What Color is Your Personality? Personality Test TEKS 130.204. 10 A, 10 B, 10 C
Teachers, I’m not sure where I first found this personality test, but it is the behavioral trait assessment tool I’ve used for years before engaging my students in teaming activities. It’s simple, fun, and provides some personal insights, which help students recognize their and others personality types. Recognition of different personality types often helps students identify and resolve discord within their groups before they become dysfunctional. Once they understand why people act in certain ways, they tend to interact more amicably. Objectives: • Identify characteristics of the four basic personality types. • Explain why productive groups are made up of a variety of personality types. • Describe ways to diffuse personality conflicts in a group. PreInstructions: 1. Have students circle one word or phrase per line on the Personality Test page that best describes him or her. 2. When they’ve completed that page, have them circle the corresponding colors on the Tally Sheet. ‐For example: if a student circled sensitive on line 1 of the test page, he/she would circle blue on the tally sheet. 3. Once they complete the tally sheet they need to total the individual colors. Post Instructions: 1. Ask class to raise their hands if they are a dominant red; then yellow; then green; then blue. ‐Explain to students that they may have more than one dominate color. If colors tie, they can raise their hands two or three times (although a 3‐way tie is rare). 2. Go over *descriptions of the four basic personality types (see following page): D. Kacher Health Science Education Consulting http://www.quia.com/pages/dkacher/page32