EDLD+5368+Instructional+Design

This page will consist of discussion board topics from my EDLD 5368 Instructional Design course

After taking the pre inventory, the teaching style inventory, and completing the readings for this week, I have learned that my personal teaching style is a combination of behaviorism and cognitivism. I believe that this is very accurrate to my teaching style. Although I have not had the opportunity to teach in a formal classroom setting, I have had the opportunity to teach in a training setting for work ( I am a manager). I like to incorporate students current knowledge as well as my previous experiences to the lessons. I feel that this allows the students to relate to the lessons in a real life setting. After reading //How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school (2000)//, I would consider myself as a teacher who is learner centered and knowledge centered. I think that it is important for students to develop their own sense of understanding and problem solving using cultural knowledge and concepts, but I also believe that students should have a solid foundation based on facts and basic skills.

After my completion of the teaching inventory, I discovered that I am close to the middle in the teaching goals matrix. As an instructor I prefer analysis to rote learning, but do not focus on practical applications. I also prefer analysis to rote learning and focuses on familiar applications. With the teaching methods matrix, I discovered that I prefer that students learn through hands on activities completed collaboratively. In addition to the required readings and inventories, I took a teaching style inventory at http://www.longleaf.net/teachingstyle/html and a learning inventory at http://www.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/. In the teaching inventory, I scored high in the areas of formal authority, personal model, and delegator. The learning inventory revealed that I was a kinesthethic learner. I believe that the two inventories shed more light to my personal teaching theories. Because I am one who learns by doing and touching I apply that to my teaching style, although I still apply traditional techniques to my teaching and learning routines.

I hope that I can use the different styles and theories to my classroom, so that I can reach each student according to their learning needs and not that of my own.