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I understand what they are trying to get across in this module; however, I'm struggling to figure out how to please every student in some standardized way. Especially students that I will probably never even see in person. 

 

As educators we are tasked to design a delivery model that works for all learning personalities. This requires expertise in understanding personality traits in a meaningful way.  While the ideal situation would include personality trait assessments for both educators and learners, in reality, we must rely on more practical interventions such as ensuring that we engage students in the learning process in a way that allows for each to leverage their personal strengths.  

i.e. “students who possess blue personality traits like to help others, so group activities can help meet the needs of multiple student color types. Group projects that are well organized help gold students show leadership and get the job done well, and give blue students a chance to be cooperative rather than competitive. When group projects are designed to be active and entertaining, yet flexible, orange students thrive. If group projects are appropriately designed, green students can be challenged as greens see knowledge as power.”

As a personal preference, I provide learners with several choices for approaching most of my course activities. My goal is to get them to meet the learning objective. How they get there is their choice.  I find this to work well in most situations.

Providing differing options for the same assignment was something I always liked because I felt like I had a choice and wasn't just being told what to do.

 

Understanding your students personality traits is very important in the online learning.  Also instructors should know thier own personality traits.Flexability is key as well.

 

Understanding different learning styles can help in lesson planning.   Gving students options will give them more self confidence in their learning and will motivate them to continue to learn.

 

This portion of the course has impressed upon me to work on varying forms of assessment.  We have made great progress of adapting to how to enable students to learn, but the concept of also providing options for assessment that students may refer due to their personality traits is the logical next step in progression.

This module has helped me see the importance of offering different options for projects/class activities.

 

One should take advantage of the different personalitiy types to get the most sucessful learning outcomes from students. 

It's helpful for instructors in a small class to understand how each student is different and how each student learns based on their pesronaliyt.

 

Different teaching styles combined with students personalities can make the learning process for teachers and students more efficient.

Incorporating a variety of teaching methods and providing options for how to complete assignments is more engage and effective pedagogical method.

 

The instructor will often have a different TC profile than at least some of their students, which is why it is important to be flexible in their teaching styles/techniques.

 

Understanding your students personality traits is very important in the online learning process.  Also instructors should know thier own personality traits.

 

Learning a students personallity traits will aid in teaching them.

 

It is extremely important to take the time to carefully craft assignments, projects, quizzes, etc that will reach each type of learner in your class. Instructors should ask themselves, from each learning style perspective - not just their own, if the assignments are engaging and would meet the needs of a gold, a blue, an orange a green, etc. The goal is to have an all inclusive and engaging foundation for a class that gets the most out of each attendee.    

The main takeaway for me is offering alternative assignments improves student engagement and learning opportunities. This way the student can select the assignment that best fits their personality, and as long as the assignment is tied back to the course and program learning objectives these are great ways to accommodate different types of leaners.

I plan to utilize the four personality questions as an ice breaker activitiy with students.  I think it will provide valuable insights.  I also like the idea of having one project where students can choose different methods to achieve the same learning objective.

I don't see how an instructor with a set curriculum and labs and 60 students can alter everything for every student, it's not logical, doable or practical, what they can do is look at the students that aren't doing well and see if it's in their character that the problem lies and work with that, but we are doing job training and employers are not going to alter every little thing every little task that all are required to do.

 

Here again on an online enviroment how do you get to connect personalities?  Getting to meet students in person will tell a lot about who they are.  I am a firm believer that you can never gain true perspective of an individual on the internet.  You can be whoever you want online, but in person that is a different story.

I do and will continue to find personality traits of learners.  With the pandemic and online learning platforms, this has become a real challenge.

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