Learning Styles and Teaching strategies

In todays world, it is important that in primary and secondary schools they develop skills and learn and master skills so that they have the necessary skills, personal develpment, communication and social skills to contribute to society. The teachers play a crucial role in developing their learning ability and to enhance learning outcomes so that they develop their full potential as well contribute to personal development. That is teachers must consider their impact on learning by examining their teaching strategies continually and professionally develop their teaching skills to improve learning outcomes of all students.

Learning styles of students play a crucial role with other factors, which determines to some extent the ability of teachers to improve students learning outcomes continually. In a class, students lean differently and they have their own styles of learning. For example, some learn by visual methods, some learn by verbal means, some students learn by doing hands on activities, as well some students use multiple methods of learning, some students learn by listening to music and some students learn by doing project work and solving real world problems. So if teachers only use lecture method  only a few students will be interested to lean and others may not be interested and motivated to learn and there fore may be involved in disruptive behavior in class. In effect, teachers must consider learning styles of students in developing teaching strategies and class room activities to motivate students to learn and use a variety of teaching strategies to enahance learning time. As well,  teach students how to learn effectively as well as improve their thinking skills and problem solving skills. In addition teachers can improve social skills and collaborative learning in class.

They must continually get feedback from students so that they can continually change their teaching strategies and cater to students prior knowledgre in a subject and to cater to students interests and learninig style differences particualarly students come from different socio-economic backround and have different ability and they come from diverse cultural backgrounds. That is, they must be aware of the impact of culture on how students learn and must incorporate this knowledge in to their teaching strategies, assessment methods, activities in class and above all to watch for the cultural norms and give respect to their values and beleifs. That is, the teacher must consider the viability of student centered teaching methods rather than teacher centered teaching methods in such circumstances.

As discussed above, it is obvious that learning styles are an important variable, which affect how students learn and the teaching strategies must be in tune with the learning styles to improve learning outcomes and the teacher must be a facilitator and mentor for students learning rather than instrcting students to learn and use lecture method and text book activities alone in teaching students to learn. In most classes, this method of teaching is in effective in improving learning outcome of all students. However, they may work in some circumstances. There fore, teachers must consider the role learning styles play on learning and its impact on learning outcomes and motivation of students and concentration in class acitivities as well as behavior. That is, they must develop teaching strategies to account for differences in learning styles and develop class activities, which relates to their interests and prior knowledge and cultural norms. In doing so, teachers can definately succeed in their effort to improve students learning outcomes of all student as well teach them how ro learn effectively.