Students' Learning Styles Vis-A-Vis Their Preferred Instructional Methodologies: Inputs for Responsive Teaching Approaches

 Students have different levels of motivation, attitudes on learning, and responses to specific classroom environments and instructional practices. The more thoroughly teachers understand the differences, the better chance they have of meeting the diverse learning needs of their students. Students take in and process information in different ways: through seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing. On the other hand, teaching methods vary. Some instructors lecture, others demonstrate or lead students to self-discovery; some focus on principles and others on applications; and some emphasize memory and others understanding.