Question

What do you want your To change in her teaching style
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Answer 1

Eleven tutor counsellors in the British Open University were interviewed to ascertain how they responded to the idea of using a facilitative teaching style in their tutorials. Their responses have been analysed by a systems model of the tutorial process which indicates the extent to which they possessed a coherent framework, appropriate for teaching in a distance education teaching system. The interviews revealed factors which have echoes in student learning research and which, taken together, offer a tentative explanation of why some tutor counsellors were more amenable to changing their teaching styles than others. This has implications for staff development, not only in distance education systems but for teaching in general.

Answer 2

"Phillip Freeman has given a good answer here, and I don’t have much to add, but I am putting in my two-penneth simply because I want to balance out the numbers a little, given that the answers overwhelmingly support one opinion."

"As I believe Phillip does, I agree with the fundamental core of all of the answers here, which is that teachers must be responsive to their students’ needs. That is essentially what teaching is on a philosophical level."

"That said, students’ needs are complex. Ultimately, what students need is an effective and competent teacher, and in most cases, students don’t know what that is. Of course, the average student is not well-versed in learning theory or pedagogy and contemporary mehtodology. As such, if a teacher is competent, trained and experienced, then that teacher probably knows what is best for his or her students."

"Of course, if a student is struggling with a particular teachers’ approach and/or methodology, then the problem needs to be addressed, and there are many many possible reasons for such a problem. But “Learning Styles” insofar as this refers to formal theories on learning style, such as Multiple Intelligences, VAK, Left–Right Brain, etc. should not be paid much consideration in this equation. Almost all of these theories and their ilk have long since been discredited or debunked, and are now considered myths at best and cases of educational research fraud at worst."