Teaching Style Analysis

Mostly everyone would agree that a child’s education is critical to their development as a scholar. On the contrary would most people agree that how our next generation is taught will influence not only their academic success but also their motivation and behavior? Educators of past generations typically conformed to the “one size fits all” model of teaching which resulted in predominantly lecture style teaching. George Fox Professor, Donna Webb (2016), says we have made great advancements of transitioning from teachers being “’the sage on the stage’ to a more appropriate student-centered learning environment.” The more this topic of teaching styles came up in my life, the more interested I became.
When you try to think about how different teaching styles affect students it can be easy to fall into the stereotype that teachers are meant to give information and students should retain …show more content…
The lecture style teaching would fall into this category. The next on the spectrum is the “practice style”, this style is different from command because the learner is given the opportunity to make some decisions but with teacher parameters. For example, this would be seen if a child practiced gripping a golf club on their own based off of what they were just taught (Goldberger, 2012, p. 271). Next is “reciprocal style” where the decisions are able to be made by the leaner with a partner. This results in immediate feedback from a peer when one person observes and gives feedback to the other and then they switch roles. “Self-check” is the next style where there are teacher parameters but are focused on the improvement of the learner. The last of the teacher-centered styles is “inclusion.” This style of teaching is set up where the difficulty of the task is relative to the