Extroverted students are hands-on learners who prefer classroom activities and personal involvement in class lessons. Introverted students prefer individual projects and learn most effectively from teacher lectures. An integrated cognitive classroom uses teacher lectures to provide the primary facts for a lesson, but then includes class projects, where students interact with each other and the lesson. For instance, after a lecture on double replacement chemical reactions, the teacher places the class in groups and leads them through an experiment, demonstrating these reactions.
Sensate students are highly practical, relying on experience and practical understanding to solve problems. Intuitive students prefer an abstract approach, learning the ideas and theories behind a solution, and invite the challenge of new ideas. An integrated classroom provides formal lectures and careful projects, which teach the concepts of new ideas, while encouraging students to develop individual conclusions about the information. As an example, a teacher will lecture about the events occurring in an assigned story, but then encourage students to make speculative assessments regarding the way various critical approaches view the content of the stories.
Judger students are decisive, preferring to end each point in a class lecture with a specific fact or acknowledged conclusion. A perceiver student prefers to assess each point, considering alternate points of view and alternate solutions. An integrated class provides specific information regarding each lecture point, while supplying thoughtful questions students can debate on their own after the class. For instance, a history teacher may lecture on the facts surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s death, while ending the lecture with a question about the way history would have remembered him if he had lived to complete his presidency.
Feeler students appreciate classroom cohesion, the ability of students to get along and work together in the classroom. Thinker students prefer lively debate and the revelations, which occur through those debates in a class. An integrated class provides a safe environment for student debate, allowing students to comment on the teacher’s points, while encouraging classmates to be supportive. As an example, a teacher in a government class allows students to comment, and even disagree, with lecture points, so long as those comments are directed at the teacher and are respectful to the views of other classmates.