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lyndaweinman

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Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Mar 27, 2012, 12:13am

Would anyone on this forum care to share teaching techniques and activities that a groomed for the introverted student? It seems that asynchronous activities are part of the solution – does anyone have any good stories as a teacher or a student that describe an agreeable curriculum or teaching practice?

lrudolph

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Apr 1, 2012, 8:08pm

This is something I do to foster the learning environment for the introverted student and I learned it from personal experience. I am a parent and first grade teacher. Fifteen years ago I walked by my daughter’s first grade classroom and saw her sitting off by herself and thought she was in time-out for misbehaving. When I asked her about it she said no she had asked if she could sit by herself because she liked working alone. I then started thinking about the students in my own class who might want to work in a quiet space versus working in a group setting. This led me to establish several quiet seats in my classroom. I put desks in remote nooks and corners and I have about five of these that students can go to when they need a quiet place to work. I have been doing this for twelve years. It is great. At first I put up signs on the desks that said Quiet Seat 1, etc. so visiting adults wouldn’t think I was putting so many of the students in time-out. Now that I have been doing it for years it has become a part of my classroom environment. I have group settings for students and quiet settings as well. It has been very effective.

DC1346

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Aug 24, 2012, 12:22pm

I was an elementary teacher for 17 years. I have now been a chef instructor for 6 years.

What are some teaching techniques for introverted students?

1) Use self instruction modules. With the advent of computer technology, this is a lot easier than the color coded cards I remember using for math and reading when I was an elementary student back in the 60's. Nowadays we have computer assisted instruction that can present instructional modules with quizzes to monitor comprehension.

2) Independent Projects. As an elementary teacher, I assigned book reports, social studies research projects, and science fair projects. As a chef instructor, last year I had some of my advanced students create individual cakes. Inspired by the Food Network's Cake Boss series, students created their own designer cakes using layered sponge cakes with butter cream frosting, fondant, modeling chocolate, and rice krispy treats.

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Aug 24, 2012, 4:12pm

I was interested in the part about Susan's book where she said that writing was a good way for introverts to express themselves. As an adult, I agree, but I never really learned to write in school/college since the writing classes all involved having to read one's own work out loud. I would have preferred death, so I dropped English classes altogether.

I then had a job at an English language newspaper in a foreign country, editing the work of non-native writers. It was a perfect way to become a better writer– by editing others' work– not my own. When the personal aspect of writing was removed, I could do it. When it required me to go public, I could not. I still have a hard time reading my own writing, and certainly would still not ever want to read it out loud (even to myself!).

So teachers, please, do not require students to read their writing out loud. There are other ways to learn to write. Use text that are not written by anyone in the class or anyone the students know.

jaycee

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Dec 16, 2012, 8:24pm

I believe that offering choice is important. There needs to be independent activities, as well as partner and group work settings. As a teacher, I structure different work arrangements, depending on the learning goal I have set for that lesson or project.

As much as introverts would prefer to work on their own, life will inevitably require them to, at times, work with others. It is important that they have opportunities to develop strategies to work and cope in these less than ideal settings. Knowing that there is a balance of independent, partner and group activities will hopefully make working in pairs and groups less daunting.

Professor Roger Breen

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Feb 5, 2013, 7:14pm

Just a thought. Let the thinkers think, and the talkers talk. Then ask them to share in written form, as a PowerPoint or as a video.

BS Boston College English; MA Teachers College C.U. Mathematics
13 years junior high teacher in English and mathematics
37 years mathematics professor FSCJ, Jacksonville, FL
MBTI in 1978 ISTJ, IN 1990 and currently ENTJ
Trained in Cooperative Learning, Paideia Seminars, NLP Basic
Master Teacher Seminar facilitator

Rowie

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Re: Teaching techniques for introverts
on: Mar 24, 2013, 3:48pm

This week in a high school where I do literacy consulting, I simply shared the premise of Susan's book with my students. I told the kids that after 30 years of teaching and ten years of consulting, the book has changed my views on classroom participation. I told the kids I was re-exmining my work and would make an effort to meet the needs of all of my students. As I spoke, I could see the "quiet ones" smiling, as I acknowledged that I,too, am an introvert. Just "putting it out there" can positively change the trust and tone in a classroom.

As long as no one gets hurt, and the electricity stays on, I have always craved rain, snow, ice storms, high winds, and, if we had them in NY, dust storms. When I was little, I’d crawl under the sheet I draped over the bridge table and hide out in my tent. Now, that I’m much older, I just close the front door, listen to the storm, and my own thoughts.

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