Developing your teaching style: increasing effectiveness in healthcare teaching.

Full Abstract

This paper reports the first stage in the development of a tool, the Six Staffordshire Teaching Styles Questionnaire, designed to raise awareness in teachers about their teaching style. Effective teachers are adaptable and flexible in providing variety in their teaching activities, aiming to match their manipulation of the teaching and learning environment to the needs of the learner, but teachers should also know what type of activities they are most effective at delivering. Just as mismatched learning styles can cause dysfunctional learning situations, one of the causes of stress in teachers can be an incongruency between the type of activities they believe are effective, or feel they are good at carrying out, and external expectations of "good teaching".

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Author information

Author/s: Mohanna, Kay (K); Chambers, Ruth (R); Wall, David (D);

Affiliation: West Midlands Deanery, and Staffordshire University, Faculty of Health, Stafford, UK. Kaymohanna(-atsign-)aol.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Postgraduate medical journal (Postgrad Med J), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Mar; vol 83 (issue 977) : pp 145-7

Dates: Created 2007/03/08; Completed 2007/11/07;

PMID: 17344564, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Postgrad Med J. 2007 Mar;83(977):143-4. (PMID: 17344563)

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Education, Dental - methods
Education, Medical - methods

Questionnaires
Teaching - methods

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