Personality Types And how they effect your tutoring style PLUS : Defending the SI Model and considering the appropriateness of a teacher centered model.

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.