Power

As it was discussed in “temperaments and Teaching chapter of Cognitive type theory and learning style by Mamchur, different personality types react differently to sharing power in the classroom. For example, if a teacher’s personality is SJ she or he will hardly share the power because “[i]t is very difficult for the SJ to delegate, let go, turn any of the responsibility over to others” (p.82). On the other hand, NF teachers are more flexible and willing to change. For a NF personality type, it is much easier to listen to students and share her power with them.

I read Helen’s article and it was interesting but applying it in the class with students requires practise. I believe highly experienced teachers can be more successful in it rather than teachers with less experience. Also, we need to consider few things like: the class size, students’ age and our comfort zone.

I went to school in Iran. Teaching methods at that time was authoritarian and most of our teachers never shared power in the class. They were like gods in classrooms; no one dared to argue with them and question anything that they were saying.

According to our book, currently percentages of teachers with SJ personality type are much higher than other groups. However, this will be changed in the future because our teaching style is evolving so probably with this movement of traditional teaching towards a more flexible teaching method, teachers with NF personality type will be more successful in the field. The other consideration is students’ age group.