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A Teacher's Guide to Cognitive Type Theory & Learning Style
Explains the theory of psychological type preferences developed by Carl Jung and discusses the importance of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in identifying people's learning style, specifically their preferences for extraversion, introversion, sensing, intuition, thinking, feeling, judging, and perceiving.
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132 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1996
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July 6, 2020
First, I have to acknowledge that this book was published in the mid-1990s, and so some of the approaches or ways that things were written reflect that time. For example, how articles from journals such as Education Leadership were published as standalone chapters.
With that said, it was a decent buck for understanding the origins of differentiated instruction. It’s offered an approach to differentiation through using the Myers-Briggs personality test. Characteristics and implications/considerations with each personality or psychological type was defined. I found out to be very helpful, especially with understanding the difference between sensing and feeling, within an academic context.
One thing I did not find useful about it, which goes back to understanding in the context of the time it was written, is the full investment into reducing instructional practices or teacher disciplines to a single combination of characteristics.
What I do plan on using my knowledge from reading this book in the future, is more focused observations of students in the beginning of the year. What I plan to do is observe for a pair of characteristics with my students, so that in for class. I can have a more focused understanding of who my students are based off of observation. What I may do following that is implement a Myers-Briggs test and have them confirm with me whether or not I had been observing accurately or not.
With that said, it was a decent buck for understanding the origins of differentiated instruction. It’s offered an approach to differentiation through using the Myers-Briggs personality test. Characteristics and implications/considerations with each personality or psychological type was defined. I found out to be very helpful, especially with understanding the difference between sensing and feeling, within an academic context.
One thing I did not find useful about it, which goes back to understanding in the context of the time it was written, is the full investment into reducing instructional practices or teacher disciplines to a single combination of characteristics.
What I do plan on using my knowledge from reading this book in the future, is more focused observations of students in the beginning of the year. What I plan to do is observe for a pair of characteristics with my students, so that in for class. I can have a more focused understanding of who my students are based off of observation. What I may do following that is implement a Myers-Briggs test and have them confirm with me whether or not I had been observing accurately or not.
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