Teaching Strategies of Secondary School Teachers according to their Thinking Style Profiles in District Sialkot

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the preferred teaching strategies used by the secondary school teachers having different thinking style profiles. The study was conducted in District Sialkot of Pakistan. Altogether 4895 secondary school teachers of district Sialkot constituted the population of the study.550 teachers of both genders were conveniently taken as the sample of the study. Self-develop observation record was used to collect data from 18 teachers for the teaching strategies: Brain Storming, Asking questions, Attaining Concept, Will to Work, Making things familiar and vice versa, Group discussion, Text reading, Direct Lecturing,  Learning by Inquiring, Assessment Procedure, Learning through Activities, Teaching by using Models, Homework,  using Real Objects, Rewarding were used by the teachers in the classroom at secondary level, conveniently taken from all the four Tehsils of District Sialkot. Frequency distribution was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the Attaining Concept, Brain Storming, Group Discussion, Learning by Inquiring, Use of Real Objects, Learning through Activities and Rewarding, were teaching strategies preferred by the teachers having creative inclination, Direct Lecturing, homework, Assessment Procedure, and Text Reading were teaching strategies preferred by the teachers having less creative inclination and degree of freedom.