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Kinds of teaching style that you are experience so far.

I am now studying English as my major in university. Studying in university, I have chance to study and work with many good teachers who have their own teaching styles. Their teaching styles are sometimes the same, are sometimes different from the one I studied at high school. According to the way teacher and students work at class, we can classify their teaching style into 3 main kinds: teacher-centred teaching, student-centred teaching,  teaching that teacher and students have the same role at class.

 The first and very traditional teaching style is teacher-centred teaching. Why we say teacher is the central? Because in this teaching style, the teachers themselves plan the lesson at home and try to control the class following what they have already prepared at school. Everything happening at class is in their hands, they role at the central and their beloved students just receive their lesson passively. When I was at high school, every teacher used this way to teach us. It seemed effective for us when we were young in high school and had a little knowledge about the lesson and even about life. However, teacher-centred teaching does not work well when we study at university, especially with my major-English. We hardly have chance to practice speaking English when we work with the teacher who wants to be the central at class. She tries to talk, talk and talk without giving us to give our thinking about the lesson. The result of this course is not good, we can listen well but we could not talk what we have in our mind. Therefore, with this style, the teacher has to work very hard at home and at school while their beloved students just absorb the knowledge passively. Working very hard but the result is not very good for the teacher when their students could not swallow everything they teach because of lack chance to give their questions and talk at class.

The second but very popular teaching style at school nowadays is student-centred teaching. The students are the central at class means students have to prepare the lesson at home and try to catch the chance to work at class. In this teaching style, teachers still have to prepare their work at home but they also have to enrich their knowledge as much as possible because their students may ask them some extra questions. With this teaching style, all teacher and students have to work hard to have a good lesson. The popular activity for this teaching style at class is making the presentation. Some students about 3 or 4 people prepare the lesson with powerpoint at home, present it at class and the teacher will listen, give comment and explain some questions for their students. It seems to be effective when everybody has to work but it also has a limitation that the students waste time to present at class and the teacher does not have time to explain more about the lesson. My “English for computing” class is an example for this style. Thanks to this teaching style, we- srudents in "English for computing" class- ourselves find information about computers at home and have chance to practice giving presentation at class. However, we just understand clearly about the lesson that we are responsible for having presentation and we hardly swallow the lesson given by our friends. Cannot understand the lesson, we also don’t have chance to ask our teacher because the presentation of our friends always takes a lot of time at class. That’s why the third style below becomes more popular at school besides this second style.

The third but the most effective teaching style is teaching that teacher and students have the same role at class. Both teacher and students have to work very hard at home with the new lesson so that they together give questions and give the answers for the lesson at class. With this teaching style, students and teachers all have chance to understand and give their thinking about the lesson at school through their discussion the lesson and something related to the lessons. This teaching style is very popular at universities in some developed countries like USA, Australia, Singapore and England, etc. One of my friends who are now studying overseas in Australia shared about this teaching style that he had to read a lot of materials and do assignment at home. Whatever he cannot understand is taken note and discussed by him, together with his friends and his lecturer. Thanks to this style, my friend's study is now much better because he himself knows how to be self-study, how to make questions and how to solve problems together with his friends and his professor. Therefore, I’m sure that this is the most effective teaching style that teacher and students in university should follow. 

According to the way teacher and students work and study and teach at home and at school, we can classify the teaching style into three kinds above. I hope that teachers and students can find out the good way to get the knowledge in order to be successful in teaching and learning.

        _Muipham_