I have developed the following Self-Assessment tool for life-long learners of all ages, backgrounds, and educational attainment levels. This assessment tool is strengths-oriented and is based in large part on Dennis Saleebey's Possibility Questions from his scholarly works on the Strengths Perspective. I have amended and added several questions that apply to those of us who want to learn for the rest of our lives. This assessment focuses on evoking and utilizing your many internal, personal, and social resources in order to attain your self-determined personal learning goals. My most sincere wish is that this personal enrichment tool will help you along your life-long learning journey.
Assessing your Strengths:
Possibility Questions for Life-Long Learners
Overall Life-Long Learning Goals:
What do you want out of your life-long learning experience?
What do you want to learn within your lifetime?
Which academic or career paths support your life-long learning
goals?
Which non-product oriented, interest-driven goals would you
like to pursue?
Short-Term Learning Goals:
Which subjects, skills, or academic disciplines do you want
to learn about in the next six months? Within the next year? Within the next 5
years?
Long-Term Learning Goals:
Which subjects, skills, or academic disciplines would you
like to learn about across your lifespan?
Vision for the Future:
What are your hopes, visions, and aspirations?
Pragmatic Steps and Current Progress:
What are some immediate learning goals that you have?
What would it take to achieve your goals?
How far along are you toward achieving these?
Personal Strengths and Resources:
What personal qualities are helping you in the process of
achieving your life-long learning goals?
What are your special talents and abilities?
What fantasies and dreams have given you special hope and
guidance?
How can you use your personal strengths, talents/abilities,
and dreams to support your learning process and the achievement of your
life-long learning goals?
In what ways can you empower yourself to recover and
activate those special abilities and motivations that you have had in the
past?
Social Supports:
Are there people in your life (parents, counselors, friends,
instructors, etc.) that support your pursuit of your life-long learning goals?
If so, how have these “life-long learning allies” helped you
in your pursuit of your learning goals, academic or otherwise?
How have they helped you discover recover and activate those
special abilities and motivations that you have had in the past?
References
Saleebey, D. (2002). Strengths
Perspective in Social Work Practice (3rd ed.) University of
Kansas, NY: Allyn & Bacon.
[Adaption, Reformatting, and Addition of Questions by Sarah Johnson.]
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