Participants will be asked to consider the appropriateness of their personal teaching style in light of the learning styles of students. Education specialists have clearly acknowledged the concepts of multiple intelligences and multiple learning styles. Students whose learning style fits with the chosen methodology have the opportunity to maximize their learning experience while students with alternate learning styles may not get it. This workshop is born out of research that the presenter is currently conducting. Data was collected from about 500 students in various types of business courses, taught by about fifteen different instructors following the Fall 1998 semester.
Data collection is scheduled to continue for several years.
The purpose of the current research is to confirm previous research which claims that students with specific learning styles, prefer specific teaching strategies. This workshop is best suited to the core best practices of management education stream for this conference. The workshop is intended to be a one-hour interactive event. It will begin with a general discussion of learning styles followed by the administration of the Gregorc Style Delineator. The administration and scoring of the instrument takes approximately six minutes.