Myers-Brigg Personality Test Put all books on shelves below desk Put all backpacks at the back.

Myers-Brigg Personality Test

Put all books on shelves below desk Put all backpacks at the back

Minds-On: Quiz Name:

•What are your personality traits? Extravert/Introvert? Sensing/Intuitive? Thinking/Feeling? Judging/Perceiving?

• In one phrase, what do each of the above traits mean?

•When in a school environment might you find being aware of your traits useful?

Understanding Preference -- Writing Name

• Begin the interpretation by helping students understand the concept of preference.  According to Carl Jung’s theory, preference is inborn.  It is our preferred way to interact with the world.  Use this brief exercise to demonstrate how preference works:

• Ask students to sign their name on a sheet of paper.  Ask how it felt.  Most say it is easy and comfortable.  Next challenge students to sign their name with their non-dominant hand.  Ask how this felt.  Most can do it, but it is awkward and a little challenging.  It requires a little extra thought to do it. 

• Ask students, “With which hand do you reach for the pen?”  This is an example of inborn preference.  If students are aware of their preferences and choose their careers with these preferences in mind, they are more likely to be good at their jobs and enjoy them more.  If students choose careers that do not match their preferences, they can do the job, but are more likely to experience stress at work. 

Introvert and Extravert

Extravert to Introvert

Kaleb 1

josh p

olivia

lauren

abbey 2

peter

jacob

marshall

Mac 3

stephanie

ann

maddy

Nick 4

cody

spencer

Darby 5

josh b

marina

Madison 6

erin

kaytlin

morgan

Sort class from most extroverted to half-and-half to most introverted

Scenario:

• Each team needs to have at least one observer • You work for a local gym. You and three of your work colleagues are

invited to go to the Toronto Convention Centre to a fitness equipment trade show for three days, all expenses paid (Friday, Saturday, Sunday.) The company will pay for a five-star hotel, food and trade show admission. You will be responsible for all entertainment. They want you to have a good time with your colleagues and come home with great ideas as to how to improve your gym.

• As a group, you have six minutes to plan what hotel you want to stay in and what you want to do for the weekend after attending the trade show: food, entertainment.

• Share your conclusions

Introvert and Extravert like groups

• Extraverts: What are the advantages of working with an extravert?

• Introverts: What are the advantages of working with an introvert?

• Combinations: What are the advantages of working with a combination type?

• All: What work environment allows you to be most effective?

Judging and Perceiving

Judging to Perceiving

Nick 1madisonmarshalldarbylauren

Erin 2morgankaytlinolivia

Mac 3marinacody

Kaleb 4abbey peterstephanie

josh b 5josh pmaddy

Jacob 6spencerann

Sort class from most juding to half-and-half to most perceiving

Judging and Perceiving

Review

• Perceivers: being flexible and spontaneous • Judgers: being orderly and organized

• NOTE: one is not better than the other

Judging and Perceiving

We want to understand the gifts and talents of each type.

• Perceivers: What are five benefits to being a perceiver?

• Judgers: What are five benefits to being a judger?

• Combinations: What are five benefits to being a combination type?

Perceivers

• Are able to deal with emergencies and adapt to change. This is important for survival in today’s rapidly changing world.

• Are able to relax and enjoy themselves. They often come up with fun ideas.

• Want to look at all the possibilities before they decide. Something better may come along.

Judgers

• Reach their goals.

• Organize their time and are naturally good at time management.

• Relax once things are organized and under control.

• Can make decisions quickly

Combination Type: Judger and Perceiver

• These types have the best of both worlds. They can get things done when needed.

• They can put aside the work and have fun.

• They can “go with the flow,” or organize themselves.

J and P Exercise: Design a House with M&M's

J and P Exercise: Design a House with M&M's

•What was the process you used for building your house?

•How does it relate to your personality type?

Perceivers:

• The P's jump in and just make a house. The houses are often round and have fun amenities such as a spa.

Judgers:

• The J's often go about this task in an orderly fashion by sorting the M&M's by color and building a square house.

Sensing and Intuition

Sensing to Intuitive

josh p 1spencerjacob

Erin 2oliviamaddymarshall

Darby 3kaytlinmorganmarina

Nick 4codymac

Madison 5stephanieannpeterkaleb

josh b 6abbey lauren

Sensing and Intuition: Show a Picture

Appoint one member in each group as the recorder and one as the spokesperson. Show the picture for 20 seconds.

“What do you see?” Give the groups 3-5 minutes to write an answer to this question and then have the reporter from each group read their responses.

“What did you see?”

Give the groups 3-5 minutes to write an answer to this question and then have the reporter from each group read their responses.

Here are examples of what sensing students wrote:

The first thing I notice in this picture is a beautiful red and black butterfly. With another glance I see a large, menacing bug with wings. Snails and spiders also blend into the background filled with lovely green leaves and flowers. It is a garden bursting at the seams with lush vegetation and giant insects.

sensing

Share with the class what you wrote.

Here are examples of what intuitive students wrote:    

It is a dragonfly going through the virgin forest. The butterfly is coming to relax upon the evergreen lily leaf. The virgin forest is really the world of the insects—a world that is encompassed by man. Yet this world is around our porch, in the grass and in the hills, but we do not see it. It is the world of the insects. It is their virgin forest.

intuitive

Share with the class what you wrote

So…………………

How are Sensing and Intuitive people different in the way they express themselves????

Thinking/Feeling

• Separate to the two different sides of the room

Thinking to Feeling

Nick 1jacoberinmac

Marina 2josh bcodykalebdarby

Morgan 3josh pkaytlinannabbey

Madison 4peterspencer

Madison 5peterspencer

Marshall 6lauren

Two people go to hall skip if short on time

• An extravert with a preference for thinking (Kaleb Mac or Nick)

• An extravert with a preference for feeling (Lauren Olivia or Marshall)

• Give volunteers interview questions

Two people go to hall

• An extravert with a preference for thinking • An extravert with a preference for feeling

• Ask the class to listen carefully to the responses and to find out how thinking and feeling types are different.

Interview Questions

1. Describe Eden High School to a total stranger

2. Tell about a movie you saw lately

Little League

•You are coaches for a little league team. •The team is going out of town for an important game, but you only have enough money to pay for 15 out of the 21 players.

•How do you decide who goes? •5 minutes, then report

• Thinking types make decisions based on logic.

• Feeling types makes decisions based on their personal values.

Review

Looking at the following slides, review how these traits can be useful to you as a leader, in an

office, in school??????

Extraverts work best if they can:• interact in small groups• talk about their ideas to think

them through

Introverts work best if they can:• read lessons before or write

them out before discussion• have an opportunity to reflect

and think before responding

Sensors work best if they can:• use practical applications• view films, videos, audio visuals;

have hands-on exercises

Intuitives work best if they can:• see global patterns, possibilities,

big picture• use their imaginations and

create new ideas

Thinkers work best when they can:• analyze problems logically• make fair and objective criteria

Feelers work best if they can:• Find work that is personally

meaningful• Work in a friendly work

environment

Judgers work best if they can:• Work in a predicable

environment• Bring things to closure; make

decisions

Perceivers work best if they can:• Work in flexible and changing

environment which allow for spontaneity

Exit Card

•Go back to your “Minds-on” quiz and fix and any answer which you now understand better.

•Hand in

Discussion

•What did you learn today that you didn’t know before?

•What activity did you like the best today? Why?

•Did you find working with people who are like you made things easier or more difficult?