People Types & Tiger Stripes: A Practical Guide to Learning Styles

by Gordon Lawrence

People Types and Tiger Stripes gives an explanation of how type shows up in teaching and learning. It is addressed to teachers, but is useful for others in helping professions. It contains many activities that encourage learning through doing. Many of them are well suited to workshops.

Topics of the book include: understanding type concepts; recognizing your own type behavior; using type as a shorthand way of identifying learning styles in students; recognizing type biases in school expectations and procedures; planning instruction for the various types; and finding ways to help all students make the most of the assets of the type (using strengths to strengthen weaknesses).

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Education, Psychology, Self Help

100 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gordon Lawrence was a professor at University of Gainesville when Isabel Myers was formalizing the MBTI. He immediately saw the usefulness of the type framework in education--and this book records the wisdom he gained through decades of research and application. And, it's full of practical tools and information. If you've never seen type as useful, read this and then wish your teachers had read it!

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a misrepresentation to say that I read this book. I got it to do some research. Having found something useful, and having glanced through the rest of it, I'm putting this book on my recommendations list. It applies the Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory to the realm of education. A good resource for character development

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

A couple of years ago I decided to add to my professional toolbox and become certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. People Types and Tiger Stripes was strongly recommended as preliminary reading before attending the certification course, and it was a worthy read. While people often seem to behave in random and varied ways, of course we all know that there are underlying causes and patterns to the behavior.

The MBTI is a well-regarded, extensively research, instrument for uncovering some of those pattersn, or "types." This book is an excellent resource for beginning to understand and make use of the MBTI. It offers extended explanations of type theory and application, and includes topics such as:

- Understanding the 16 types and their underlying concepts
- Recognizing your own type behavior
- Using type to improve teaching and learning
- helping people to make the most of their type (and compensate for their type-related weaknesses)
- Applying type understanding in educational contexts

Well worth reading for anyone who wants to introduce type into an educational setting, or simply to understand people better.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great personality indicator book. I use it with my students, in teacher trainings, and to analyze my own relationships. I originally inherited this from my step-father who used it in cooperate development training. Myers-Briggs compatiable.

[J Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually found this book more helpful than Isabel Briggs-Myers' Gifts Differing. It lays out the basics of type in an organized, interesting way, as well as applying them to education. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in type, not just educators!

[Nancy Graham · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent, practical manual for those who teach and lead -- using Myers-Briggs tools to decode learning and work styles.

[Jen Lilienstein · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my all-time favorites.

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