Socionics: Profile Training in School

Features of profile training

Nowadays, in the mass school, specialized training classes are often created — mathematical, artistic, economic, and others. I will further call this type of training profile. The peculiarity of specialized classes is that in order to increase the effectiveness of student learning, students are subjected to a selection procedure.

Selection is usually carried out in two ways: through academic performance in major disciplines or through psychological testing according to tests of relevant abilities. Social analysis allows you to complete the profile classes much faster and more technologically.

The socionic technique that solves this problem is based on the typological groups of installations on the type of activity that you already know. The socionically competent teacher will easily determine which of the four settings to choose as the base for selecting students in the class of the desired profile.

For a class with a humanitarian or artistic bias, children of humanitarian social types should form the backbone. For training in business, economics, technology, the class is completed mainly at the expense of managerial sociotypes. Classes of mathematical, physical or other fundamental-scientific profile will be effectively taught if they include children of one of the group of scientist types. There are far fewer classes with a social bias (trade, advertising agents, service, and other professions in the “person-to-person” sphere). Therefore, children of social types can enter as an additional contingent in classes of humanitarian and management profile.

It is extremely harmful to create specialized classes according to the principle of “purity of rows”, when scientific scientists are engaged exclusively in scientific research, management is taught only to managers, etc. The host installation must be “diluted” adjacent to it. The recommended proportion is 3: 2, i.e., for three people of the lead installation, there are two subcontractors.

For example, in a research classroom, for every three student scholars should add two students from other installations. And of these two, one must necessarily be a humanitarian, and the second or manager, for the social. Scientists more easily find a common language with intellectually oriented humanities than with purely practical attitudes toward management or sociality.

In the acquisition of economic and business classes, this principle of selection works the same way. For every three managers you need to attract two representatives of other installations. Of these two complementary types, one must be a social (for the reason already mentioned, a community of material and practical interests), and the other must either be a Scientist or a humanitarian. Humanitarian scholarship is the least suitable for management activities, as the administration uses the full power of sensory functions, which are the most independent in humanitarian types.

The next problem that confronts teachers when the profile class is already establishedis what technologies of training to attract for work? There is no doubt that it is unreasonable to train specialized classes with conventional methods. On the other hand, innovative educators have developed a large number of specialized creative approaches. Which authors' techniques will give the greatest effect in your class? I have already touched on this issue, talking about the principle of selecting a software package and methods for the core class.

However, you can also express your own creativity by creating an original technology for teaching the managerial, social, humanitarian or research class. To facilitate your task, I will outline the main psychological features of the sociotypes of these attitudes. It makes sense to take these features into account when working on your own program.

I also ask you to take into account that the representatives of these typological groups are immersed in the vortex of everyday life, which affects them both positively and negatively. Therefore, there are groups of low, undeveloped levels and groups with the same typological composition, but a high level of development. Check out the comparison table below, which will tell you what level you begin to teach your students.

Installation	Low level of development	High level of development
Manage	rudeness, despotism, intellectual lack of development, primitive interests, imposing one’s will, mechanism, soullessness	organization, responsibility, attitude to coordinate efforts, business cooperation, consideration of mutual interests, objective control, ownership of emotions
Socials	philistinism, mood entertainment, gossip, easy life without effort, flirting, scandalous, nepotism	care, fair distribution of benefits, respect for human rights, collectivism, sociability, benevolence, family authority
Humanity.	reasoning, mysticism, fear of life, self-care, low competitiveness, decadence, theatrical effects instead of specific technologies	elevation, spiritual search, noble ideals, the ability to selflessly love and believe, empathy, psychologism, mastery of the word
Sayent.	unrealistic projects, isolation from life, schematism, reassessment of their intellectual qualities, helplessness in the organization	democracy of communication, communication with practice, socially significant discoveries, high intelligence, breadth of outlook, independence of judgment, optimism

If you, as a teacher, create a high-level psychological atmosphere in the classroom, then, without a doubt, deserve the gratitude not only of your students, but of the whole society. This is the way in which sociopsychology comes to school and radically transforms, both in form and content, this most important institution of society.