Interprofessional Education
learning WITH other professionals

learning WITH other professionals - You

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Let’s start with you....

 

 

Before we can really think about working with others, lets think about who we are as individuals.

 

 

learning WITH other professionals - Learning Style

 

 

This quiz may help you to answer the questions below, or you may (after many years in school) have developed your own understanding of how you learn.

Have you ever thought about your learning style ?

find out what yours is!

 

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How do you learn ? What is your learning style?

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Did the quiz tell you something different than you thought? or something new?

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How will you (or have you) adjusted your approach to working in groups to accommodate your learning style?

 

 

 

 

learning WITH other professionals - Personality Profile

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Have you ever done  a personality profile? 

 

Try one.

 

What does this tell you about yourself and how you work or who you are as a person?

As much as we all like to think of ourselves as autonomous individuals, it is possible to describe people by personality type and learning style. In any group there will be a variety of personality types and learning styles, a group of professionals is no exception.

 

1.

What is your personality type?

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Did the quiz tell you something different than you thought? or something new?

3.

How do you think your profession of choice has been shaped by your personality type?

 

learning WITH other professionals - Groups

 

 

Now that we know little bit about who you are and how you learn, let’s look at your experience in teams and the ideas that you have about teams. Many of us have had terrible experiences with ’group work’ by the time we begin our professional programme.  Interprofessional education is NOT the group social sciences project from grade 10!

 

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Have you worked in teams before?

Describe a time you have worked in a team.

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What was good about the experience?

What was challenging about it?

3.

Have you been on athletic teams before? How was this similar or different to a work team? What did you learn that can be applied to a work team?

good teams are..... good teams do....

1.Good teams always have one strong leader.
True     False
2.Good teams always meet regularly with predetermined goals and objectives from which they do not stray.
True     False
3.Conflict in a team is destructive and must be avoided.
True     False
4.Team work can be fun.
True     False