Benefits in the Classroom

According to the Briggs-Meyer personality test I am an ESFJ. Therefore, I have an expressed feeling personality. One result is that my classroom will be influenced by my personal values. I will be fair and firm and there are certain limits in the classroom that can not be crossed and I will attempt to create cohesion in my interactions with my students . I feel those attributes will create an environment where there is a feeling of safety and that learning can take place. I believe in making relationships with students as much as possible. Being the teacher, I am in control of what those relationships will be, so I must make the effort to start them. I am also an extravert. I can use this attribute in many ways. First of all, there will be lots of laughter in my classroom. There is always time to lighten the mood and with my sense of humour (at least I think I have a sense of humour-all of you can judge it over the semester) that can occur. In my short teaching experience teaching Japanese students in Kamloops, there was a very good classroom atmosphere and I feel the high amount of laughter played an integral role. Secondly, I like interactive classrooms and I will employ strategies to make co-operative learning the focus of my teaching.