{"id":64,"date":"2007-12-23T22:53:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T02:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-12-25T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T18:40:32","slug":"creative-edge-education-respects-differing-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/creative-edge-education-respects-differing-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"CREATIVE EDGE EDUCATION RESPECTS DIFFERING GIFTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

In business settings, there is great appreciation for the fact that teams need a balance of people with different skills, interests, and talents.<\/strong> The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one personality test widely used in organizations to help co-workers come to appreciate the \u201cdiffering gifts\u201d each brings to the table and to avoid conflict by respecting these differences. The MBTI helps businesses to hire personnel, organize teams, and increase conflict-free collaboration.<\/p>\n

The MBTI is also widely used in education, to identify students\u2019 differing gifts and to offer guidance in terms of career choices utilizing various gifts. <\/strong>The MBTI, has proved highly valid in predicting future career choices and guiding students into careers which are a good fit for their particular skills, talents, and interests (Myers, Gifts Differing<\/em>, 1980).<\/p>\n

Kiersey\u2019s Please Understand Me<\/em>, Gardner\u2019s Multiple Intelligences, and Mel Levines\u2019 All Kinds Of Minds all offer additional perspectives for appreciating the \u201cdiffering gifts\u201d of each child. <\/strong>See Personality Tests<\/a> for thorough descriptions and sample tests from these models.<\/p>\n

The Career Academy model for high school education, sponsored by the federal Department of Labor in the USA, allows students to become exposed to a variety of possible career choices through hands-on, real-life activities.<\/strong> It also helps students to specialize in an area of interest leading directly into actual jobs or next-step accreditation programs, such as community colleges and technical schools, as well as colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

Read Dr. McGuire’s article, “Don’t Fight ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Community-Wide Intervention for ADHD, School Failure, and Juvenile Delinquency”<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Spend some fun time with holiday company, taking some of the Personality Tests<\/a>\u00a0and comparing your “differing gifts,” your Temperaments, your varying Multiple Intelligences, your Shadow Side in the Enneagram.<\/p>\n

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In business settings, there is great appreciation for the fact that teams need a balance of people with different skills, interests, and talents. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one personality test widely used in organizations to help co-workers come to appreciate the \u201cdiffering gifts\u201d each brings to the table and to avoid conflict by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,16,15,116,3,4,11],"tags":[760,120,749,139,759,137,140,737,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}