Choosing a career that best suits your personality and aptitude can be a daunting task but brain profiling is useful in helping pupils determine if they are left brain or right brain thinkers.
People who are left brain thinkers generally excel in mathematics, reading, spelling, formulas and logic. Right hand thinkers on the other hand think more intuitively, creatively and analytical.
Determining which side of the brain you use more is crucial to knowing which career option is best suited to you.
In Namibia, many private entities including the Michelle McLean Children’s Trust are offering brain profiling in an effort to give career guidance that will eventually result in better job satisfaction when pupils are eventually employed or self-employed in careers that are tailored to them.
Brain profiling helps to guide pupils to make choices around what courses to take or what type of careers to get into. This ultimately helps them get into a career that they will excel at and enjoy doing instead of being stuck in a job that makes them miserable.
For three years, the Michelle McLean Children’s Trust has been offering these unique tests to pupils who wish to understand their brains. Explaining the uses and benefits of what has now become a world-wide phenomena, Michelle Visser from the Trust says that pupils will not regret taking the test.
“We offer the test to pupils in Grade 10, helping them make the best decision on what subject choices to make for their final years of high school,” she said. She warned that a failure to do so will lead to pupils being stuck with subjects they have no passion for.
“I was one of those who made the same mistake of taking subjects just for the sake of it when I was in matric. When I started working for the Michelle McLean Children’s Trust, I took the test and this has helped me a whole lot,” she said.
The Michelle McLean Children Trust is doing so much more in developing the Namibian education sector. Extra classes are offered to high school pupils, as well as an intensive Spring school that helps pupils prepare for their Grade 12 final examinations.
