Learning Styles.

Learning styles are different methods of learning and understanding new information, the way a person takes in, understand, expresses and remembers information.
There are 4 predominant learning styles: Visual, Auditory, Read/write, and Kinaesthetic.

Visual learners learn through seeing, so tools like diagrams, flowcharts, pictures and symbols can be key to understand new concepts.

Auditory learners learn through listening such as attending lectures, tutorials, group discussions are absolutely essential for these learners.

Read/Write learners learn through- what else? Such as, university style courses suit these types of learners fairly well- plenty of text books and study notes to read.

Kinaesthetic learners learn through doing. This is perhaps the most challenging learning style for university students, as there are not always many opportunities to engage in hands on learning in lectures.

Benefits of cooperative learning.

Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to recognize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences, it is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.
When cooperative learning is implemented effectively we can expect:

Students working cooperatively.

• Higher self-esteem.
• Higher achievement.
• Increase retention.
• Greater social support.
• More on task behavior.
• Greater collaborative skills.
• Greater Intrinsic motivation.
• Increase perspective taking.
• Better attitudes toward school.
• Greater use of higher level reasoning.
• More positive psychological adjustment.

Positive Classroom climates.

The feelings and beliefs that students have and the cumulative patterns of behavior that result from those feelings and beliefs regarding community and mutual support, risk taking and confidence, influence and control.

• Community and mutual support:

            - Students must know each others and know the teacher.
            - Greeting, listening, responding, acknowledging and affecting students.
            - Group identity, Responsibility and interdependence.
            - Social skills and group dynamics.
            - Problem solving and conflict resolution.

• Risk taking and confidence:

         - Errors.
         - Speed
         - getting help and confidence.
         - Effort and ability.

• Influence and control:

         - Stop the teachers watching
         - Negotiating the rules of the classroom.
         - Teaching students to use principles of learning.
         - Learning styles and choices.
         - using students and their communities as source o knowledge.

The Six thinking levels based on Blooms Taxonomy.

 1. Knowledge: Recognizing and remembering previously learned information, recalling facts, terms and basic concepts
Directive words: Define, label, state, list, match, write, recall, name, underline, repeat, choose, record, mark, identify, recognize.
2. Comprehension: Demonstrating an understanding of the meaning of facts, terms and basic concepts.
Directive words: Describe, rephrase, discuss, explain, locate...
3.Application: Solving problems by applying acquired knowledge, facts, and techniques in a different situation.
Directive words: Apply, use, demonstrate, illustrate, chart, solve, operate practice...
4.Analysis: Breaking complex ideas or information apart to examine various components.
Directive words:

Distinguish, discriminate, analysis,compare, contrast, diagram...
5. Synthesis: Compiling information or combing elements in a different way to form a new idea, pattern, or creation.
Directive word: Create, design, plan, organize, generate, develop, propose...
6. Evaluation: Making judgments about information based on specific criteria( worth, validity, accuracy, relevance, etc..)
Directive words: Appraise, critique, judge, weigh, evaluate, select, rate, evidence...

Types of teachers knowledge.

• Content knowledge: Is the material that a teacher have in the mind, by which teachers can't teach why they don't understand, in addition to that, teachers need to know more than the basics of a topic so that they can teach it.
• Content pedagogical knowledge: Is the way the teacher present the lesson, the way that makes the students understand the topic easily and relate it to real situations.
• General pedagogical knowledge: It is something shared by all the teachers, so that all teachers need to know it, such as classroom management, controlling group working, monitoring classrooms, planning, designing curriculum and behaving properly in front of students.
• Knowledge of learners: Teachers are teaching students and not content, so as teachers you have to design the instructions based on what students already know and have in their minds.
• knowledge of behavior individuals: Teachers must be aware of students behaviors and reactions towards something.

Teachers traits.

A skillful teacher must have 6 traits:

• Acknowledging students through greeting them individually in the classroom or in the school halls, welcoming them when they have absent, making eye-contact during the lesson and noticing while they aren't participating.
• Communicating values through being a good listener, showing interest in what they are saying, what they are doing or how they are looking, communicating high expectations to them as individuals, reestablishing contact if there has been a reason to discipline a student and being accessible to them.
• Respecting students: by treating them as students and capable human beings, speak to them in a polite way, give them chance to express and don't compare them to others.
• Fairness: Teachers should be unselective in punishment and rewards and must be fair in giving grades to the students.
• Realness: Teachers are real as students so they shouldn't be fake,  and they have to share their electrodes.
• Humor and fun: It is important to enjoy few moments at classroom but in limits.

Personal Realtion ships Building.

According to Geneva Gay : "Students perform much better in environments where they feel comfortable and valued".
So creating a classroom of warmth, support, caring and informality builds a good relation ships by having all the students without affecting negatively their level of academic achievements. Positive relation ships between teachers and students are essential because they impact classroom climate and management, they inform instructional design and delivery. Moreover, they influence students efforts and academic engagement.
The most significant point that exist between teachers and students is the high expectations and the students achievements. For example adolescence are ready to work and achieve when they know that people care for them. A string positive relation ship claims: " I value you and I care", so the teachers must convince the students that they are capable to perform high levels and must motivate them to come to school and achieve to succeed.