Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning-Teaching Styles
and Classroom Environment
Instructor:
Irina Pomazanovschi, ETRC/IRIM
pomazanovschi@gmail.com
By the end of this session
you will be able to:
State your opinion about learning styles;
Learn about 5 classic teaching styles;
Formulate 3 components of healthy
classroom environment that will help you
motivate your students
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TEACHING STYLE?
1. Authority, or lecture style
The authority model is teacher-
centered and frequently entails
lengthy lecture sessions or one-
way presentations. Students are
expected to take notes or
absorb information.
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This style is acceptable for certain higher- It is a questionable model for teaching
education disciplines and auditorium children because there is little or no
settings with large groups of students. The interaction with the teacher.
pure lecture style is most suitable for
subjects like history that necessitate
memorization of key facts, dates, names,
etc.
2. Personal Model/Demonstrator, or
coach style
The demonstrator retains the
formal authority role while
allowing teachers to
demonstrate their expertise by
showing students what they
need to know.
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This style gives teachers opportunities to Although it’s well-suited for teaching
incorporate a variety of formats including mathematics, music, physical education,
lectures, multimedia presentations and arts and crafts, it is difficult to
demonstrations. accommodate students’ individual needs
in larger classrooms.
3. Facilitator, or activity style
Facilitators promote self-
learning and help students
develop critical thinking skills
and retain knowledge that
leads to self-actualization.
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This style trains students to ask questions Challenges teacher to interact with
and helps develop skills to find answers and students and prompt them toward
solutions through exploration; it is ideal for discovery rather than lecturing facts and
teaching science and similar subjects. testing knowledge through memorization.
4. Delegator, or group style
The delegator style is best-
suited for curriculum that
requires lab activities, such as
chemistry and biology, or
subjects that warrant peer
feedback, like debate and
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creative
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writing.
Guided discovery and inquiry-based Considered a modern style of teaching, it is
learning places the teacher in an observer sometimes criticized as newfangled and
role that inspires students by working in geared toward teacher as consultant
tandem toward common goals. rather than the traditional authority figure.
5. Hybrid, or blended style
… follows an integrated
approach to teaching
that blends the teachers’
personality and interests
with students’ needs and
curriculum-appropriate
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Achieves the inclusive approach of Hybrid style runs the risk of trying to be too
combining teaching style clusters and many things to all students, prompting
enables teachers to tailor their styles to teachers to spread themselves too thin and
student needs and appropriate subject dilute learning.
matter.
Anthony F. Grasha, a noted professor of psychology at the
University of Cincinnati, is credited with developing the classic
five teaching styles. (1996)
He developed a teaching style inventory that has since been adopted and modified
by followers.
Expert: Similar to a coach, experts share knowledge, demonstrate their expertise,
advise students and provide feedback to improve understanding and promote
learning.
Formal authority: Authoritative teachers incorporate the traditional lecture format
and share many of the same characteristics as experts, but with less student
interaction.
Personal model: Incorporates blended teaching styles that match the best
techniques with the appropriate learning scenarios and students in an adaptive
format.
Facilitator: Designs participatory learning activities and manages classroom projects
while providing information and offering feedback to facilitate critical thinking.
Delegator: Organizes group learning, observes students, provides consultation, and
promotes interaction between groups and among individuals to achieve learning
objectives.
Although he developed specific teaching styles, Grasha warned against boxing
teachers into a single category. Instead, he advocated that teachers play multiple
roles in the classroom. He believed most teachers possess some combination of all or
most of the classic teaching styles.
Remain focused on your teaching
objectives and avoid trying to be all things
to all students!
Education authors Harry and Rosemary
Wong declare: “successful teachers
share three common characteristics”:
effective classroom management skills
lesson mastery
positive expectations
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
3 R’s
1. Relationships
What does it mean to ‘understand learners’?
Think of a foreign language you have studied
in the past: what motivated you to learn?
What motivates your learners to learn English?
How Comfortable Classrooms Lead to a Better Student Community. Posted October 19, 2012
in Featured Stories. http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/news/welcoming-classrooms-
better-students/
Classroom Environments: Does Space Make a Difference? MARCH 17, 2011 BY Andrew
Marcinek, Director of Technology and EducatorU.org Co-founder, Boston, MA
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-environments-make-difference-andrew-marcinek
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/734
http://www.ok.gov/octp/documents/Classroom%20Environment%201.pdf
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-environments-make-difference-andrew-marcinek