As educators we are tasked to design a delivery model that works for all learning personalities. This requires expertise in understanding personality traits in a meaningful way. While the ideal situation would include personality trait assessments for both educators and learners, in reality, we must rely on more practical interventions such as ensuring that we engage students in the learning process in a way that allows for each to leverage their personal strengths.
i.e. “students who possess blue personality traits like to help others, so group activities can help meet the needs of multiple student color types. Group projects that are well organized help gold students show leadership and get the job done well, and give blue students a chance to be cooperative rather than competitive. When group projects are designed to be active and entertaining, yet flexible, orange students thrive. If group projects are appropriately designed, green students can be challenged as greens see knowledge as power.”
As a personal preference, I provide learners with several choices for approaching most of my course activities. My goal is to get them to meet the learning objective. How they get there is their choice. I find this to work well in most situations.
