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For a quick recap, last week we looked at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality profiling tool. It is about preferences and not skills. It is based on three personality dimensions, which were identified and explored by Jung:
1) How do people interact with their world?
2) How do people take in information?
3) How do people process that information?
And the time dimension added by Isabel Myers and Kathryn Briggs:
4) How do people manage their time?
Happy Summer! Today was my last full day of work so I am officially on summer break! Hallelujah! I love those kids but teachers need a break at the end of the year! Summer is that time for us to rejuvenate and get ready for the next year. I had a wonderful year in fifth grade but the awesome thing about being a teacher is you get the opportunity to start over every year! This summer, I have lots of things going on and I have a list of tutoring students but I still want to set goals so the summer doesn’t go by and I’m like, “Agggghhhhh! Only a week left of summer! I better start on that to-do list!” Anyone
If you’re considering going to the OH Conference, buy your tickets before 3/27 so you take advantage of the early bird discount. Here’s the 4-1-1 on the Conference:
Laughter may be the best medicine, but have you ever considered that humor may not always be funny, and even worse, can be very hurtful? Recently on the set of the latest Adam Sandler movie several Native American extras and actors quit, having had enough of his malodorous humor about putting your pee-pee in their tee-pee, Beaver Breath, and her named friends No-Bra and Sit’s-on-Face. There is a real corrosive effect from sexist and racist humor, and a prejudicial attitude combined with disparaging humor can increase discrimination. Psychologists from Western Carolina University have proposed the “Normative Window Theory of Prejudice.” This theory suggests that we rank social groups by how acceptable it is to discriminate and have prejudicial attitudes
