BBC: Introvert... and proud! -2

Introverts might find it easier working in groups, but with smaller groups, and they work in pairs with extroverts...The teachers should design a classroom for all the students too, to contribute. Whenever a teacher is teaching a question in class let them allow for wait time for students to process the information before answering the question. Just for people to think through that question. Thinking, pairing, and sharing: those three strategies will help the introverts to speak out. 

Dr Peter Aloka is talking about some very clever pairing there. If you put two introverts together they might not say anything. An extrovert is likely to talk, but won't intimidate- or overpower- their introvert partner as much as a large group would. 

So the idea is that with fewer people- in a small group or a pair- the introvert will have enough time and space to express their ideas. And because their ideas have been thought through- or carefully considered-, their contribution is likely to be worth waiting for, So...Think, Pair, Share. 

Hmm. I like that. OK, so I think it's time to share the answer to today's quiz quesiton. I asked: who first used the term 'extrovert'? Was it...

a) Sigmund Freud    b) Friedrich Nietzsche   or    c) Carl Jung?

I said... Carl Jung. 

And you were...right, Alice. So thinking things through really works! 'Introvert' and 'extrovert' are the two basic personality types according to the theories of the 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to these theories, an introvert is a person whose interest lies with their own feelings and thoughts. In contrast to an extrovert, whose interest lies with other people and the outside world.