1. Teaching Styles

2. Understanding Your “Other Teachers”
Parents
Guardians
Grandparents
Bosses
Friends

3. Understanding Your Instructor
Is information presented verbally, or in handouts, or on the board?
Are you given theories?
Do you get first hand experience with the subject matter?
Are the work assignments useful for class discussions and group projects, or are they just preparation for the test?
How are you evaluated?

4. Most instructors teach the same way that they prefer to learn.
What does that mean for you as the student?

5. Understanding Your Past Instructors
Did you always know exactly what they wanted?
Did you enjoy their teaching?
What did they do to make their classes enjoyable?
What made their teaching difficult to understand?
Is it possible that their preferred learning styles either matched, or didn’t match, yours?

6. Lets complete Activity 2!
Make sure to three-hole punch and include this activity in your binders.

7. The Sequential Instructor
Is idealistic, systematic, and organized
Likes facts and details
Values sequential thinking
Shows more interest in data than in people
Prefers informational forms of instruction, such as reading or a lecture
Has well planned learning activities
Grades answers as right or wrong (no partial credit)
Can sometimes be completely unaware of the emotional climate in a room.
Seeks efficiency
Is a decision maker
Typically teaches subjects that require sequential thinking such as math or computers
Tends to be a firm disciplinarian

8. The Random Instructor Enjoys people
Is non- judgmental and supportive
Prefers role-playing, open discussion, and small group work
Will often individualize instruction
Prefers to create own course of study
Gives imaginative assignments
Displays a learning environment that sequential instructors may view as disorderly
Assumes learning is a function of interest
Prefers self-discovery, experience, and a variety of instructional modes
Tends to follow what he or she feels like doing rather than a structured lesson plan
Typically teaches subjects that require random thinking like art, music, or physical education.
Stresses concepts and conclusions

9. The Balanced Instructor
An equal mix from the sequential and the random preferences
Generally well liked because they attract both sides.

10. Ways to assess your instructor’s style
Listen for clues in how your instructor presents the material
Determine what kinds of questions your instructor asks
Observe your instructor’s behavior
Look at how your instructor is dressed
Volunteer to read each section in our packet?

11. Lets Reflect! Complete the three questions on page 45 of your packet .
Make sure to write in complete sentences!