Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What are the types of learners and how can you adjust to the different types?

What are the types of learners and how can you adjust to the different types?

In a classroom, there are different types of students. It is important that a teacher is ready to face consequences different cultures that students bring inside the classrooms. However, students are mostly categorized in two different types these re the passive and the other is the active students. Passive students are the ones who most of the time is silent; they prefer to stay in one corner of the room. They are believe to follow the teacher and obey the rules inside the classroom because they are behave and do not want to mingle. Somehow they are also believed to be absent-minded and irritable. The other type is what we call the active students, active students are believed to be intelligent students but usually they are the students who misbehave in the class and pick up a war with other classmates. When the teacher is out they are most of the move from one place to the other, especially if the teacher was not able to attend to the needs of the students.

There are different types of students that’s why there are also different strategies especially designed to meet their needs. As a practice teacher, I must be armoured with the following strategies. I must know how to deal with the different types of students and their behaviours. I must look after what culture they belong so I may know what to do, how I deal with my students is very much important.


As a teacher I must prepare the lesson carefully, and prepare effective strategies so I may deliver it successfully. The things I teach to my students should first come out from me; I should a role model to my students. In this way may earn respect and thrust so that next time they will follow and abide by with the rules I give. As I teacher it is also important that I read one-hundred pages ahead to my students, I should know more so I may explain things to them whenever they questions about the lesson and clarifications about other things. It is also important that I understand how they feel, I must be able to reflect on what I do and what they do.

As a teacher, I should deal with my students with respect. I should treat them all as intelligent and fully functional humans. In a way I should see my students as a blank sheet of paper who comes in the school that has to go back home with a new writings in them. As a teacher, I am entitled to give my students only the best of what I have. I am to teach them the right, the proper and the things they need to know.

As a teacher, I am responsible in moulding my students to become a qualified human being who is capable of living. My students should be able to face life and its consequences. I must prepare them for the future, As a teacher I should explain the lesson eligibly. I must involve myself in the lesson so I may help my students learn the subject matter and of course my students would understand the lesson better. As a teacher I must be an enabler I should share control over my students or I may hand it to them.


As a teacher I must be capable of deciding for my students and the whole class. My actions should determine my personality as a teacher. The way I manage my students and the classroom would be definitely be affected by my attitude, intentions, beliefs and values. I should control over all these things instead I should utilized it for the benefits of my students. As a teacher I know I am an important element inside classroom, I believe that I have an important role in the lives of my students. I know that I have a control over what atmosphere should prevail inside the classroom, a ridiculous thing that as a teacher I possess a tremendous power on the lives of my students. I can make students’ life happy or miserable, I am a also a tool for torture or an instrument of inspirations. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.