Recognizing the different personality types of students can help me to recognize the different needs of students as well as the best ways to fill those needs. It also gives me insights into best instruction practices that will help different students grow and develop in my class.
Each individual (instructor and student) plays different roles in the learning environment. As such, having a better understanding of an individual's traits will allow for individualized teaching and ensure the class meeting progresses in a positive manner.
I had no idea there was so many different types. This is so much new and helpful information
It is challenging to find a happy medium between an Instructor's personality and teaching style and the students who have an assortment of preferred learning styles.
Comment on Mary Ann Cirone's post: I agree that understanding the difference in personality traits can help us identify different learning methods that will help guide and shape different students more effectively. Some may respond to honey and idealistic, whereas, others need to understand the rules and comply.
How interesting to categorize students personal traits using colors. It is useful to understand how each student with various traits can have different and unique learning experience in the class.
I found Jung's work (already familiar through Myers-Briggs) and Kiersey's to be most informative; whereas, the color schemes seemed more convoluted to me.
Understanding personality traits enable good relationships between instructor and students.
I've always been interested in personality traits and functions, but I wasn't aware of some of these or their correlation to each other. This will allow me to speak the language of the different frameworks better to best connect with others.
Understanding student personalities helps to engage them, especially in the online environment. I found it interesting, even though the tests were different, much of the results are similar. For example, many of the result explanations overlap. This is helpful to know when creating a diverse learning environment.
It's interesting to learn about the different theories on personality traits and temperaments and how they relate to each other. I'd like to use these not only with students but also team members and staff to better communicate, empathize and understand one another.
People differ in personality, temperament, and communication style
I have used the Myers Briggs for years in career counseling
Personality traits help predict people's behavior and their development, specifically in the academic area, knowing the behavior patterns of a person, in their role as tutor or student, helps to anticipate and understand how the person teaches or learns , relates and executes actions in favor of their own training and growth.
Personality traits and learning styles are so intertwined with each other that personality shapes an important aspect of learning style.
I learned that in a classroom, you can have all different types of personalities, each with their own attributes and learning styles that works best for them.
I have learned about most of these before, but have not until now seen them combined in the True COlor profiling system. Color me intrigued!
It was interesting to consider the different personalities encountered in a learning environment. This is something that actively effects my everyday in person instruction and my online instruction as well.
I believe I could use this knowledge to better understand my students as individuals and what their motivators might be intrinsically. It may also help to group students in ways where their personality traits could support each other.
Pretty fascinating stuff - demonstrating again that human beings like to catalog people into slots they can relate to, giving people labels. Of the 4 models, I've only heard of MTBI.
