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True ColorsA Colorful Look at Personality Types
By: Lacey Morgan
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.
True Colors of Learning
What are the different learning types?
• Orange
• Gold
• Green
• Blue
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
If students do not learn the way we teach……
Let us teach the way they learn. -Kenneth Dunn