Multiple Intelligence & Myers Briggs Personality Test

Multiple Intelligence

Every student, every teacher, and every person all have different ways or learning, understanding, and processing information. It is very important as a teacher to understand that when you are teaching, assessing, evaluating, or giving activities in school that you are not focusing on only one area of intelligence. You need to turn lessons into different intelligence areas such as: Take a chapter from a book; have students read the chapter, write about the chapter, draw pictures from the chapter, and act out the chapter in a short role play. Doing this will reach students who need Linguistic, Intrapersonal, Visual, and/or Kinesthetic learning ways.

This photo shows the names and meanings of the 9 different Multiple Intelligence.

As a future teacher, I would rate this type of learning/teaching very high. On a scale of 1-5 I would rate this as a 5. You are focusing in on personal ways that each student learns. If you did not do this, you would not be providing them with the best opportunities to learn.

Sample of a common Multiple Intelligence Test

Myer's Briggs Personality Test

Another helpful test is the Myer's Briggs Personality Test. This test provides teachers with a better understanding of not just how students learn (like the Multiple Intelligence Tests) but to get to know them on a more personal level. This test is believed to actually measure a person's way of making decisions. According to this test there are 16 types of personalities, all made up of 1 of each personalities in the chart below:

This chart lists the 8 different personalities. The test will decide which best resembles your own personality. 

 The test consists of a series of questions, and your answers determine what type of personality you have. This "score" which will give you the letter of your personality (e.g. INFP, ESTJ) provides general assumptions about how your personality type is. Below is a chart showing the 16 different personality scores:

Having your students take such a test may explain certain traits or actions they show in class. If I was to rate this on a scale of 1-5 in importance in the classroom, I would give it a 5 as well.

Both the MI test and the MB test can provide teachers and students with information they may not already be aware of when it comes to that child as a student. These can be very effective in creating lesson plans and helping students meet their higher potential by knowing how they learn and how they perceive things.