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True Colors A Colorful Look at Personality Types By: Lacey Morgan

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Page 1: True Colors

True ColorsA Colorful Look at Personality Types

By: Lacey Morgan

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Our personality greatly impacts the way we see our world……

and the way we learn.

As teachers, it is imperative that we be informed about our students learning styles.

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True Colors of Learning

What are the different learning types?

• Orange

• Gold

• Green

• Blue

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Oranges

• Orange people want to do things now

• Active • Enjoy risks, adventure

and competition• Variety and spontaneity • Learn best by moving and

doing• Solve problems. • Artisans, craftsmen,

painters, sculptors, dancers, etc

Don’t like to plan ahead• Routines • Lectures • Note-taking• book work• Difficulty sitting still

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Teaching Orange Students

• Design lessons that provide opportunities for physical involvement

• Chances to take risks in a safe and structured environment

• Provide cooperative learning situations.

• Laid back supervision of adults.

• Include games, dramatic presentations and role playing

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Getting The Most From These StudentsOut of Steam Behaviors

• Disorganized • Unproductive• Purposefully break the

rules• Boisterous and restless• Avoid situations by

running from them or dropping out

Motivating

• Hands on• Spontaneous• Movement• Humor • Opportunities to use problem

solving skills

• Competition

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Golds• Very responsible • Respond well to approval • Eager to please (rule

followers)• Flourish with routine and

order • High expectations for

themselves • Good study habits• Planners by nature • Most elementary level

teachers are golds • Golds love the traditions of

family events

• Golds struggle with confusion and disorder

• Will not do well with a teacher who is disorganized, disapproving, or vague

• Do not like change because they long for stability and predictability

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Teaching Gold Students

• Most likely of all colors to like “traditional” teaching practices

• Maintain routines

• Lots of praise and feedback

• Use carefully sequenced activities.

• Lectures, note taking and drill and practice activities allow them to predict their own success

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Getting The Most From These Students

Out of Steam Behaviors

• Moody, complaining, self pitying individuals

• They can suffer from fatigue and depression

• They can become very rigid towards situations and prove to be very difficult to sway back on track

Motivating

• Activities that include detailed, explicit directions

• Recognition for doing the right thing and being on task

• Structure and dependable situations

• Family

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Greens

• Ask lots of questions • Enjoy the challenge of

exploring open ended questions

• Precocious, high achievers• Learn to read early in• Inventors and collectors• Once they have mastered

something, they need to move on

• Struggle with social skills• Do not fair well with physical

punishment• See the details, but miss the

big picture• Evaluations must be very

clear in the explanation or qualification of a given grade

• Not understanding of others slow to master a concept or as willing to delve deeply into a topic

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Teaching Green Students

• Need lots of opportunities to experience success

• Need lots of intellectual stimulation

• Hands on opportunities that allow for lots of exploration

• Provide time for feed back

• Allow an option of working independently

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Getting The Most From These Students

Out of Steam Behaviors

• Withdraw when they have had enough

• May refuse to communicate

• Become rude and make inappropriate comments about others

• Very critical of themselves and others

• Act in a very insensitive and unforgiving manner

Motivating

• Creative assignments that provide enough time to perfect the final project

• Logic based problems

and issues that can be debated

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Blues

• In search of the meaning of life

• Loquacious • Read early in life and enjoy

the exposure to new words• Tend to be peace keepers • Social settings are a blue’s

forte because they are often empathetic and pick up on subtle social cues

• Enjoy working in small groups to solve problems

• Want authentic experiences• Idolize their teachers

• They long for self-actualization, but never quite feel fulfilled

• Hypersensitive • Will not do well in a

classroom if they feel their teacher ridicules them or does not appreciate them

• They do not enjoy competition

• Do not respond well to large group settings or too much stimulation.

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Teaching Blue Students

• Blues need a learning environment that is rich with language, harmony, justice and physical closeness

• Opportunities for students to work cooperatively and use their imaginations

• Instruction that is geared towards individual goals and high standards

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Getting The Most From These Students

Out of Steam Behaviors• Tend to become

withdrawn• Daydream • Attention getting

behaviors• Become stubborn • Depressed and cry over

small issues• Hard time rebounding

from injured egos

Motivating• Dramatic or expressive

outlets, especially poetry and arts

• Opportunity to show their unique talents and skills

• Nurturing, supportive environment

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If students do not learn the way we teach……

Let us teach the way they learn. -Kenneth Dunn