Three Basic Components of Teaching

1. Three Basic Components of Teaching • Educational Materials • Methods • Teacher • Attitude • Knowledge of material • Evaluation • Teaching/Learning Style (s)

2. Lecture Videos – Preview!! Discussion – Question & Answer Group tasks or group work Guest speakers Values clarification Scare tactics Role playing Teaching Methods Most Commonly Used in Health Education

3. Gregoric Learning Styles • Concrete Sequential • Abstract Sequential • Abstract Random • Concrete Random

4. Concrete Sequential • Hands-on information (ownership-touch) • Order and sequence • Looks for and follows direction • Sees situations in black and white • Little tolerance for distractions • See problems in discrete parts • Doers (65% of people in management) • Personality – might be hard to get along with

5. Abstract Sequential • Prefers presentations with substance and sequence • Prefers authority (tell them what to do – followers) • Decreased tolerance for distraction • Sees problems/tasks in “logical parts;” “sees” situations (black & white) • “See what I’m saying?” • Hard on themselves • More apt to have long term memory • Like reading; thirst for knowledge • Good math skills • Quick-tongued (lawyers)

6. Abstract Random • Attentive to human behavior/condition • Associates “medium” with the message • Prefers to receive information in any manner • Needs time to reflect and assimilate information • Prefers busy environment • See the “whole” situation – “The big picture” • Shades of gray • Speed readers; like a challenge; use body language and metaphorical messages; tend to talk in sentence fragments; procrastinators

7. Concrete Random • Gets “gist” of ideas quickly • Prefers trial and error approach • “Intuitive leap” • Sees the whole situation; shades of gray • Prefers busy environment • Don’t hold with an authority line (independent) • Change agent; ideas; creative • “Divine discontent” (never happy) • Hate to throw anything away