Unit 2 - Learning and Teaching
Styles
Aim
• Explore different teaching and learning styles and
their application
Learning outcomes
• Describe different learning and teaching styles and
be able to apply this knowledge effectively in
practice.
• Discuss the causes of mismatch between educator
and learner
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Learning styles
Honey and Mumford - VARK -
•Activists •Visual
•Reflectors •Auditory
•Theorists •Read/Write
•Pragmatists •Kinaesthetic
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The quest for knowledge
“What people really want is not
knowledge but certainty.”
Bertrand Russell
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Stages of learning
• Dependent
• Interested
• Involved
• Self directed
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Teaching styles
• Authority
• Motivator
• Facilitator
• Delegator
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Match/mismatch in teacher
and learner styles
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