Learning and Teaching Styles
1.1 Identifying your own learning style and how it affects your teaching
Today’s professor is knowledgeable about several frameworks for analyzing learning and teaching styles and uses this information to guide lesson planning. Keeping different learning styles in mind will make us better facilitators. We can use the knowledge of learning styles when coaching students, when selecting learning activities and when assessing student performance. This introduction provides a brief description of Learning Styles and its importance in teaching.
- Challenging the Notion of Learning Styles
- Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
- Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching
- Taking a Look at the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory
- Teaching for Transformation: From Learning Theory to Teaching Strategies
- What are Learning Styles?
- What’s Your Learning Philosophy?
Teaching Styles
Perhaps, even more important than knowing the learning style of our students, is knowing our own learning style. Our preferred way of learning will influence how we teach and coach others. In fact, the way we prefer to learn is the strongest influence on how we are likely to teach!
Complete the following survey to examine your own teaching style:
- Stack the Deck in Favor of Your Students by Using the Four Aces of Effective Teaching
- Transforming Your Teaching Style: A Student-Centered Approach
- Teaching Implication of Learning Theories
- Teaching Perspectives Inventory
Learning and Teaching Theories & Application
Here are some links to the most commonly referenced teaching and learning styles used in education today:
- Evaluation of Constructivist Learning
- Instructional Design Based on Cognitive Theory
- Instructional Design & Learning Theory
- Learning Theories
- Overview of Learning Theories
- Theories of Learning