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Teaching Styles

A teacher who clearly understands the possibilities and limits of his or her teaching style can make more consistent judgments about how best to use this medium (Grasha, 1996). The literature pointed out that adults need to be taught in a manner that is different from that used to teach children. Grasha (1996), Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, wrote Teaching with Style, which describes how an understanding of teaching styles and learning styles can help faculty enhance their teaching. The model presented by Grasha was used in this study, to investigate teaching styles in Salvadorean technological institutes.

Holmes (1995) reported that the curriculum must be changed in order to prepare children for the work force beyond the year 2003. The cries of the mass media, politicians, and parents include "We must change our methods of teaching," and "Our students are not properly prepared for the technologies of the future" (Holmes, 1995, p. 14). While these fears may or may not be substantiated with regard to children, it is the adult

population that needs immediate attention. The truth is that adults are immediately confronted with the realities of our rapidly changing world, and they need to provide guidance to all children, so that knowledge can be transferred through many generations to come. Since the adult also needs to be trained, adult education should be viewed as an incorporated unit of the educational system. Scholars must stop thinking of adult education as a "stepchild" of the education system (Cherem, 1990) and of adult educators as "moonlighters" (Lewis, 1989). Further, adult learning must be viewed and studied at a global level (Lewis).

The need for educators to practice varied teaching strategies, to address learning styles, and to promote information retention is not simply desirable but imperative (Stemberger, 1995). Therefore, the role of the educator is to adjust for teaching and learning,...

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