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TEACHING STYLES AND URBAN EDUCATION Introductio

TEACHING STYLES AND URBAN EDUCATION

Statistics indicate that almost 30 percent of students entering high school will leave prior to graduation; urban dropout rates often range between 40 and 50 percent (Brady, 1995). Estimates place the nationwide costs of the dropout problem at a minimum of $26,000 for each dropout during his or her working life (Tindall 1988).

The foregoing facts highlight the importance of understanding those factors that assist in the overall effort to help students, especially urban students, to both stay in school and maximize their learning. In this regard, Klausmeier (1995) has reported that one of the most effective tools available to the educational system for achieving the goals if maximal learning and non-dropout is teaching or instructional style. The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature on the effects of different instructional/teaching styles on inner-city, mostly at-risk students.

Teaching/Instructional Styles and At-Risk Students

Diverse teaching styles have been tested for their effects on increasing the academic and social progress of at-risk students. One style that has been particularly effective is Active learning in which instruction is accompanied by a hands-on approach allowing students to actively manipulate and work with the subject matter being taught (Basham, 1994).

An example of active learning can be seen in a study of fourth-grade students (83% of whom were identified as "at risk") in an inner-city school in the southeastern United States. This study, conducted by Basham (1994), had students participate in a hands-on, interdisciplinary unit about the environment. Instruction in the unit lasted for a period of two weeks. Lessons covered a wide range of environmental issues such as pollution, rainforest devastation, recycling, and Earth appreciation.

Students in the class engaged in activities with environmental topics including the top...

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