Name of Teacher: ___________________________
The following items deal on the teaching strategies that your teacher uses in class. Read carefully the items and tell how frequently they do this in
your class For each statement, rate your teacher by placing a check mark (/) in the space corresponding to the number you have selected based on
the 5-point Likert Scale.
Remember that this is not a test; therefore, there are no “right” or “wrong” answers.
Teaching Style Inventory
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When my teacher teaches in our class he/she likely does the following:
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Include the student’s life experience or prior knowledge when he/she introduces a
concept.
Require us to learn by doing creative problem-solving exercises and projects.
Engages us in problems that are outside the realm of possibility to force us to think
creatively.
Cultivate scholarship and independent thinking/reasoning skills by providing optional
assignments that can be done outside of class.
Tie up concepts with applications in the real world.
Institute a regularly scheduled time where we practice their use of problem-solving.
Guide us (students) to invent new methods for solving problems.
Introduce to us the possibility that for some problems, there are no “right” answers.
Capitalize on our curiosity about unfamiliar situations.
Supply time for explanation and discover where we can answer “what if” questions
Allow us to create our problem-solution process.
Present scenarios involving many concepts that provide material for class discussions
about predictions and solutions.
Try to provide a rationale for learning that motivates us based on relating what we are
taught with what we know to help us later in life.
Foster creative problem-solving that has some element of discovery embedded, forcing
students to find the new rule or principle.
Walk around while we are working on given tasks, asking questions about the problemsolving process, procedure or activity.
Encourage different approaches to problem-solving that help us understand and
develop our reasoning skills and processes.
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When my teacher teaches in our class he/she likely does the does the following:
He/she does involve us in individual activities followed by group activities.
He/she calls the same students who can answer.
Gets angry when we cannot answer the questions.
Cracks jokes not related to the lesson.
Checks class attendance.
Dismiss the class 3-5 minutes before time.
Comes into class 3-5 minutes late.
Answers questions from students promptly.
Uses ICT/printed materials.
Uses printed materials posted on the board.
Uses chalk/pen and board
Gives clear directions before we proceed to class activities.
Shows concern about what we feel or about our problems in class.
Allows us to comply with missed requirements.
Do not give us make-up work.
Call us after class to work on our requirements.
Let the class copy written lessons on the board.
Let students write lessons on the board to be copied.
Gives activities that are not related to the lesson.
Enriches the lesson discussion with situations observed outside the classroom.
Reads lessons from the book.
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