The comparison of students and educators preferred teaching styles in teacher educating centres

Abstract

With regard to the great importance of teaching styles in student-teachers’ education process and their future teaching methods, this study aimed to investigate student-teachers and their educators’ preferred teaching styles among active and inactive teaching styles in a teacher education center named Shahid Hashemi-nejad Teacher Education Center, located in Mashhad, Iran. Using Morgan's formula, 85 (including 9 educators and 76 student-teachers) were randomly selected among all 70 educators and 200 student-teachers (N=270) in this centre. They were asked to complete “preferred teaching style questionnaire”. The questionnaire included 39 Likert type items regarding active and inactive teaching styles. The results showed that there were no significantly differences between student-teachers and educators’ dispositions towards active and inactive teaching styles. These two groups had relatively similar views on the components of teaching styles in both active and inactive ones and both groups preferred active teaching style to inactive one. Then, some motivating factors are needed for developing active teaching styles.