Bacal & Associates - Helping People Solve Conflict for Two Decades
Personality
And Learning Styles: Learn how differing personality and learning styles
can cause conflict between student and teacher and among students themselves.
Understanding how people learn can reduce conflict in the classroom or on-the-job
site. Teaching several people at the same time with different learning styles
can be challenging. We offer you insight into each of the accepted learning
styles and the relationship between personality.
By Linda Berens
- I first became aware of a potential bias problem at the APT conference in Phoenix when I went to a session that grouped people by functional pairs. In the ST group there was one person, ISTJ, and in the SF group there were two people, both ISFJ. As I listened to the report outs from these two groups, I noticed the influence of the Guardian temperament theme as well as their preferences for Sensing and Feeling processes
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By Susan Scanlon
- n the book, People Types and Tiger Stripes: A Practical Guide to Learning Styles, Gordon Lawrence recommends that teachers approach curriculum planning with the four "quadrants" in mind,
(ES, IS, EN, IN). According to Lawrence, the first two letters in a person's type have the most to do with how they take in new information.
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By Linda Berens
- How then, can we accurately help individuals find their "true type?" The answer lies not in any one instrument such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® or the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, but in the appropriate use of these instruments
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By Linda Burrs
- The Firo-Element B® is an inventory based on a theory designed around how people interact. Dr. Will Schutz introduced his theory of interpersonal relations (FIRO) based on the behavioral desires for inclusion, control and openness. (Openness was formerly known as affection.) The original Firo-B instrument has evolved over the years as a result of expanded research, which has strengthened the validity of the instrument.
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By W. J. McKeachie
- In the last 30 or 40 years, a number of educators have proposed that teaching would be more effective if faculty members took account of differences in students' learning styles. A number of different conceptions of learning styles have been proposed, each with some plausibility.
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