About

My name is Mary Clayson and I love to teach! Currently, I am teaching English to Chinese students and I have loved it for the past three years. I have my Masters in Education and I have been a teacher since 2005. I have taught many different ages (2nd, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades) and children in different situations through that time.  I felt constantly like there was something better I could be doing in some part of my instruction. Each year I felt that I was doing a better job and reaching more of my students. I still wish I could go back and teach the children I did at the beginning of my career with the knowledge I have now! But alas, we just move forward.

One book that changed my teaching drastically was Dr. Keirsey's book Please Understand Me II. This book discussed a personality typing system and how each person falls into one of the four main types and then one of the four subtypes of that group. When reading my type, I was floored at how accurate it was and how understood I felt! After researching this and discussing for a while with my husband (the one who introduced me to the book), I started to think about how this could change my teaching! If I could figure out the main group of each student, I would have a huge insight into what drove them and start to individualize instruction and management for them! My mind was blown!

I was so excited and started to observe my students and was surprised by how quickly I was starting to realize their main type and how it was already giving ideas on how to teach them better! I started noticing how much it seemed to help my students; they were being drawn into each lesson as I worked to individualize even group lessons to help them. It was fantastic to see!

It wasn't too long ago that my husband suggested that I help other teachers and parents start to have access to this information to help their kids learn better and have a better relationship with them through a blog or website of some kind. I honestly felt overwhelmed and it has taken me a while to actually dive in. Well, here I go! I hope you can find something that helps you out with your class, students, children, friends, family, or even just yourself!

Thanks for checking us out!

Listen HERE to the Personality Cipher podcast.