Personality Types and Learning Styles

1. Personality Types and Learning Styles

2. Research in education has shown that if you present information in a manner that matches an individual’s learning style they will absorb the information more quickly and have an easier time transferring it into long-term memory.

3. Unfortunately (or fortunately) your teachers must teach to all four personality types at the same time! There are strategies that you can employ however in order to take charge of your learning. In the next slides we’ll explore the learning styles of each color pathway and strategies that can help you achieve.

4. Red Learning Style Learning Style Characteristics: • Hunger for fun and action • Needs freedom to learn • Is resourceful and free spirited • Likes spontaneity to entertain classmates • Has a short attention span • Needs physical involvement and activity • Thrives on verbal and visual information • Likes competition

5. Blue Learning Styles Learning Style Characteristics: • Hunger for ever-increasing sense of self • Needs acceptance, caring and support • Thrives on recognition • Talented communicator • Enjoys group interactions • Prefers cooperative learning • Needs personal feedback, encouragement, and attention from teachers • Learns best in face to face dialogue

6. Green Learning Styles Learning Style Characteristics: • Hunger for competency • Sits in judgment when viewing progress • Interested in principles and logic, good at inventing, building and architecture • Enjoys developing own ideas • Is filled with intellectual curiosity • Needs constant success experiences • Loves to give structure to the world • Exerts escalating standards on self and others • Self-sufficient and prefers to be an independent learner

7. Yellow Learning Styles Learning Style Characteristics: • Hunger for order • Wants to please teachers • Values responsibility and dependability • Displays good study habits • Likes and needs organization and scheduling • Responds to negative criticism • Expects for rules to be set and students to follow them • Learns from traditional instruction

8. How Reds can Increase their Learning • Reds learn by doing and are movement oriented, therefore to increase your learning create study tools that you can move around with your hands. • These may include flash cards or charts that can be cut apart and reassembled in the correct order • Type or use a word processor. Using a keyboard involves fine motor skills and muscle memory; it may be easier to remember information that you typed or entered into a computer. • Talk and walk as you recite or practice information. Pacing or walking with study materials in hand helps some people process information more naturally. • Work at a chalkboard, with a flip chart, or on a large poster paper to create study tools. List, draw, practice, or write information while you stand up and work on a larger surface.

9. How Blues can Increase their Learning • Create “movies in your mind” of information that you read; use your visual memory as a television screen with the information moving across the screen. • Create rhymes, jingles, or songs to help you remember specific facts. • Talk and read out loud to explain new information, express your ideas, practice information you are studying, or paraphrase another speaker. • Blues work well with others and may prefer studying in groups and crave the opportunity to interact and teach/learn from others.

10. How Greens can Increase their Learning • Greens study best by themselves and may prefer independent projects instead of group activities. • Create study tools such as maps or graphic organizers, comparison charts, timelines, or hierarchies. • For lectures, take your own notes, but back your notes up with a tape recorded version of the lecture. Review only the parts of the lecture that are unclear or confusing. • Handle objects, tools, or machinery that you are trying to learn.

11. How Yellows can Increase their Learning • Create stronger visual memories of printed materials by highlighting important ideas with different colors • Take time to visualize pictures, charts, graphs, or printed information and take time to practice recalling visual memories when you study. • Monitor, schedule and evaluate progress (practice tests) • Color-code study tools. (Different colors imprint into memory more easily for some students.) Colors can be used to accentuate specific parts of textbooks, notes, or any written materials you work with or you have created.

12. Working with Reds • Offer incentives and rewards • Set ground rules and clearly state consequences • Avoid anger, reprimand privately • Allow Reds to work for short periods of time • If possible assign Reds movement or building tasks

13. Working with Blues • Clearly outline your expectations in a friendly and respectful manner, • Attend to positive rather than negative behaviors • Avoid public humiliations and reprimands • Show affection and/or approval • Praise accomplishments

14. Working with Greens • Provide logic behind the rules • Allow them to formulate their own rules or contribute to this process • Keep cool and avoid getting emotional • Avoid sarcasm, labels and ridicule • Maintain personal space • Stay on task, with scheduled breaks

15. Working with Yellows • Praise them for good work • Create an agenda • Criticize them fairly without diminishing their feelings of self worth • Give them tasks in which they can organize and plan • Maintain a neat and orderly work space

16. Knowing what you know now… • Which color will likely work best with Reds? Blues? Greens? Yellows? • Which color(s) waits until the last minute to do an assignment? • Which color(s) go above and beyond expectations? • If you could choose to be another color which would it be and why? • Can you change your personality?