Excellence in Teaching: Improve your Teaching by Understanding Learning Style and Personality Types Dr. Marsha Fralick

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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

Carl Jung 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 _____________________________|___________________________ N Sensing 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: 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

College Success 1 Resources for faculty and students // Click on Conferences

What is Something you learned? Something you found useful?