I used this lesson with my advanced middle school students and they thought it was really interesting. I found the 20 question MBTI test from here: http://www.russellrowe.com/Myers-Briggs%20Typology%20System.htm

The vocabulary on the test is fairly difficult. I recommend reading the test out loud and rephrasing the words. Then students will write down an X under column A or column B on their answer sheet. When they are finished they will count the number of X's for each column to find their MBTI type.

For the powerpoint, I tried to use famous people that my students would recognize. Some websites attribute different MBTI types to each person, like Mother Theresa is an ISFJ or INFJ. Not sure how accurate those are but it's just something for the students to think about.

I got the percentages for each MBTI type in Korea from this blog: http://blog.naver.com/judycanedy?Redirect=Log&logNo=110091322706

There are some traits to describe each type in the powerpoint, like loyal, friendly etc. Then you can give them a list of ideal careers for their personality type.

Students can fill out the form with their information during the class.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions to improve this lesson or make it easier! Hope you all find this interesting!

Earlier in the year, I gave many of the students the pig personality test.  The one where you draw a picture of a pig and you can get some insight as to the person's personality.  Anyway, thanks for this idea, I'll be using it for winter camp. 

There's an example at the bottom of the score sheet. Just count the number of O's or check marks for column A and column B. The one with the bigger number is the letter for your MBTI type. For example, If you have 3 A's and 2 B's, you will circle the letter 'E', which means you are Extroverted. And so on for the other 3 columns until you have your 4-letter MBTI type.

How accurate is this? It says 2% of koreans have this personality type and out of 20 kids most of them were of the supposedly rare personalities. It made it more interesting for them but I just wondered if I had an unusual bunch of kids or if the results were not accurate.

Yes but it says that 2% of Koreans are this 'type' meaning that it should be a 1 in 50 ratio.

How accurate is this? It says 2% of koreans have this personality type and out of 20 kids most of them were of the supposedly rare personalities. It made it more interesting for them but I just wondered if I had an unusual bunch of kids or if the results were not accurate.

The tests are not always accurate.  Actually, the tests get one category wrong quite often.  I'm sure they are even more likely to be wrong when they are simplified and taken in a second language.  To confirm your results, you have to understand the traits in question and reflect on yourself.  I imagine this would be difficult in an ESL classroom, because the MBTI terms mean something quite specific. 

Also, the younger the student, the harder it is to determine their type.  It should be clear whether students are extraverted or introverted, and whether students are judgers or perceivers.  Their dominant function (which could either be intuiting, sensing, feeling, or thinking) should also be well developed.  However, people usually start developing their secondary function (which is their type in the remaining category) during their pre-teen/early teenage years.  There is a different test which only contains three categories for children.  Obviously, different people develop differently, so some middle schoolers might still have a largely undeveloped secondary function.

This lesson sounds like fun, and like a great way to teach some personality terms, but I wouldn't count on its accuracy.

What a great idea! If only I could use this instead of the textbook ideas... :(

Link to related thread: http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,774.0.html

I modified the powerpoint from this post and also added all of the personality test questions.  I thought that them having to look at the powerpoint for the questions would save a lot of paper (I teach over 700 students per week, so that is a lot of copies) and also force the students to follow along with me at the same pace.

I  have also attached the worksheet that I gave them.  For the first part, I had them choose three words to describe themselves.  Before doing the test, we reviewed and learned some new personality vocabulary, so they had those words to draw upon.  After they took the test, I showed them a few slides to help them with the scoring.  Then, we looked at the results.  When each student's type came up, I had them write down the adjectives that describe their personality.  Afterwards, depending on the time left, you could also have the students compare the words that they chose to the personality test words and write up whether or not the test was right (I ran out of time to do this in my classes).

I have a couple of other notes about how this went in my classes.  In general, the girls classes liked the personality test a lot.  While going through the questions it can be a little tedious for them, but in the end they all seemed to really enjoy it.  As for the boys classes, I would suggest only doing this with relatively well-behaved classes because it is difficult to make sure that the students are following along. By the end of the week (I teach the same class over and over again all week), I had created a different lesson for some of the rowdier boys classes.

I think my kids will get a kick out of this!