How does my personality affect my relationships with my students?
According to personality tests, my personality falls between ESTP and ISTJ.
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My score read as E-52% and I-48% meaning that I enjoy dealing with people and things, I like to take action, bounce ideas off of people, and let people know my thoughts and feelings. When I am Introverting, I tend to direct my energy towards ideas and information, concentrating on a few issues quite deeply, and I think things through before taking action. This personality trait will directly benefit my teaching and my relationships with my students. To be an effective, caring and supportive educator balance is key, and the balance that I possess naturally between Extraversion and Introversion is the definition of teaching. It will assist me in helping students with personal, emotional, behavioral, academic and cognitive aversions.
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The next section of the test described me as S-68% and N-32%, meaning I prefer to deal with reality, facts, tangible outcomes, and specific information. This preference is known to have a positive impact on areas of communication and/or management – areas that are essential to building and maintaining positive and nurturing relationships with students and their parents.
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Then I scored T-52% and F-48%, with a balance between Thinking and Feeling. Thinking uses objective principles and is concerned with truth and correctness, whereas, Feeling uses subjective values and focuses more on relationships and important beliefs. Once again, this parallel balance between the two personality sides will serve as beneficial to building and maintaining positive relationships with my students. The equality between the two sides transpires to leadership and leadership development. As a teacher it is important to be the leader of the classroom and to assist the students in their development in leadership.
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Much like the Thinking and Feeling portion of the test, I am placed between Judgment and Perception. I scored J-51% and P-49%. People of Judgment like to structure and control life, they make decisions and stick to them, where people of Perception tend to go with the flow, and are more flexible and spontaneous. Where most people would be conflicted to have near equality between the two personality traits, it is an ideal situation for a potential educator. People of Judgment often feel more comfortable with a plan, which is essential it teaching – one must have a plan… a plan for the daily routine, a plan for the lesson, and plan for student grouping and collaborative work, a plan for assessments, the list goes on. On the flip side, people of Perception feel more comfortable if things are left unplanned, and they can be more spontaneous. This quality is also essential to teaching – one must be adaptable. A teacher needs to be able to adapt and change their plan on the drop of a dime, they need to be able to make modifications to lesson plans, and the daily routines can easily change – this trait can assist with these inevitable situations.
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A person’s personality will directly affect the relationships with other people, especially a teacher and his or her students. The key to effectively building and managing positive and nurturing relationships among teacher and students, students and students, and teachers and parents is to fully comprehend one’s personal personality traits and know how to successfully adapt to meet the needs of others.
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