Module 3 - Teaching and Learning Styles

Integrating Teaching, Personality, and Learning Styles into the Classroom

As an adult education teacher you fill many roles in the classroom. Some of these roles include:

• Determining the areas of student strengths and weaknesses and then creating and assigning exercises that serve as the focus for a learning activity
• Creating a setting in which students will be comfortable sharing their ideas
• Assisting students in finding relevant information
• Redirecting students by helping them evaluate their strategies and solutions

You want to satisfy each of these roles with expertise. Teaching with this type of style demands that you explore "Who am I as a teacher?" and "What do I want to become?" The payoff of knowing our own learning and teaching style is that we move away from blindly teaching as we were taught or simply repeating how we taught the course the last time. Instead, our instructional strategies become grounded in a conceptual base of knowledge about teaching and learning styles.

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