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Ulbrich, Holley H. – Academe, 1992
Just as academic departments must balance the need for diversity and specialization in teaching and research interests, they must also acknowledge the potential contributions of the different personal styles and abilities of their faculty. Inner-directed (research-oriented) faculty and other-directed, client-centered faculty enrich the classroom…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Attitudes, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Saye, John W.; Brush, Thomas – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
This paper explores how teachers with different teaching styles conceptualized and implemented a multimedia-supported problem-based inquiry (PBI) unit. We focus on how the teachers supported student thinking and examine underlying belief, knowledge, and dispositional factors that may account for differences in the teachers' practices. We…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multimedia Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Inquiry
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Jenkins, John M. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1999
Two types of personalized instruction, interaction and thoughtfulness, transcend the behavioral paradigm to include experiences building on individual student differences. Teachers can facilitate learners' progress from cognitive skill development to mastery and real-life problem solving by stressing experiential and inquiry learning, independent…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning