Excellence in Teaching:Improve your Teaching by Understanding Learning Style and Personality Types

Dr. Marsha Fralick

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Overview Overview

• Personality type– How does it affect teaching and

learning?– Exercises– Learn about yourself and the different

types of learners in your classes– How can you help your students?

• Learning style– Including all learners

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• We are born with natural preferences which we develop over a lifetime.

• There are no good or bad types.• Each type has their own unique gifts

and talents.• Exercise: What is a preference?

Begin Self-Assessment

How we interact with the world and where we place our energy

E_____________________________|____________________________I Extraversion Introversion

Introvert or Extravert

• How does it affect teaching?• How does it affect learning?

Talkers and Listeners

Talker

• How do I know that I am a talker?

• How can I develop my listening skills?

• How can I help listeners talk more?

Listener

• How do I know that I am a listener?

• How can I develop my talking skills?

• How can I help talkers listen more?

Self-Assessment

The kind of information we naturally notice and remember

S_____________________________|___________________________NSensing Intuition

By Ian Jackson

Sensing or Intuitive

• How does it affect teaching?

• How does it affect learning?

• Do your assignments fit both types?

Self-Assessment

How we make decisions

T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling

Thinking or Feeling

• How does it affect teaching?• How does it affect learning?

How can you meet the needs of both feeling and thinking types in your classroom?

Self-Assessment

Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way

J_____________________________|_____________________________P Judging Perceiving

Judging or Perceptive

• Remember judging is orderly and organized

• Perceptive is spontaneous and go with the flow

• How does it affect teaching?• How does it affect learning?

J and P Exercise:J and P Exercise:

• Where do you stand?

– I can play anytime

– I have to finish my work before I play

The Learning Style Quiz

• Audio• Visual• Kinesthetic• Other factors

– Light– Temperature– Time of Day– Alone/Group– Structure– Motivation

Learning Style

The Paper Airplane Exercise

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