Teacher’s Type Preferences And Teaching Styles

 

 

The MBTI is designed to HELP educators, not act as a prison.

 

• The kinds of activities used to instruct often reflect the teacher’s bias for energy flow: Extraversion’s outward energy flow (using group work, class reports, audiovisual) or Introversion’s inward private reflection (reading, research reports). 

 

• The kinds of questions teachers ask, and the way they ask them, usually reflects their own preferences for Sensing or Intuition.  Sensing teachers are likely to start by asking for facts and details; the answers they want are predictable.  Intuitive teachers are likely to ask for responses that call for synthesis and evaluation. 

 

• Thinking types are likely to offer few comments about student performance, and the ones they do tend to be objective statements.  Feeling teachers use a lot of praise and support, verbally and non-verbally. 

 

• The classrooms of Judging teachers are likely to be orderly, run on time, and follow schedules.  Perceiving teachers tend to permit more movement around the room, more open-ended discussions and more spontaneity.