Personal dimension

key points

Identifying and understanding your values is a challenging and important exercise. Your personal values are a central part of who you are – and who you want to be. By becoming more aware of these important factors in your life, you can use them as a guide to make the best choice in any situation.

Some of life's decisions are really about determining what you value most, what you care about. When many options seem reasonable, it's helpful and comforting to rely on your values – and use them as a strong guiding force to point you in the right direction.

All of this needs to be thought in the context of teaching with technology :-)

ACTIVITY 1

Choose your top values

1. Choose 4 to 6 values that you feel identified with from the list or write your own. As you work through, you may find that some of these naturally combine. For instance, if you value philanthropy, community, and generosity, you might say that service to others is one of your top values. Check your top-priority values, and make sure that they fit with your life and your vision for yourself and your professionalism.

2. In addition think about functional diversity, how do you position yourself around that? Do you feel prepared to dealing with functional diverse students? Do you have any particular fear, doubt or concern you would like to share?

3. Once you have selected your top values and gathered your thoughts on your positionality regarding functional diversity, go to this jamboard (slide 2) to share with the group.

4. Do these values represent things you would support, even if your choice isn't popular, and it puts you in the minority?

Once this activity is finished click on the pedagical dimension tile. The dimension tab can be found in the main bar at the top of the page