Accelerated instructor
We can help with all learing types.
willy,
this is true & by demonstrating we know our subject & what we're talking about we can typically build that respect & trust.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I like to refer my teaching style more as little league coaching, rather than instructing. I am a little more hands on and demonstrative. I have to teach the students and motivate them to perform while gaining their respect and trust.
William,
I think this is a great demonstration of using a variety of teaching techniques to reach all learners.
Dr. Ryan Meers
I tend to treat my students as employees of my 'clinic' and base a majority of my lectures around clinical applications. I reserve my ppt presentations for the formal introduction of material, and follow that with clinical applications. I find that getting students out of their seats and work on projects that are tangible and reinforce learned topics. I also layer on previously learned clinical activities providing a staircase approach to their clinical training.
This is a good point. I would guess that very few teachers or instructors know anything about learning styles. It was not a required course of study, nor was it taught in education classes. I took it as an elective. I never saw any evidence of it while teaching elementary school. The teachers were given a lesson plan template that covered the different learning styles, but I doubt that most of the teachers understood that that was the basis of the template.
Very true & I think in this we need to make sure that we're not trying to reach the diverse learners with our preferred style of learning.
Ryan
I agree with Stu, you have to keep an open mind and be willing to take whatever is thrown at you, whether it be different learning types or personalities.
In order for us to be successful in assisting with different learning styles, we as instructors have to learn them ourselves.
