Lecture "Teacher personality"
Lecture "Teacher personality"
Learning processes in the transitional space - empirically investigating and modelling the practical phases of student teachers (LÜP)
The final presentation of the International Workshop
"Learning in Transition: Fostering Teacher Education"
"Teacher personality - between
Between desirable diversity and necessary competence"
Lecture as pdf-file for download 
by Prof. Dr Johannes Mayr, Institute for Teaching and School Development (IUS), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt will take place on Thursday, 04.06.15 at 16.00 in Lecture Hall 1 in A 14 at the University of Oldenburg. The ideal teacher personality is a myth. On the contrary, it is possible to be a "good teacher" in very different ways and with very different and distinct individual personalities. However, teaching research has found that certain personality traits form a solid basis for the academic and professional success of teachers. Paying attention to relatively stable personal characteristics of teachers seems to thwart the aim of teacher training, which is to bring about change, e.g. to develop subject-specific and pedagogical competences. On the other hand, basic personality traits and interest orientations can be used in career counselling to bring people into the teacher training programme who are likely to complete it successfully and later work successfully as teachers. And conclusions can be drawn from the personality approach for the didactics of teacher training that make it more effective than if one is subject to a naive "learnability illusion". The lecture will present theoretical concepts, empirical findings and practical examples.
About Prof. Dr Johannes Mayr
Prof. em. Dr Johannes Mayr is a clinical psychologist who completed his habilitation in educational psychology at the University of Lüneburg and taught at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt until 2014. His experience as a teacher and as a trainer and further education provider for lecturers, together with his research into the teaching profession, is incorporated into the online programme ‘Career Counselling for Teachers’ (CCT), a career guidance service for lecturers that is also widely used in Germany. He is involved in the design and evaluation of selection procedures for trainee lecturers, offers training to develop classroom management skills, and is actively involved in the training of mentors in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Another key focus for him is investigating the effectiveness of teacher training. Since October 2014, he has been an associate member of the Institute for Teaching and School Development.