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.

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:

Learning and Teaching Theories & Application

Here are some links to the most commonly referenced teaching and learning styles used in education today: