Author: Indira Samuels
Are Personality Traits the Key to Unlocking...
Are Personality Traits the Key to Unlocking Your Students Learning Potential?
In schools throughout the country, many educators are trying to find ways to adjust their pedagogical practices in a way that addresses all their students’. To do this, teachers have to find ways to gauge and understand the way that each of their students learns adjust their lesson plans to address varying students’ needs.
How Can Teachers Figure out How Their Students Learn?
One way is with personality tests. Not the fun tests one can take on Facebook to see which TV character you’ re most like, but the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ®( MBTI ®). This test uses a comprehensive list of questions, weighed with different metrics to produce results.
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test is broken into 4 attribute spectrums:
• Introversion / Extraversion
• Intuition / Sensing
• Feeling / Thinking
• Judging / Perceiving
For a more comprehensive description each of the attribute and the test, click here.
The test is a series of yes or no questions that assess how one would react in certain situations, such as comfort level in crowds or work-
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