This study investigated the effects of personality and cognitive style preferences on preferred teaching styles. Preservice teachers completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Educational Cognitive Style Inventory, and the Learning Styles Inventory. Personality types, especially thinking/feeling, significantly predicted the importance of…

This study compares the effects of command, task, and individual program styles of teaching as they affect specific skills in alley soccer, a game knowledge test on alley soccer, and personal and social adjustment. A battery of skills tests, a game knowledge test on alley soccer, and the California Test of Personality were given to 221…

"The Capital Kid" is a cowboy persona used by the author when she teaches capitalization skills. Her teaching style and the games used are described. (SJL)

Investigated the relationship between applied behavioral training and reinforcement preferences of classroom teachers. Data obtained from the Positive Reinforcement Observation Schedule, a paired comparison task, indicated minimal differential reinforcement preferences for classroom teachers with no training, limited training, or extensive…

Styles are hypothetical constructs that help explain the teaching-learning process. Ten learning styles and six teaching styles are suggested. (Author)

There are many effective styles of instruction; and every teacher should be skilled in at least one, and preferably in several. (Author/MLF)

Provides a questionnaire with which English teachers can determine whether their instructional techniques are artistic, mechanical, or somewhere between these two extremes. (DD)

Reports on a study of the relationship between the perceptual learning style and teaching style of 138 junior college educators. Indicates that the instructors tended to teach the way they preferred to learn. Discusses implications for practice. (DMM)

To enhance the quality of learning among children, physical educators have the responsibility of challenging students to develop their higher order thinking skills. A dominating style of teaching may be in conflict with asking students to think. (MT)

Effective teachers have classes with a life and spirit of their own, a quality that grabs students. The author calls this prehensive teaching, from the Latin word "prehension," meaning to seize, grasp, apprehend by the senses. Ways to restore the prehensive nature of teaching are suggested. (MT)

Affectionately remembers a college professor and his particular approach to poetry reading and discourse. Refers to a Sufi tale regarding teaching and learning to demystify previous philosophical and pedagogical confusion. (JK)

This article reviews two decades of research on clarity of teachers' presentations in order to see if the promise of clarity as an effective teacher behavior in early research was justified and to evaluate whether claims have materialized. (Author/MT)

This study measured the effect of an eclectic instructional approach on psychomotor skills achievement of 156 junior high school students when implemented in lieu of the teacher's preferred instructional style. The eclectic approach produced higher scores in nine of twelve tests and showed insignificant gains in the other three tests. (MT)

Describes recent findings on lecturing styles derived from study of 258 lecturers in two English universities. Factor analysis yielded six scales for identifying approaches to lecturing. Subsequent cluster analysis yielded five distinctive types of lecturing styles. Styles were associated significantly with subject matter, marginally with status,…

A detailed description of one teacher's use of error analysis charts which point out weak spots in the transcription skills of individual students. (HD)