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Improve education by exploring teaching and learning styles.
Written to help teachers develop more effective strategies for working with their students, this book explores the teaching and learning styles for the sixteen MBTI© personality types. Teachers learn to identify the strengths and limitations of their own styles and are given practical advice on how to reach students whose learning styles differ from their favored teaching method. Also included are specific steps for handling conflict, academic problems, and interpersonal issues as well as suggestions for matching instructional materials and methods to learning styles.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Understanding the Role of Personality in Education
1 Using Personality Theories to Teach and Understand Students
2 The Four Temperaments
3 The Personality Type Preferences
Part 2: Teachers, Teaching Philosophy, Teaching Style
4 Sensing- Judging Guardian Teachers
5 Sensing- Perceiving Artisan Teachers
6 Intuitive- Feeling Idealist Teachers
7 Intuitive- Thinking Rational Teachers
Part 3: Students and Learning Style
8 Sensing- Judging Guardian Students
9 Sensing- Perceiving Artisan Students
10 Intuitive- Feeling Idealist Students
11 Intuitive- Thinking Rational Students
Part 4: Making the Personality Connection
12 Classroom Techniques
13 Books, Homework, and Tests
14 Games and Computers
15 Teaching and Learning Styles in Action
Some Final Thoughts
Afterword
Appendix A: Temperament Needs, Roles, and Archetypes
Appendix B: Temperament/Type Representations in Specific US Populations
Appendix C: Grade and Age Equivalence in the United States
Resources and References
About the Authors
Index
Lisa Fairhurst has been a teacher in public schools, including charter schools, for much of the last 23 years. Although she has taught all subjects at all grade levels, her primary area of interest is math. For the last four years, she has been teaching algebra through pre-calculus at a charter school with a disadvantaged population. Lisa regularly uses her knowledge of personality types in planning lessons and reaching different students. Lisa writes regularly for keirsey.com on subjects ranging from education to relationships to career to general interest. Alice M. Fairhurst, M.S., has spent thirty years as a teacher, counselor, corporate trainer and administrator. She is a well-known expert on personality type and a frequent speaker to professional groups.
”Effective Teaching, Effective Learning is filled with easy-to-implement suggestions.” –Learning
”The knowledge [the authors] share about heir temperament, personality type, and learning styles, culled from their years of teaching experience, makes this a valuable resource for anyone interested in improving our schools. …Teachers, administrators, and parents will gain valuable insights.” –Childhood Education
