As established by Dr. Keirsey in his book Please Understand Me II, the four disparate personality types along with their sub categorized profiles can cause stress and strain when interacting with one another. This strain is only exponentially heightened in a teaching situation since it demands such close and intense proximity of two individuals. Because of these strains, it is essential for a teacher to understand not only their own personality type, but to become intimate with the various profiles to help them better educate their students. Through understanding a teacher can then best create the optimal lesson planned tailored to each student's individual strengths and weaknesses in the most amicable manner possible.
In my own experiences as a teacher, I have noticed the kind of strife that can occur when I do not adapt to the student’s temperament. As a rational, and more specifically as a Mmastermind profile, relating to the emotions of others can be difficult. Children naturally are ruled by emotion and desire and learning to except and work with this has been a great struggle of mine. Learning and accepting that most students will not be like you or learn in the same way as you are critical to understand as an educator, but this seemingly obvious fact appears to be overlooked by most instructors. This is not only a disservice to the child, but also prevents the teacher from growing through their experiences with different types of learning modalities and styles.
In the following posts we will explore the four personality types and strategies and methods for developing pedagogical tools to best match each type as well as provide specific examples of each type and methods that have worked in various situations.
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