ABMP Student Success Curriculum

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ABMP Student Success Curriculum

• Topic 11 Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory

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2. Goals of This Lecture

• Help students understand themselves and their
  classmates better.
• Understand the role that personality plays in
  classroom dynamics.
• Experience less frustration and more tolerance
  for others.

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3. Benefits of Understanding Personality

• Increased sensitivity to others
• Increased self-awareness
• Increased awareness of personality dynamics
• A better classroom environment
• Better communication skills with future clients

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4. History of Myers-Briggs

• Based on work of Carl Jung
• Katharine Cook-Briggs Isabel Briggs-Myers
• Translation of Jung's work for the public
• Most widely used personality test in the world
• Used in colleges and in the workplace

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5. The Four Preferences

• Where do you direct energy and from where do you
  generate energy (Introversion or Extroversion)?
• How do you prefer to perceive or take in
  information (Sensing or Intuition)?
• How do you prefer to make decisions (Thinking or
  Feeling)?
• How do you prefer to organize and manage your
  life (Judging or Perceiving)?

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6. Where do you direct energy and from where do
you generate energy?

• Introversion
• Works well alone
• Needs alone time to regenerate
• Draws energy from the inner world of thoughts and
  ideas

• Extroversion
• Social and outgoing
• Thrives on running from one place to the next
• Draws energy from people and activities

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7. How do you prefer to perceive or take in
information?

• Sensing
• Favors clear, organized information that can be
  perceived with senses

• Intuition
• Favors abstract, imaginative possibilities for
  the future
• Deals with information on the basis of hidden
  potential

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8. How do you prefer to make decisions?

• Thinking
• Prefers objective, logical data and places an
  emphasis on tasks to be accomplished

• Feeling
• Prefers to pay attention to the way a decision
  will impact all of the people involved
• Favors harmony for all

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9. How do you prefer to organize and manage life?

• Judging
• Feels comfortable with rules and regulations
• Highly organized

• Perceiving
• Feels comfortable going with the flow and seeing
  how things turn out
• Work productivity often determined by mood

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10. Myers-Briggs Testing

• Pay a Fee
• www.mbticomplete.com
• www.knowyourtype.com
• www.discoveryourpersonality.com
• Free (not as complete)
• www.humanmetrics.com
• www.quizstop.com/askmyers.html

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11. Classroom Dynamics

• Extroversion
• Discussion groups
• Group activities
• Clear learning goals
• Distracted by external events
• Likes projects that produce visible results

• Introversion
• Likes to work independently on a project
• Reading primary study technique
• Learning for its own sake
• Like things to be polished before they are seen
  by others

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12. Classroom Dynamics

• Sensing
• Likes facts
• Wants details
• Good at memorizing facts
• Good at understanding details
• Values skills you can use right now
• Wants to know the expected end result

• Intuition
• Makes associations
• Inspired by possibility
• Big picture perspective and not as interested in
  details
• Uses instinct and quickly adapts your own way of
  working
• Doesnt like instructors who describe every
  detail wants the big picture and ideas

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13. Classroom Dynamics

• Thinking
• Wants well-referenced information that is
  unbiased by emotion
• Naturally analyzes and critiques others
• Emotional aspects of massage training make
  student uncomfortable
• Prone to A-itis
• Accepts feedback only on clearly defined
  objectives

• Feeling
• Seeks harmony in the classroom
• Worries about classroom conflicts, even when they
  dont involve student
• Does well on subjects that have deep personal
  meaning
• Values teachers who make a personal connection

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14. Classroom Dynamics

• Judging
• Likes clear goals for the class
• Likes to see goals ticked off
• Likes end of class wrap-up
• Well organized study goals
• Rarely misses homework assignment deadlines
• Rarely misses quiz or test dates

• Perceiving
• Likes the class to progress freely without too
  much structure
• Gets bored with instructors who stick to one plan
  
• Loves playful and creative activities
• Has difficulty sticking to a study plan
• Often forgets assignment deadlines

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15. Success Tips Extrovert

• Organize study parties with classmates.
• Organize group discussions.
• Organize a school field trip to a working massage
  clinic and observe its operation.

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16. Success Tips Introvert

• Create a study sanctuary where you love to study.
  
• Start a massage journal to capture your ideas.
• Build a reference library with massage books
  other than those required in classes.

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17. Success Tips Sensing

• Create timelines and put facts in order.
• Ask instructors to share personal massage
  experiences.
• Sit close to classroom skeleton and the
  whiteboard.

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18. Success Tips Intuitive

• Write down directions for assignments.
• Mind-map your thoughts.
• Be aware of the potential dangers of missing
  important details during lectures.
• Be careful and completely read test questions
  before answering.

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19. Success Tips Thinking

• Teach yourself to do a sensitivity check before
  giving feedback to classmates.
• Allow class time for processing feelings about
  massage.
• Dont attach to A grades focus on learning the
  material.

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20. Success Tips Feeling

• Teach yourself to give honest feedback (you wont
  hurt your classmates feelings).
• Recognize that class time is for education and
  not for personal issues.
• Let go of the need to protect other people focus
  on yourself.

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21. Success Tips Judging

• Ask the instructor to list the days tasks on the
  whiteboard.
• Ask the instructor to recap the days learning at
  the end of the lesson.
• Question instructors carefully to find out the
  parameters of exams or practical activities.
• Breathe deeply and let the class unfold without a
  plan, if needed.

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22. Success Tips Perceiving

• Use mind maps to create study plans and color the
  plans in exciting colors.
• Write down quiz dates and keep an assignment
  calendar.
• Develop fun ways to keep track of dates.
• Find a homework buddy who will remind you of
  upcoming due dates and make study sessions more
  fun.

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23. Process Myers-Briggs

• Understand that diversity, complexity, and
  dynamic interaction are likely in massage school.
  
• Give and take is essential.
• Where have you been less than tolerant of others
  personalities?
• Where have you shown tolerance?

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