RE 191

Entry Paper Work Sheet

Name: Trevor Orginski
Date: 9/14/15
Minor or electives or cluster minor: None (Double major OLRM and Economics)
Semester and year you declared this major: Fall 2015 of Sophomore Year
Anticipated Graduation date: 2018
Content Development: Answer the following question as thoughtfully from your current
perspective.
1. What do you see as your current strengths as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and
Management (OLRM) major? I think my strengths as an ORLM major is my ability to work and
lead groups of people or youth. I believe I am pretty easy to get along with and collaborative
with the group I am working with. I think the strongest groups are able to bring out each
individual strengths to support the group as a whole.

2. What do you see as your current challenges (weakness) as an OLRM major?

I have pretty limited Outdoor experience so I think a challenge for myself will be the outdoor
skills, but I am very eager to learn!

3. What will you do in the future to improve OLRM skills?

I plan on not missing a single class, I am paying a lot of money for my education and I intend on
getting my moneys worth. Also, just by showing up with an open mind willing to learn and
work in different ways.

4. In what OLRM areas would you most like to improve?

I what like to improve my outdoor hands-on skills the most as well as my overall knowledge
about the natural environment.

5. A. Identify what you believe to be your present competency level in each of the following
academic skills: Rate yourself on a scale of 1 10; 1 being week 10 being strong. Then list
examples.
Outdoor Skills (technical skills sets evolving aspects of adventure activities) 4
Human Skills (the ability to work with others as a leader/ group member
/communicator)8
Educational Skills (the ability to teach, facilitate, and motivate others increasing their
knowledge base in OLRM related topics) 6

B. Rate yourself on the following cognitive abilities: (same scale)

1. Critical/analytical thinking:7
2. Clear reasoning/understanding:7
3. Mathematical skills-6
4. Scientific [id the type of science(s)]: 4
5. Analogical (ability to discern similarities in some respects between things otherwise
unlike): 6
6. Metaphorical (ability to compare using a word or phrase associated with one thing to
apply

to another - e.g. "all the world's a stage"):6

7. Creative thinking: 7

8. The ability to speak with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline:6

9. The ability to read with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline:7
10. The ability to write with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline: 7
11. The ability to comprehend the literature in or about the discipline: 8
12. The ability to comment articulately concerning the literature in or about the discipline
7
RE 291 A. List at least three (3) different types of employment available to a graduate with a
degree in Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management.
1. Adventure activity guide (white water kayaking, hiking, ropes course etc.
2. Natural Interpreter
3. Eco-tourism guide