Your Name

Christopher Cheung

Type of Lesson

Interactivity, Site Curation, and Gaming

Lesson Plan Title

MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Personality Types and Traits

Discipline and Topic

Career Education - The topic of this lesson plan the MBTI personality assessment, a tool
that career counselors use to identify personality traits in students to help find possible
career paths. The lesson will include what the MBTI is, the different personality types
and traits, and how ones personality can lead to different industries/job functions.

Target Population

Grade Level: The target grade level for this lesson is post secondary. Students
participating in this lesson should be college-aged students (undergraduate or graduate).

Population Characteristics: Students participating in this lesson are college students that
are interested in understanding more about themselves and how their personalities and
interests can map to certain industries/job functions.

Lesson Groupings: Students will learn about what the MBTI is as individuals, test their
knowledge of the different types of personalities as individuals, perform a MBTI self-
assessment as individuals, and share their findings with a partner.

Curriculum Links

This lesson supports the explore portion of CCEs Career Development Model. This
portion of the model looks to help students develop self-awareness of your identities,
preferences, strengths, and interests. Understanding your own personality and traits can
be extremely beneficial in identifying a possible career path that aligns with your
interests. Different personality types thrive in different environments, which in the case
of your career can mean either industry or job function.

This lesson is the first step in the career development process. By building a solid
understanding of ones own personality, traits, and interests, students will be able to find
opportunities that align with who they are as people. After this lesson, students will learn
how to conduct a job search on LionSHARE, the Universitys job and internship database
that fit the criteria determined by the students MBTI assessments. The lesson on how to
use LionSHARE logically follows this lesson because it teaches students how to look for
opportunities that are aligned with their interests. First, you build criteria for your ideal
position based on your MBTI assessment, and then feed that criteria into LionSHARE to
narrow down the list of opportunities for the one that best matches your needs.

Objectives

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students what the MBTI assessment is, what the
different personality types and traits are, and help students understand why their interests
should be taken into consideration in the career development process. Using various
means, students will learn these concepts at a high level, then apply their knowledge in a
variety of activities.

At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to:

Map MBTI personality types to specific traits;

Perform a self-MBTI assessment;
Communicate MBTI results to others.

ISTE Student Standards

Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in

choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals,
informed by the learning sciences.

Materials and Timing

Materials:
iPads/Mobile Devices
Prezi Presentation
Self-MBTI Worksheet

Time:
This lesson will take one 45-minute period.

Scope and Sequence

Learn (15 minutes)

1. Explain what the MBTI is.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI is a personality assessment that
helps people better understand themselves in terms of how they think and how
they make decisions. The MBTI results are helpful in determining possible
career paths by identifying possible industries and job functions of interest.
The MBTI is separated into four different sections, with two options in each
section for a total of sixteen possible personality types.
 2. Outline MBTI personality types and traits.
Each letter in the MBTI represents a different personality type, and each of
those types has certain characteristics and traits. When types from each of the
four categories are combined, they create a four-letter code that signifies a
certain personality.

Apply (25 minutes)

1. Use a mobile device to access the MBTI Quizlet matching activity (created by the
instructor). (15 minutes)
Once students have learned about the MBTI and what each of the personality
codes mean, they will match each letter to the appropriate type, and the type to
the appropriate traits.

The following chart outlines all of the different codes, types, and traits, which
will be used to populate the Quizlet matching activity:

2. Use a worksheet to perform self-MBTI assessment. (10 minutes)

When students are finished with the matching activity, they will fill out a
worksheet that helps them self-identify their MBTI results. Students will fill
the worksheet out as individuals.

Share (5 minutes)
1. Share self-MBTI assessment results with partner.
Once students are finished performing their self-MBTI assessment, they will
share their results with a partner. When sharing their results, students will be
asked to explain why they selected one type over another in each category,
which will help show their understanding of the different personality types.

Supplemental Materials
The learn portion of this lesson will include a Prezi presentation that explains what the
MBTI is, and outlines the different personality codes, types, and traits. The Prezi will
also include the chart pictured above that lists summaries for each personality type.

During the apply portion of this lesson, students perform their own self-MBTI assessment
on a worksheet. The worksheet will be broken into four different sections (for each of the
MBTI categories) and ask students to determine which of the two different types best
aligns with their personality. At the end of each section, there will be a space to record
the code for that category. At the end of the worksheet, there will be a space for students
to enter their four-letter MBTI code.

Evaluation of Students

Students will be evaluated on a number of different criteria throughout the lesson, and
their grade for this lesson will be based on the following rubric:

Objectives 1 point 2 points 3 points

Map MBTI Student cannot map Student can map Student can map all
personality types to personality types to some personality personality types to
specific traits. traits. types to traits. traits.

Perform a self- Student cannot Student can partially Student can

MBTI assessment. perform a self- perform a self- correctly perform a
MBTI. MBTI. self-MBTI.

Communicate and Student cannot Student can Student can fully

explain MBTI communicate or somewhat communicate and
results to others. explain their MBTI communicate and explain their MBTI
results. explain their MBTI results.
results.

In order to receive full credit for this lesson, students will need to complete all of the
learning activities and demonstrate an understanding of the material. The rubric includes
three considerations, and three possible points for each consideration. Students must
demonstrate a full and complete understanding of the material in each category to receive
full credit.

Evaluation of the Lesson

In order to determine if this lesson was successful or not, the instructor would look at the
overall student performance in the various learning activities. If students arent able to
successfully map the different personality types to the correct traits, or if students are not
able to successfully perform a self-MBTI assessment, that would indicate a need to
rethink the approach to the lesson. On the other hand, if students do very well with the
learning activity, that indicates that the lesson is meeting the desired objectives. In
addition to student performance during the activity, the instructor should pay attention to
the self-MBTI results and make sure that the results are aligned with the students
personality. A discrepancy would indicate that either the student does not fully
understand the material, or that they performed the self-MBTI assessment incorrectly.

At the end of the semester, this lesson will need to be evaluated to determine if the
content is still relevant, if the tools implemented are still appropriate for the activity and
if students are meeting the desired learning objectives. This is part of the recurring
instructional design process.