Comparative study of teaching styles of various school groups at secondary level

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Teaching style involves students in the learning process and supports them to improve critical thinking abilities. Customary teaching styles have progressed with the arrival of distinguished teaching, stimulating teachers to modify their teaching styles towards pupils¿ learning requirements. The present study was intended to compare teaching styles of teachers working in secondary schools in district Chiniot of Punjab.

There were three objectives which were probed by the respondents to discover and compare teaching styles of teachers working in public and private secondary schools. The sample of 240 teachers from 24 public and private secondary schools was selected randomly from district Chiniot. A questionnaire developed and used by Grasha (1996) in many countries, was used as research instrument to collect data. The responses were analyzed through SPSS (V-20) to find out Mean, Standard Deviation, and Frequency Distributions for the description of data. Values of t-test were also applied to measure significant difference among various variables related to research questions.

It was concluded by analysis that there were five teaching styles found in public and private school categories. It was revealed that in public and private school categories there was no significant difference observed on expert, facilitator and delegator teaching styles. Only significant difference was found on formal authority and personal model teaching styles in favour of public school category.