Most students and adults struggle to fully understand and recognize who they really are. What are their strengths and their weaknesses? What are their personality styles? Most importantly, how might this personality style affect their futures, their careers, their communities and nearly every aspect of their lives? What are the personality styles of others and how can that information be useful? This unit will allow students to identify the personality styles of others as well as themselves. They will recognize the strengths and challenges of each style and understand how to deal with them. They will take a look at how these personality styles affect their career selections. Students will explore the for-profit and non profit career sectors and find out how being personally involved in philanthropic ventures benefits them, their communities, the economy and the world.

The learner will:

• describe how character is developed through interpretation of the poem Watch My Thoughts.
• determine his/her personality style and identify careers that seem to best fit.
• identify the profit, non-profit and government sectors of the economy and analyze why nonprofits are important to the economy.
• create an Affinity Chart distinguishing between careers in three sectors of the economy.
• compare and contrast personality traits and character traits.
• define the character traits of respect, responsibility, honesty and self-motivation and explain why they are important for any personality type or job.
• define characteristics of not-for-profit organizations and research the work of local not-for-profit organizations in the community.
• reflect on a career and the role of young persons in philanthropy.

An essay with rubric, teacher observation, completion of a data page, a written reflection and class participation will be used to evaluate learning.

In the first lesson, sixteen personality types are identified. Based on the characteristics of the learners, it is not necessary to introduce them all for use in the lesson.