Teaching with Personality:
Applying Your DISC Personality Profile to Enhance Your Lectures and Seminars
EURECA-PRO Lifelong Learning Academy - Online Course
University involved: University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
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Course Type:
Online workshop
Number of places:
Limited to 20
Starting date:
18/09/2025
Ending date:
18/09/2025
Targeted audience: academic staff, students, administrative staff and general public – no previous knowledge required!
Place of delivery: Online | Via designated Moodle course link (and the recording): www.moodle.eurecapro.tuc.gr/enrol/index.php?id=116
Objectives:
- To help educators develop greater self-awareness of their personal communication and teaching style through the DISC personality framework.
- To improve teaching effectiveness by aligning personality traits with didactic strategies.
- To foster adaptive teaching skills by recognising and responding to the diverse personality profiles of students.
- To support confident, authentic, and engaging teaching through reflection and practical exercises.
Competencies:
Participants will strengthen the following competencies:
- Self-Awareness and Personal Insight: Understanding their own DISC profile and how it influences communication and teaching behaviour.
- Adaptive Communication: Tailoring messages and methods to resonate with students of different personality types.
- Interpersonal Sensitivity: Recognising and valuing personality diversity in student interactions.
- Didactic Flexibility: Choosing suitable methods, formats, or classroom climates that align with one’s teaching style and student needs.
- Reflective Practice: Evaluating and evolving one’s teaching identity based on personal strengths and student feedback.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, teachers will be able to:
- Explain the core dimensions of the DISC personality model and identify their own profile.
- Recognise how different personality types tend to communicate, learn, and respond in educational settings.
- Apply DISC insights to improve communication and engagement in lectures, seminars, or group discussions.
- Develop teaching strategies that leverage their own personality strengths while accommodating diverse learner needs.
- Reflect critically on their teaching style and identify opportunities for further growth using the DISC framework.
Program
Agenda of Interactive Workshop:
- Warm-up
- Introduction to personality
- The DISG model
- Communication styles
- Recognising other types
- Implementation
- Using the DISC model in lectures
- Exercise: Connecting Traits to Teaching
- Reflection
Evaluation criteria
At the end of workshops, participants are required to fill in a self-evaluation checklist:
Tick the boxes that apply to your experience in this seminar:
Understanding:
☐ I can describe the four DISC personality types and their main characteristics.
☐ I can identify my own DISC profile.
☐ I understand how my personality influences how I communicate and teach.
Communication & Interaction:
☐ I can recognise how other personality types may behave or communicate in a learning environment.
☐ I am aware of how to adjust my communication style when interacting with different personality types.
☐ I feel more confident in managing diverse communication styles in my classroom.
Teaching Practice:
☐ I have reflected on my teaching style in relation to my DISC profile.
☐ I am aware of ways to adapt my teaching to better suit different student needs.
☐ I see value in using personality insights to improve classroom dynamics.
Reflection & Growth:
☐ I can name at least one teaching strength connected to my personality.
☐ I have thought about how my personality affects student engagement.
☐ I am motivated to continue exploring how personality shapes teaching and learning.
Duration
| Course duration | 2 hours |
| Workshops | 2 hours |
| Lectures | — |
| Student preparation | — |
| Student homework | — |
