The Myers­Briggs and Learning Styles

Extroverted Students | Sensing Students | Introverted Students | Intuitive Students
Thinking Students | Judging Students | Feeling Students | Perceptive Students

Extroverted Students
  1. Pick up ideas from "outside"
  2. Do their best thinking "with their mouths open"
  3. Talk about half formed ideas with ease
  4. Need lots of action and variety
  5. Skip from project to project
  6. Learn by trial and error
  7. Make, move and produce
  8. Pursue many projects at once
  9. Can dominate a class
 Teachers help extroverts by asking them to think before they talk, setting clear directions and limits, and showing how concepts and ideas can be used in "real life".
Sensing Students
  1. Learn by seeing, touching, tasting and handling
  2. Follow step­by­step instructions without skipping any steps (particularly when working on a new project)
  3. Prefer a classroom with a few choices
  4. Want to know how something happens, works, etc.
  5. Learn by becoming familiar with an idea, concept or "thing"
  6. Comfortable with concrete topics
 Teachers can help sensing types by arranging for them to have concrete learning experiences and clear instructions, realizing that these students have a hard time with symbols (math) and word problems, and allowing S's lots of practice time.
(Potential High Risk) Introverted Students
  1. Pick up ideas "internally"
  2. Do their best thinking by themselves
  3. Talk only when they have carefully thought out what they will say
  4. Need a lot of quiet time
  5. Learn a great deal about a few things
  6. Learn by testing ideas in their minds
  7. Work with definitions, lists, rules, and theories (if S's)
 Teachers help introverts by presenting abstract ideas first then talking about applications, giving I's enough time to think about an issue or a question before asking them to respond and checking frequently to find out what is going on inside an I's head.
Intuitive Students
  1. Respond to anything that stimulates their imagination
  2. Follow inspiration, skip steps and go wherever their imagination takes them
  3. Prefer a wide range of classroom options
  4. Want to know why something happens, works, etc.
  5. Learn by insight
  6. "Fill in the blanks" tendency
  7. Prefer essay type tests
  8. Comfortable with abstract topics
 Teachers help intuitive types by arranging learning situations where N's can use their imagination, but N's also need to learn how to channel their inspiration and explain their thought processes.
Thinking Students
  1. Use reason and logic to make sense out of the world
  2. Make decisions based on logical consequences
  3. Become high achievers in school if they are channeled properly
  4. Value the last word in any argument or discussion
  5. Prefer to work alone
  6. Function best when challenged intellectually
  
Judging Students
  1. Prefer to work in a structured situation
  2. Want to know what the rules are "up front"
  3. Respond well to progress charts, records, ceremonies, etc.
  4. Want to finish whatever they start
  5. May decide they are "finished" before they really are (early closure)
 Teachers help judging types by providing structure, an orderly sequence of studies, clearly stated rules, and rewards related to these rules.
Feeling Students
  1. Use their feelings to make sense out of the world
  2. Make decisions based on their personal value system or the personal value systems of people who are important to them
  3. Become popular and appreciated if handled properly
  4. Value harmony and agreement
  5. Prefer to work in groups
  6. Function best when they feel appreciated
 Teachers help feeling types by letting these students know that someone appreciates their work, allowing them to work in groups where they can help other students, maintaining harmony in the home and in the classroom, and realizing that F­types need friends.
Perceptive Students
  1. Value variety and change in their lives
  2. Prefer to work in situations where they have chosen the task, the system and the rules
  3. Do not respond well to charts, records, ceremonies, etc.
  4. Follow their curiosity wherever it takes them, even if they never finish anything
  5. Tend to achieve closure with great difficulty
 Teachers help perceptive types by providing variety, novelty and change within the context of school and family goals; making the classroom more flexible; and allowing P's to follow their curiosity, be spontaneous and choose some of the activities in which they participate and the rules by which they live.