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The inventory
site:
In addition to evaluating your temperament type, it provides a
description of the type as well as a list of the famous and
infamous that share the type. Reading level is high and we've had
only limited success using it with students, but works really
well for adults. cheers Chris
Chris Rust * "I'd rather die peacefully
Technogizmologist * like my grandfather
Battle Ground * than terrified and screaming
Alternative Learning Prog. * like his passengers."
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The temperament sorter from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey
and Bates is a clue to how you react to the world and your
learning style. A simple method of sorting by style. You are not
one self;
but many selves - depends on conditions, diet, environment, mood,
etc.
PICK A GROUP - then SEND ME E-MAIL with you name and group
(names below match file names in /synergy /STYLES )
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I am working on this: This is the way to divide groups ( for a
class ): First by S/N (concrete/abstract) then by P/J
Expermental/Sequential
and then by Reflective (F) and Abstract
(T) only if any group is too big by interdirected (I) or other directed (E).
Some of the links don't work yet - so go to list below or just open the files;
/STYLES
One group has reported in /EPIMETHE/ABSTRACT/ADMIN/ the administrators.
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Abstract T Reflective F Abstract T Reflective F
Concrete PROMOTER Entertainer Trustee Vendor Seller
ESTP ESFP ISTJ ESFJ
S Artisan Artist Administrator Conservator
ISTP ISFP ESTJ ISFJ
Theory Inventor Journalist General Pedagogue
ENTP ENFP ENTJ ENFJ
N Architect Questor Scientist Author
INTP INFP INTJ INFJ
EXPERMENTAL P SEQUENTIAL J
1.0 APOLLO
Theoretical (N) and Reflective (F)
Experimental (P)
1.1 Journalist (ENFP)
1.2 Questors (INFP)
Sequential (J)
1.3 Pedagogues (ENFJ)
1.4 Authors (INFJ)
Apollo Sanguine blood
DIONYSiAn - Concrete (S) and Experimental (P)
Abstract (T)
2.1 Artisan ( ISTP )
2.2 Promotor ( ESTP )
Reflective (F) Reflective
2.3 Entertainer ( ESFP )
2.4 Artist ( ISFP )
Dionysian - Phlegm joy - active - choleric - touchy
3.0 EPIMETHEUS company - Concrete (S) Sequential (J)
Abstract (T)
3.1 Trustee (ISTJ)
3.2 Administers (ESTJ)
Reflective (F)
3.3 Conservators (ISFJ)
3.4 Sellers Vendors (ESFJ)
Building: General categories - (S)ensing -
(J)udgement
Epimatheus - Melancholic black bile -
The Ayn Rand
types
Castles ISTJ - ESTJ material empires ( rich )
Success ISFJ - ESFJ social standing ( famous )
planning with closure, time certain Builders of
Castles, empires, Success - the ants DUTY (Pandora)
4.0 PROMETHEUS =
Theoretical (N) Reflective (F)
Experimental (P)
4.1 Architects (INTP)
4.2 Inventors ENTP)
Sequential (J)
4.3 Scientist (INTJ)
4.4 Fieldmartials (ENTJ)
Prometheus Phlegmatic Yellow bile
The files in /styles are set up in the same way.
EXPERMENTAL = (P)erceptions is the most important
divide;
(P)erceiving (go with the flow) - VS.
SEQUENTIAL = (J)udging (order and set plans) the first
division
CONCRETE = (S)ense and sensible, material practical -
VS. THEORY = i(N)tution, is the second division.
ABSTRACT = (T)hinking - YANG left brain - language
Think goes
with hearing, talking, structure - tough love
REFLECTIVE = (F)eeling YIN go with the right brain /images Feeling
goes with /images, projections, transference, empathy
and last
(E)xtraversion - outside VS - (I)ntroversion -inside
I WILL POST THE LISTS IN THE GROUP FOLDERS and mail
you a
list of fellow COMMON souls.
Then you can write each other and post materials in
your file, GET IT?
After you have a group look below and think about what level you
are on and where do you want to go ?
TYPES STYLES: PERSONALITY:
DIRECTORY
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Dr.
Peter Pflaum
THIS EXERCISE helps us learn to understand our own style
and the ways we relate to others.
The questions used to form the groups are the Gregorc and
Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
These test get at the attitudes about
change and order
RE: Grouping by style : how to have great classes
What I use to set up groups is the Keirsey
Temperament sorter
( a free form of the Myers-Briggs from "Please Understand me" (an
excellent book).
I use the chart in the book as a map of the classroom and ask
people to stand in their personality profile square. I have them
label themselves with first name and type - i.e. the Extroverts
to the front of the room, the introverts to the back;
The sensing
( materialist ) to the left, the Intuitive (spiritual) to the
right, then divide each quarter into thinking/feeling and
Judgmental (really the planning type)/ Perceiving (spontaneous )
types. Form groups of less than 7 - I like 3 or 4 maybe 5 people
to a group.
The groups are stable all term ( 15 weeks).
They can
expel non-preforming members.
The people believe that they share traits in common. This helps
keep the groups active for the whole term (15 weeks).
They give
themselves a group name "
The Boston Tea Party"
They make a color
coded folder for their work.
There are 15 units (weeks) each made
up of
A: reading and discussion of the textbook (a group report,
one page each unit );
B: An activity in my workbook or can be
made up by the groups (a group report, typed) and
C: a personal journal (
Theme and how all this relates to me,
one page
typed ) when finished all the papers are put into the folder and
handed
it. (One A, one B and as many C's as people in the group- one
page each typed) I give points and comments. (Up to 8 points per
unit - 2 really not much, 4 something, 6 good but lacks
initiative, only what's required; 8 = excellent, more than
required )
They can improve the work and hand it in again ( more
like the real world where your work is not just accepted as a C
but you do it again, and again and improve ).
They put finished the material in file, get it credited then
put it into
a "portfolio" (3" binder). 80% of the total points need to be in
these basic units.
The other 20% can be in innovative activities,
field trips, movies, books, videos, almost anything. At lease 50%
of class time is given to group meeting.
They also have outside
meetings ( lab time).
When they have 113 1/2 points ( includes attendence points ) they
become eligible for the "A", the whole portfolio is reviewed for
organization and themes. When they are done they are done.
There
are no test or anything else. It works great.
The people are
turned on, fired up - dull bored students lighten up and become
active. Synergy happens and its a joy to see. It's not easy
because you have a lot of paper work but worth while and you will
love it.
The joy of teaching will return. Cut down lecture, bring
up synergy.
STYLE IN EDUCATION
The expansion of methods:
The best guides I know are Fiske
(Edward) Smart Schools Smart Kids and Goodlad (John) High School
This is based on District #4 in NYC.. See Wiseman file High
Schools
II and Sizers More Effective Schools (If you are for real which
I doubt because no one can be in CHARGE of reform - it has to
be an collective effort A process - continuious improvemnet -
see Deming papers on /ethos
All you want to know about school reform but were afraid to
ask
On the first teacher day of the school year, the staff
assemble
in the gym. Everyone takes a short opinion instrument measuring
( from 1 to 5 on a scale from 1. strongly agree - 2. agree 3.
no opinion 4. disagree 5. strongly disagree) their opinion on
20 question like these:
1.
The must be order before freedom? 2. I must plan my
activities.
3. I go only by the facts - concrete information. 4.
There must
be structure in every organization - that means someone in
charge.
5. New conditions and change bother me. 6. It's its not broke
- don't fix it. 7. I am materialist......idealist are out-of-it
8. conservative.....liberal are zoos 9. practical....experiment
has no place here 10. tough.....easy going people let things
go too far 11. stick to your subject... 12. don't push
me...what
I do is enough of a challenge, etc. 13. I only teach my
subject....I
don't need new subjects and methods 14. I like the school the
way it is.... 15. Some student learn - other can't or
won't....every
child can't learn some subjects. 16.
The rules protect us...the
structure doesn't limit us 17.
The authorities should take the
responsibility... 18. Not my job man.....I can only do so much
19. Look out for #1......or no one will 20. This is stupid......
When everyone has a score from 20 to 100, and are asked
to line up in order of their scores. Count off groups of 4 to
7, the ideal size is five. Groups (IG for Instructional Groups
or some other name such as fellowship, order, band, association
etc could be used) are formed depending on any breaks in the
numbers.
The low scores are those that need order and patterns, the
higher numbers those that are more adventure-some. (
The Gregorc
and Keirsey temperament sorter could be used but are more complex
and uncertain.
The Myers-Briggs first dimension is thinking
(TJIS)
to feeling (FPEI) but this is not simple and I don't think it
works as well.)
Each (IG) group is now stable for the term or year or for
ever. It gives it self a positive name (Achievement Place,
Success
House, etc.) and selects a temporary leader. People can be put
out of groups, or decide to leave, but it becomes their
responsibility
to find another (IG) group that will have them or form a new (IG)
group of exiles.
These IG's have a place to meet and keep
supplies.
Every subject is broken up into subjects, weekly assignments,
projects, tasks, and other activities. Groups work on all
subjects
together.
There maybe all Language Arts or Science in a IG, or
any mixture.
Their activities will focus on what they know and
like.
They (IG's) develop a message and a mission.
They take a
name and a leader. When the students arrive each IG has a table
(like the old college registration process) and the students
(with
their parents) apply to several groups.
The groups have an
admission
policy and select the students for their programs. (Like District
# 4 in East Harlem ). Groups need to be balanced by race and
achievement
in a general sense. Students not selected will be assigned by
a random number process. Groups could be stable for years like
a one-room schoolhouse.
The school building is divided by color codes and other signs
that this area is IG "x", the school-in-school name
is clearly displayed. Outside facilities could also be used -
community centers - churches - business locations. This method
can applied to elementary, middle, high school, community
college,
University or any learning organization, class, training activity
or task or association.
The students in each IG are broken up the same way as the
teachers were (different questions, same idea) into Study Groups
(SG's, or BRIGADES) and work with their IG of teachers as their
home-base. SGs of students (called BRIGADES) should be of
different
ages, abilities, and interests.
There is little as possible
administration,
the rule being everything that can be delegated to the IG's
should
be.
The IGs report their results on a regular basis. A
presentation
and point system is used. 5= creative, gone the extra mile above
and beyond required, 4= very good to excellent, everything
required,
3= sound work, but lacking something, style, form, appearance
counts, grammar, paragraphs, typing etc 2= not very good , try
again, this is not the best you can do, lack of interest and
character
1= didn't really try - sloppy - minimum effort.
These scores
are multiplied by the difficulty (like in diving) or the amount
of work (estimated hours) required. A activity that takes 8
hours
is worth 4 points x quality index or .5 credit per hour, from
4, (4x1) to 16 (4x4) depending on quality.
Scores are kept on a Lotus123 spread sheet. I use
activities
of all the same size which makes it simpler.
The reports, science
demonstrations, theater or video productions, journals,
portfolios,
exhibitions, newsletters and Creative writing little magazines,
et al are scored with points. Grades are given on the basis of
points earned, with or without traditional tests unless you want
them for points again. A 3 hour subject is about 15 activities
(5 points each plus bonus points, attendance points, etc. for
a total of about 113 for an A). I don't give grades students earn
them. It's a lot better that way.
There is no required normal
distribution, more that half can get A, but that is up to you
and your IG.
A project may earn points in Social Studies, History,
English,
Science and Math.
The study (and action) on bike trails, the
Slave
Trade, 16th Century
Theater, Video arts and information,
The
Technology
and Social effects of Space travel, Global Classroom, the Model
UN, International Studies, rivers and lakes, forest and fields,
food production and distribution, banking or business, etc.
etc..Networks
are critical to the future classroom and not expensive.
The instructional IGs hold a fair where all the students,
parents and community can see their work.
They recruit new
members
by application.
They develop a theme and philosophy for their
IG's and Brigades.
The use of mixed-detachments for special
projects
could include members from several IG's.
A student brigade may take all subjects from their home
instructional IG, (if they include all subjects) or the teacher
IGs may exchange science for language instruction with another
IG, i.e. you take my brigade in Science and we will take yours
in Social Studies/English 10 hr a week . Each student must have
the state required subjects by these IG exchanges or using
consultants.
A average IG would be five teachers and 80 students. (16:1) This
ratio is important and can be achieved without additional cost
by reductions in administrative overhead and supervision and use
of aides and volunteers.
Since the central idea is self-management by the IGs
themselves,
freedom and responsibility, they need resources but not
supervision
on a regular basis.
They could do advisement and special
education,
attendance and other paperwork with part-time help. Purchasing
could be done on the discount market using a credit card. IG's
should have their own phone, copy center, computer and office
space, as if they were professional CPA's or lawyers, or
engineers.
The central administration is overseen by a policy committee
of IG leaders, parents, community and outside consultants.
The
system is performance based and those IGs that preform are left
alone or helped, those IGs who need and accept help get what help
they need. Those IGs that can't be helped are broken up and
reformed.
There is no doubt test score will incease at least 1.5 years
for each year of time.
There will be fewer in any discipline
problems,
absenteeism, vandalism, crime, etc.
The IGs should have uniforms
(teachers and students) - the ratio should be worked down to 12:1
by reassigning most professional non-classroom staff to teaching
in the classroom and cuts in central office costs. In-service
money is given directly to the IGs, there is no need for area
superintendents, subject matter specialist, discipline
committees,
etc. etc. All these activities could be purchased by the IGs
on the open market. Even busing, maintenance services, library
services, media centers etc could be by contract via the computer
network.
Central evaluation maybe needed but open records and
performance
means that parents can select IGs that work and avoid IGs they
don't like. This is the best evaluation. IGs will want to show
they preform by doing testing, demonstrations and promotion. Much
of this could be on-line.
There should be a least three levels of teachers, master
teacher, and head teacher. Some programs can be offered by
"consultants"
in art, drama, video arts and sciences, foreign language, sports
etc. It is nor hard, its fun, it will work better (heavens knows
what we have been doing is not working very well) it is less
expensive.
There is almost no administration - everyone - teacher IGs and
student Brigades are self governing. It can start with the
current
curriculum and move to new subject organization over time. It
is important that the IG's are connected by networks and
computers.
Staff and students should have home computers.
CONTEXT ECOLOGY of the "White, Western"
civilization
in the last few centuries was based on advanced military
technology
(growth of modern science) and governmental and private systems
of finance, insurance, taxation, and other forms of social
organization.
Honda and General Motors compete. One form of social organization
is superior to the other.
There are winners and losers of
market-share.
So it is with cultures and empires.
The western capitalist
system
also is a form of "character" or personality.
The
attributes
of adventure, change, enterprise, is summed up in
"Achievement
Motivation."
The expanded role of individuals lauds new creations in
science
and technology, of builders and conquerors of new worlds. Money,
wealth, possessions are seen as the symbols of success.
The
stress
on individualism lets us forget that capitalism was and is a
social
event. Democracy (western style), capitalism (western style),
Protestant religion, and science and technology are part of a
"seamless web" of social interactions.
Our superior civilization is now under attack by other
cultures
with other advantages. History does not stop but keeps the
pressure
on. Success creates "arrogance" and the sin of pride
(hubris) that is man's downfall.EXERCISE:
What is your personality type? Are you
"here-and-now"
or "out-in-space"? How much do you plan your
activities
and time? Do you go step by step or just jump in and see what
happens? Is your group the same or different? How do you begin
to understand others? SOCIOLOGY: (Mexico) Use the functionalist
approach and discuss what are the advantages and disadvantages
of different personality types? What careers (page 78) are better
for what types?
The Global economy makes new demands for
success.
Higher level skills (thinking, pattern seeking, innovation,
cooperation,
math and science, etc. ) will be needed for high incomes in the
future. Low level jobs go "elsewhere." What is your
plan? SOCIAL SCIENCE: Discuss human evolution. Is personality
a product of survival - some personalities do better - breed more
and is more common in the next generation? Is aggression more
useful than cooperation? What other social process is the result
of biology? (P 36 in the Textbook -Perry and Perry -7th edition)
Educational Reform - Its' not difficult! IG's and BRIGADES -
Easy and fun, you can raise productivity 50% within a year and
100% in a few years - then the sky the limit.
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The three classical attitudes
are:
THE MONK, control of passions or ID, THE YOGI, control of ones
thoughts or EGO, THE BODY-MIND - "New Age", Humanistic
psychology, trans-personal, ecological, motivational
"positive
thinking", peak performance, which are all aspects of the
same elephant.
In Fritz Perls
terms:
Chicken dropping - social chat, avoid real contact Cow dropping
(BS) - showing off, undergraduate discussions, politics -
pretence
and role playing.. Elephant dropping - profound but empty, false
talk and hollow religion - profound pretenses - The State of the
Union
The ancient Sufi tale of the elephant in the dark (or blind men
and the elephant) is about people's limits of awareness. Everyone
perceives and different aspect of "reality" and then
argues with others who have grasped a different piece. Higher
awareness requires an altered states of consciousness. THE WAY
YOU SEE THE PROBLEM IS THE PROBLEM.
Another tale is the lion in the pit. You try to show him the way
of escape but he doesn't perceive the nature of his condition
and situation. He eats the people that come to help him. People
do not take kindly to enlightment. There is no good deed that
goes unpunished.
It is an integration of modern physics, medicine, psychology,
philosophy, and ancient ways of knowing. The vision comes from
Handsome Lake, the Tony Wallace "
The Death and Rebirth of
the Seneca"
The covenant has been broken - society, the
traditional
ways of knowing, authority has been lost. Things are coming apart
and people don't seem to know "what is going on".
Stages: Ken Wilber, The
Spectrum of Consciousness:
ONE:
(Baby Awareness) Me and non-me, sense of time, here and not here,
see, hear, touch, smell, and eat.
TWO: (Infant Awareness) Thinking in words and /images, focused
impulses and emotions: Ages one to three.
THREE: (Elementary Symbolic Awareness) The unique nature of
humans
is advanced symbol identification and naming in context of a
social
language: (ages three to six)
FOUR: (Junior Role Awareness) Construction of "rules",
Roles, Acting the part, Pretense, the BLUE water stage,
construction
of the "life Rafts", defenses, body amour, and habits
"which start as fine as spider's webs but with practice
become
heavy chains, iron cables which define the limits of our
being,"
these chains were constructed in the "industrial age".
The "information age" requires breaking the habits of
mass production, top down, bureaucratic consciousness, inside
and outside.
FIVE: ( High School, apprenticeship, emotional/rational awareness
) Introspection, deductive reasoning, and social acceptable
behavior
( by peer groups and commercial interests ). The YELLOW earth
stage of rationalization, projections, transference, dogma,
beliefs,
superstitions, fancies: based on passions, wants, needs, desires,
EGO gratification. Society demands this level of development but
no more, there are social pressures to keep the
"masses"
as factory workers and not move their awareness beyond this norm.
To wake up the people to "what is really going on" is
a subversive activity.
SIX: ( EDUCATED: Journeyman, The Liberal Arts, wake-up)
Traditionally
reserved for the "ruling class", Humanities, More
integrated
thinking, a wider prospective, the greater good, synthesis,
connections,
relationships, were necessary for leadership, maybe even some
body-mind awareness. Poetry, the visual arts, music, dance,
philosophy,
modern science and math, open the doors of perception beyond the
limits of "home town" culture.
The RED Zone, because
the dangers and fear of freedom, most people do now have the
security
to feel comfortable with open horizons and new ideas, cultures,
changes, possibilities.
SEVEN: ( MASTERS Craftsmen Level, KNOWLEDGEABLE, understanding,
pay attention:) almost wise, profound: Some are born to
independence,
some achieve independence, some have independence thrust upon
them). The BROWN Ground is the deep down sense of being OK, self
actualization.
The "feeling" not a thought that you
can trust and believe in yourself, you are the perfect creation
of a loving G- D, you are not the reflection in others eyes and
DEPENDENT on others reactions, but have gained freedom to respond
by your free choice. Knowledge is the connection between thinking
and doing, information plus understanding of what is really going
on beyond the information given.
EIGHT: DOCTOR's level - (In the old crafts guild sense not our
corrupted educational certificates) Psychic, mystic, awareness
of spirits, ghosts, mysteries, demons, love, hate, body-mind
connections
- NOT independent of ego, or information, knowledge, experience,
common sense, but an expansion. There are a lot of
"fakes",
wizards, con-artist, crazies, who sell short cuts to
"wisdom",
faith, trans-personal spiritual, transforming experience,
BUT...BUT...
BUT...
Level nine and ten involve the love affair between man and G-D,
when the lover and the beloved become one, a interesting
character
with great EGO control, making space between action and reaction
called choice. Having a strong personality ( In the world but
not of it ) The concept is mostly expressed in the heavenly music
of the spheres, the sweet harmony of the universe, the poetry
of the soul; " we are the stuff of which stars and dreams
are made", - a mystery in a puzzle in an enigma - and feel
comfortable with different ways of knowing and not knowing.
The
many "selves" become integrated not overwhelmed or
destroyed,
the repertoire becomes wider - Rumi, Mozart, Franklin, FD
Roosevelt,
( all freemasons) and in our day: Herbert Benson, Joseph
Campbell,
Norman Cousins, Wellness Bib
Dean Ornish, Alexander Lowen, Steven Covey, Victor Frankl, Ken
Wilber, A.H. Maslow, Charles Tart,
- People who live in the world, not just practice human potential
- but do something to make the world a better place, Dr Salk,
Pauling, Bronsky, who do you suggest as approaching the
"complete
person", focused on goals, active, energized, balanced,
centered,
understanding, patient, soulful, mindful, spiritual, loving, a
"great human being" maybe Judith my Grandmother ? Does
not have to have a certificate in "human potential"
or do yoga - these are means not ends and the ends can be
achieved
in many ways. The heros of Yugoslavia, the saints of Samolia,
the Doctors without Walls, (Medicin san Frontier)
The children
ground, (le Terre L'Enfant) go to where angels fear to tread and
you find them - Central Africa, South East Asia, Urban Schools
- Our mothers ? Clearly missing in the political leadership
because
the system does not allow greatness, courage, honesty,
character..