Effective Teaching, Effective Learning: Making the Personality Connection in Your Classroom

Improve education by exploring teaching and learning styles. Written to help teachers develop more effective strategies for working with their students, this book explores the teaching and learning styles for the sixteen MBTI(R) personality types. Teachers learn to identify the strengths and limitations of their own styles and are given practical advice on how to reach students whose learning styles differ from their favored teaching method. Also included are specific steps for handling conflict, academic problems, and interpersonal issues as well as suggestions for matching instructional materials and methods to learning styles. Alice M. Fairhurst, M.S., has spent thirty years as a teacher, counselor, corporate trainer, and administrator. She is a well-known expert on personality type and a frequent speaker to professional groups. Lisa L. Fairhust has spent over ten years as a secondary school math teacher to both gifted and disadvantaged youth.