the Editors, Mark & Carol
17 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: at-risk students, Carol Shumate, drop-outs, extraverted perceiving, introverted perceiving, ISTJ, learning disability, Mark Hunziker, teachers
November 5, 2013

In the type table in the accompanying article on the type-diverse classroom, almost 60% of the ‘at risk’ and drop-out students are reported to have dominant extraverted perception, while almost half of the teachers are dominant introverted perceivers. Is extraverted perception misdiagnosed as a learning disability? Or, is that preference actually problematic …
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Mary Anne Sutherland
17 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: 16 types, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, at-risk students, attention deficit disorder, dropouts, exceptional needs, Extraverts, Feeling, high-performing, individualized instruction, Introverts, learning-disabled, Mary Anne Sutherland, Sensing
November 5, 2013

These at-risk students taught us how to teach everyone. I have described my classroom set-up as an integral part of the instruction. … Intuitively, before knowing about type, I had set up my classroom to accommodate multiple learning styles. Even the ISTJ students, who tend to like the traditional classroom set-up, performed better in my classroom.
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