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.