Skip to content
MN School Docs

Explore a NatureType

Role required: Teacher, Counselor, or Administrator

This workflow takes you from a student’s active NatureTypes to the full NatureType description — including the cross-cultural expressions and connected skills. Useful before a career or direction conversation with a student.

Steps

Section titled “Steps”

  1. Open a student’s Student Profile from Classes or the Counselor Queue.

  2. Scroll to the Active NatureTypes section.

  3. Click the name of any NatureType. The NatureTypes explorer opens.

  4. The explorer shows:

    • The NatureType name and a plain-language description of the pattern
    • Cross-cultural expressions — how this pattern appears across different settings and historical contexts
    • Connected skills — capabilities that tend to develop naturally from this combination of Natures and Intelligences
    • Career areas — broad directions where this NatureType tends to find engagement

  5. Use the back button in the explorer to return to the student’s profile.

Using this in a student conversation

Section titled “Using this in a student conversation”

The NatureType description is written to be readable with a student — not just about them. In a career or direction conversation, try opening the NatureType explorer together and asking the student: “Does this description feel accurate to you?” or “Which of these career areas sounds interesting, even if you’re not sure why?”

That reaction — whether the description resonates or does not — is often a more useful data point than the score itself.

Section titled “Related”