Chapter 4 Instructional Methods and Learning Styles

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Stephen Petrina. (in press). Curriculum and Instruction For Technology Teachers125Chapter 4Instructional Methods and Learning StylesHow do we factor the variability of students into our Instructional Methods ? All students aredifferent, and yet there are many commonalties from student to student. Should students simplydesign their own education, an education that theoretically would be tailored to their needs?Should students be left to their own desires and needs, as Rousseau advocated in Emile in the late1700s and as A. S. Neill advocated in Summerhill in the 1960s?

Teaching Methods General models and families of teaching methods are guides for designing educational activities, environments and experiences. They help to specify methods of teaching and patterns for these methods. Instructional strategies, or teaching methods, depend on a number of factors such as the

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