths
Discover your passion
Express your heart and soul in what you do
Increase self-esteem, creating a positive, clear self-image
Become successful in spite of your fears
Do the test at the website: http://www.truecolorscareer.com/quiz.asp
After you have completed the test:
1. What is dominant color (your highest score).
Answer:Blue
NEXT: Open and read the PowerPoint Presentation that is attached to
this assignment.
2. After reading the PowerPoint Presentation: Choose a color that is different
from your dominant color and explain how you would handle the following
situations:
A. Plan a trip to Europe.
Answer: I would structure an itinerary and organize my trip
accordingly in making sure I’m prepared for everything.
B. Diffuse an argument at work with an irate co-worker.
Answer: Be the bigger person and express the bigger picture, lower
my town in making sure my co-worker is focused on what I’m
saying and less focused on their emotions at the moment.
C. Communicate with a supervisor, whose ethnicity is different from
yours, to solve a scheduling problem.

9. Answer: Ethnicity would never be an issue for me I would discuss it
accordingly and make sure we both come down to a middle when it
comes to the scheduling problem.

10. The National Student Success Institute The National Student Success Institute
Section Three: Emotional Intelligence Activity: Tapping into Emotions
Directions: The following are examples adapted from Joshua Freedman's At the Heart
of Leadership: How to Get Results with Emotional Intelligence. He argues that we often
experience emotions in a pattern. For example, similar situations will trigger a type of
response. It will help us, he argues, if we learn to recognize the pattern and to dig
deeper to explore the reasons why we feel the way we do. Then, we should look for the
wisdom in the situation and response; in other words, we should look for a lesson to learn
to improve ourselves.
Using the following "typical" college student examples, reflect on your emotional
reaction to these types of situations and what you think the wisdom, or lesson, is in
each.
1. EMOTION: DISCOMFORT
TYPICAL SITUATION: You walk into a class for the first time and the professor
seems uninterested to teach or uninteresting in general. You suddenly get worried that
you will not enjoy this class—and you have to have it for your degree.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION:I would most probably become
frustrated and worrisome which in itself will probably only make the situation
worst as that only creates negative thinking and feeling.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED:
The lesson to be learned is to be a bit more optimistic and think positive
and make the most of it I do need to pass the class in order to move
forward in my education so I need to make the best out of the situation.

11. 2. EMOTION: ANXIETY/FEAR
TYPICAL SITUATION: You walk into class where the professor explains everything that
you are going to do this semester. He talks about a 15-page research paper, field studies,
and weekly journals. You don't even have access to a computer.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: I will become so stressed out to a point
where I become angry and frustrated with everything else in my life, it will lessen
my patience and tolerance for every other responsibility I have on a daily basis
make everything that much more difficult to handle.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson to be learned is to take everything a
step at a time avoid overwhelming myself as I could be much worst, organize
myself and find a solution as ultimately that is what it will come down to.

12. 3. EMOTION: EXCITEMENT
TYPICAL SITUATION: You find out that you won a scholarship that will pay for books,
tuition, and fees when you transfer to a four-year university next semester. You can't
wait to share the good news with your family because they were having a hard time
helping support you while you were in college.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: I will be utterly exited, I will feel like
ive accomplished one of my goal; succeeding, it will also give me a great
sense of accomplishment in showing my family that I can do it.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson that I learned is that everything
is possible, even though I didn’t have my families support I still succeeded
this will only show me that I should enhance my positivity and knowing
that everything will always turn out for the best that it may not always
seem that way in the beginning but whatever is destined to happen will
happen.

13. 4. EMOTION: JOY
TYPICAL SITUATION: You have taken your last final exam and will be graduating next
week in front of your family, friends, and co-workers—and a few people who thought
you wouldn't make it. You have a job ready and waiting for you in your field of study.
While the pay may not be high, it offers great opportunities for advancement. Your two
children are proud to tell everyone that their mom has a college degree, and you know
that they will be more likely to attend college because you did.
YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS SITUATION: My self-esteem would be sky high I
would feel so happy and accomplished. I would be confident and proud that I
have accomplished my goal and went all the way to the end.
THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED: The lesson learned is that I proved to myself that
I can accomplish anything and everything I put my mind to. It will also show me
that I underestimated myself and that I could do it!