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........ "Using the Web" Activities     Part 5: Educational Psychology Using the Web: Using Personality and Learning Styles for More Effective Teaching and Learning Overview Determine your personality type and learning style and their associated attributes. Reflect upon the ways in which your particular personality type and learning style influences your teaching style. Finally, you will have an opportunity to synthesize the information you have learned and design a classroom activity that meets the diverse learning style needs of students. Use the following questions and online resources to help you. What is your personality type? Take the Kiersey Character and Temperament Sorter Tests (http://keirsey.com/) or the Psychological Type Indicator Test (http://www.socionics.com/). Describe specific attributes of your particular personality type. If you took the Keirsey tests, visit The Four Temperaments (http://keirsey.com/matrix.html) for additional information. If you participated in the Psychological Type Indicator test, check out TypeLogic (http://www.TypeLogic.com/) for more details about your personality type. What is your learning style? Take the Personal Learning Style Inventory (http://www.howtolearn.com/personal.html). Describe specific attributes of your learning style. Visit Learning Styles (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/2106/ls.html) Identify the ways in which your personality type is related to your learning style. In what ways do you think your personality type and learning style impact your teaching style? Take the Triads Personality Indicator for Educators (http://www.enneagram-edge.com/thetpi.html) Now let's put it all together. Given your particular personality type and learning and teaching styles, what do you think would be your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher? Students of which personality type and learning style will be easiest for you to teach? Which students will be the most challenging? Why do you think so? How can you adapt your teaching style to meet the needs of all students? Design a classroom activity that incorporates all four learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile). Check out Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans (http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~morris/acsi_lp2.html) for thematic units that integrate students' multiple learning styles.      Copyright © 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved.