Personality Types And how they effect your tutoring style PLUS : Defending the SI Model and considering the appropriateness of a teacher centered model.
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Personality Types
And how they effect your tutoring stylePLUS: Defending the SI Model and
considering the appropriateness of a teacher centered model
By: Alex LamonAdapted from: Dr. Mark Pearcy © 2012
James Duplass, Ph.D. University of South Florida
Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Where do you fall?
What is your tutoring style?• For fun: pick up a pen,
and write your name with
the opposite hand you
usually write with
• How does it feel?
• The point: your tutoring
style is connected to
your personality and
learning style. It is
difficult to change.
• How you’ve been
learning to tutor has
greatly effected your
tutoring style
You’ve had a few weeks of tutoring
now…how would you describe your tutoring
style?Do you think, with practice, you could
fluently write with your opposite hand? If you were not at all a collaborative SI Leader, could you change with training
and practice?
Personality Types
1. Does your tutoring style benefit certain students’ personality types?
2. Does the SI Model (student-centered) benefit certain types of personality types that teacher
centered (lecture) style does not?3. Is a lecture model more effective for some
personality types?4. If the answer to number three is yes, should we
always use collaborative techniques?
Introverted/Extroverted
EXTRAVERTED (66% of the population)
• Introverted type has a more inward-looking, reflective orientation.
• They prefer explanation followed by time to reflect
• Introverted students want to develop frameworks that integrate or connect the subject matter
• Explanation, reflection, and then action
• Working privately with time to polish their work
• Listening while privately processing what others are saying
• Studying alone
• Extraverted type is more expressive and more sensitive to the external environment.
• Prefer an interactive approach to learning.
• The majority of undergraduate students are extraverts
• Extraverted students learn by explaining to others
• Extraverted students enjoy working in groups
• Their motto is: Ready, Fire, Aim• Learning by talking or “thinking out
loud” to form their ideas• Making multiple attempts
interspersed with reflection and feedback
• Group leaning, discussions, and studying with friends
INTROVERTED (33% of population)
Sensing/IntuitiveSENSING TYPE (66%
of population)INTUITIVE TYPE (33%
of population)• Tends to grasp the literal
meaning of communications and prefers to begin learning with details and facts in a step-by-step fashion.
• The majority of undergraduates are sensing students.
• Sensing people are detail oriented, want facts, and trust them
• Sensing students prefer organized, linear, and structured lectures.
• Like being detailed and specific
• Looks for patterns and big ideas, relies more on imagination, and likes to learn new skills .
• Almost 83% of national merit scholarship finalists and 92% of Rhodes Scholars were intuitive students
• Intuitive people seek out patterns and relationships among the facts they have gathered.
• The discovery method, or the why method, will appeal to intuitive students
• Rely on insight and inspiration, rather than careful observation
• Freedom to learn on their own and find novel solutions
• Grow tired of topics, want to move on
Thinking/FeelingTHINKING TYPE(66%
of population)FEELING TYPE (33% of
population)• Thinking type prefers learning that
requires logic in decision making, is motivated by ideas, and has a clear preference for the lecture method.
• Like analyzing and examining ideas, search for the perfect solution or truth
• Enjoy well-organized teachers with clear direction and subjects that have logic.
• Thinking students choose to decide things impersonally on analysis, logic, and principle. Thinking students value fairness.
• Thinking students like clear course and topic objectives
• Feeling type prefers learning environments that are social, is motivated by interaction with peers and teachers, and avoids learning situations that may reduce harmony.
• Are motivated by a personal connection with the teacher
• Learning by helping others, studying with a friend, working in a group
• Feedback that shows empathy• Feeling students value harmony.
They focus on human needs as they make decisions or arrive at judgments.
Judging/PerceivingJUDGING TYPE (55%
OF POPULATION)
PERCEIVING TYPE (45% OF
POPULATION)• Judging type tends to prefer
analyzing, decision making, and closure.
• Likes to work in an orderly, formalized way with predicable routines
• Needs to know exactly what they are accountable for
• The majority of undergraduate students are judging students
• Judging people are decisive and self-regimented.
• They focus on completing the task, only want to know the essentials, and take action quickly (perhaps too quickly).
• Perceiving type is more spontaneous, prefers to keep options open, and is generally more flexible in how he or she learns.
• Likes open, unscripted exploration
• Flexibility in assignments• Work that feels more like
play • Perceiving people are curious,
adaptable, and spontaneous.• They start many tasks, want to
know everything about each task, and often find it difficult to complete a task.
Which types of students does our student centered SI model serve?
Implications for your sessions
• Collaborative learning strategies are specifically intended to accommodate the Extraverts
• Because classrooms focus on ideas and progress in an orderly sequence primarily using spoken word and reading material, they are inherently geared to Introverts.
REMEMBER:PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS ARE
NOT CONCRETE NOR DEFINITIVE…THEY ARE MEANT TO
BE OVERALL PORTRAITS THAT INFORM YOUR TUTORING STYLE,
NOT DEFINE IT
SI v. LecturingStudent Centered (SI)
Teacher Centered (Lecture)
• Keeping in mind our personality assessment, what is the benefit of the SI model?
• Is there ever an appropriate time for you to lecture?
• If not all personality types are suited for a collaborative approach, what can be done to accommodate those students?
Thank you!Alex Lamon
Mentee training developed
for the benefit of awesome
SI Leaders.
September 25, 2012.
December 3, 2013.
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