By understanding your own personality ,it will help you understand how you are coming across to the students in class. Also by spending the time to get to know your student's personalities and preferred learning styles you can develop assignments that have more than one option to submit their findings. If you enjoy what you are teaching, the students will probably get more of your lectures.
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I learned how much dominant blue personalities need to be of service to others so they would be more likely to actively participate in and enjoy peer review.
As instructors, we can learn the various learning styles students have and then incorporate various activities that align with their natural learning and personality traits to ensure individual success in the learning process.
Staying organized in the classroom will help when offering multiple learning options for the different learner personalities.
The fact that instructor personality traits may or may not naturally fit the traits of a successful instructor, is really good to know and makes a lot of sense when comparing instructors who do or do not implement active learning techniques more naturally as well. Active learning techniques parallel a lot with the needs of all the TCs. It incorporates and encourages student Commnication (for high Blue), enforced and detailed rubrics (for high Gold), challenging learning situations instead of rote memorization and lecture (for high Green) and can also incorporate more flexibility for (high Orange).
Helpful to better understand to apply to how students learn
When learning activities are planned, it is recommended that the tutor take into consideration the types and personality traits of the students, knowing how they learn and how students interact with knowledge and their peers will promote academic success.
instructor practices linked with student perception of relational characteristics and pedagogical characteristics appeared to be most related to student perceptions of instructor support. This suggests that instructors should attend to the way they interact with students and how they are conveying support via their instruction.
It's important to give students the opportunity to grow self-confidence by allowing them to do things that best suit their personality traits without straying from the learning objective
It is so important to make a connection to the students personality traits. They need to feel like valued members of the learning community.
I like the survey to post in my Introductory announcements forum to take the place of a personality trait test.
This whole course was very informative and I learn a lot about myself as well as my students. I will definitely take what I have learned and incorporate it in my teaching.
Trying to incorporate assessments that can fit the varied personality types will lead to high-esteem and better performance/
This has been a good learning platform. I have gained some valuable knowledge and understand how and why some studetns are successful and some are not. Learning styles , true colrs and personality traits are all connected and helps promote a good learning environment. Instructors have a role to play in educating students, and leaarning about the personality traits will help guide us through and also help the student succeed which is th eultimate goal.
Creating a well-rounded and thoughtful course touching the needs of each of the student types is certainly the first step in the process. How students complete early projects is an indicator in itself of the type of student and how to help them excel in future assignemnts.
I learned that we, as instructors, need to know the different types of personality traits that our students will have. This way we can better understand them and do better as a instructors.
An interesting review and discussion on personality traits for consideration.
While completing this module I aknowledge the importance in identifing traits both in us as instructors as of students, in order to be more assertive in the design, implementation and evaluaion of a course.
One thing that I have taken from this module is to be open and creative when creating project assignments that will meet the content objectives. Allowing varying assignments that meet the needs of the different colors is how we can make the online course engaging and exciting for the online learner.
