Personality Types

To complement the new understandings available to us from:

- Multiple Intelligences - Habits of the Mind
- Learning Styles - Emotional Intelligence
- Thinking Tools - Adolescent Brain Research
- Generations Y & Z - 21st Century Learners

Knowing both our own and our students’ personality types will add a further dimension to our teaching and create more opportunities for high level student learning; our teaching will be enhanced

There are various techniques to establish a person’s personality type, including the Myer Briggs test.

- a search of the Net will enable access further methods to define personality types
- time spent reading about Personality Types will benefit our understanding of students’ attitudes and
behaviours; it may well assist us in our personal lives also

Peoples’ behaviour and personality types can be categorised into three types and the general characteristics of each type are as follows:

Type A
- preoccupied with getting things done; seldom looks at instructions
- inclined to interrupt during conversations and discussions; not a good listener
- dislikes waiting in queues and becomes agitated
- tend to be impulsive and impatient
- susceptible to distress and health issues related to tension
- appears to be pumped up and energetic most of the time; always in the zone

Type B
- adopts a “no worries, she’ll be right mate” attitude
- not worried by much at all; very few anxieties
- accepts and is happy with their own existence and who they are
- content and not overly ambitious
- experiences very few health issues
- appears to be laid back and casual most of the time and life is a breeze

Type C
- on the surface everything seems to be fine
- stews on and internalises problems; like a duck on a pond, the legs are working overtime under the water while everything looks serene on the surface
- holds in feelings and experiences inner conflict
- seems short and disinterested in conversations and discussion at times
- susceptible to distress and health issues related to tension
- appears to be under control on the outside while actually really turbulent on the inside

All opportunities to understand what makes us and our students feel and do things should be grasped, the benefits for student learning and our teaching will be very apparent.

“I think the thing I keep saying to myself every year is that I want to become a better player at the end of the year than I was at the beginning. If I can keep doing that year after year for the rest of my career, I'll have a pretty good career” Tiger Woods