30/11/18 Teaching Styles Given this large array of intelligences that students are likely to have and respond to, it is important that teachers understand different teaching styles and approaches to learning to harness the strengths and limit the weaknesses of students. In this essay, I am going to focus on six different approaches to learning before answering the question as to the assessment approach I wish to promote: 1) behaviourist, 2) cognitivist, 3) humanist, 4) social & situational, 5) critical/transformative, and 6) self-directed. Behaviourist theorists believe that learning can be conducted when the required behaviour is learnt through a task being repeated by the teacher accompanied with feedback. To discourage mistakes instant correction is made. For example, Ivan Pavlov’s famous study in 192O’s, were he taught dogs to salivate upon hearing a bell which was shortly followed by food. When Pavlov stopped feeding them after the bell they continued to salivate ...