Three considerations for developing learner-centered approaches to professional development of adult educators are learning orientations, teaching orientations, and career stages. Strategies include examining one's own teaching and learning beliefs, analyzing learners' career stages, and supporting knowledge construction and meaning making.…

The Canfield Learning Styles Inventory and Canfield Instructional Styles Inventory were completed by 15 career and technical education student teachers; learning styles for the students of 3 teachers were measured. A majority of teachers prefer a high degree of organization and activities involving others. Only modest correlations between student…

Learning style traits involve a preference for or aversion to five types of stimuli: environmental, emotional, sociological, physical, and psychological. Teachers and students can learn to vary their teaching/learning styles to accommodate differences and enhance instruction. (SK)

Training styles range from director to listener, interpreter, and coach. Rules to train by include (1) project being in charge; (2) build rapport with and within the group; and (3) balance participation to achieve desired outcomes. (SK)

Teachers must teach the students in the right way to prepare them to face the world in varied situations. The strategies demonstrating the competence and concepts of teaching for meaning purpose of the educational system in all disciplines are described.

Using a recent study that examined the effectiveness of a particular approach to improving individual university teaching as a case study, this paper examines some of the challenges inherent in educational research, particularly research examining the effects of interventions to improve teaching. Aspects of the research design and methodology and…

The authors examined the relative importance of 4 attributes of decision making for student evaluation of teaching effectiveness: perceived knowledge base of the professor, professor's delivery style, course organization, and course workload. Participants were 234 counseling graduate students from 6 midwestern universities in the United States.…

The focus of this article is to examine the notions of language learning, heritage (referring to tradition) and ancestry (descendants & properties passed on), and cultural identification for Urdu-speaking immigrant children now living in Canada. This article provides a detailed ethnographic account of an innovative language program developed…

Using data from a national survey of college faculty, this study examines faculty members' preferred teaching practices as one aspect of their professional behavior that may reflect the spiritual dimension of their own lives. Findings show that faculty who are highly spiritual are more likely than their less spiritual colleagues to use…

The purpose of this article is to probe teacher beliefs about the cultures and curricula of mathematics classroom. By examining the case of a teacher in New York City--his teaching practices and the resulting learning environment fostered there--certain pedagogical and epistemological beliefs can be highlighted. The author first examines some…

During the 2004-05 school year, Parkview Elementary School experienced a dramatic shift from a focus on authentic assessment and responsive, individualized teaching to a one-size-fits-all approach to literacy assessment and instruction. In an effort to boost test scores, the district mandated the use of Open Court Reading, a scripted language arts…

The primary objective of this study was to further understand Tibetan university students' learning styles through investigating Tibetan university teachers' teaching styles and their preferred student learning styles. This objective was achieved by analysing the interview data from a group of Tibetan university teachers and the comparative survey…

The central goal of the present study was to examine how a child's emotion regulation ability may moderate the relations between teaching styles and anxiety in childhood. Participants were 33 children (21 males, 12 females; mean age 7.5 years, standard deviation = 0.42), their mothers and teachers. Children completed the Early Adolescent…

The majority of the teacher candidates in my methods classes come from a background that is different from the primarily African American students at my professional development school. Because these teacher candidates continue to be predominantly White middle-class females, the gap between their cultural comfort zone and their students' cultural…

Since the late 1990s, the overall number of international students studying at tertiary level in New Zealand has increased over 400% and, although enrollments have declined recently, there are still significant numbers of overseas students. This situation has brought continuing pedagogical challenges for tertiary teachers and students. The main…