Teaching With Style

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Teaching With Style. About 25 years ago I wrote a twelve page essay describing the learning styles of students as part of a proposal for a paper session for the American Psychological Association’s annual meetings. At the time I was not engaged in a research program on learning styles, but I was fascinated with the different ways students appeared to learn in classes. The essay was an analysis of critical incidents in my interactions with students. It was the first thing I had ever written about college teaching and thus I had no way to gauge whether others would find my observations intriguing.
Teaching With Style. To my surprise, the proposal was accepted and I suddenly began to worry about the presentation. I questioned whether I could go to a professional meeting in a few months armed only with a twelve page essay. “I’ll get killed by all of the empirical types,” I told myself. Thus, to protect myself, I developed a questionnaire and surveyed students about how they learned. Their responses were then used to supplement my informal observations. In retrospect, I am not convinced the paper was better but I felt less anxious knowing I had a few numbers to support my conclusions. The essay was well received and the editor of the prestigious American Psychologist asked me to submit it for publication. The subsequent article generated a considerable amount of interest in my views on learning styles and dramatically changed my career. I then began to seriously study a variety of teaching-learning issues including the role of student learning styles and teaching styles in the college classroom. Teaching With Style.

Penulis: Anthony F. Grasha, Ph.D.

Penerbit: Alliance Publishers

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