An analysis of teachers’ teaching styles to match students’ learning styles of IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Rambe, Sokhira Linda Vinde (2019) An analysis of teachers’ teaching styles to match students’ learning styles of IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Research Report. LPPM IAIN Padangsidimpuan. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The aim of this research was to see how the teachers match their teaching styles to students’ learning styles. The research was a type of qualitative research investigating and describing the phenomenon of teachers’ styles in matching students’ learning styles. It was conducted in IAIN Padangsidimpuan toward 10 classes of respondents consisting of 222 students and 10 teachers. To collect the data, questioners were given to students; interview and observation were given to teachers. Then, descriptive data analysis was implemented in analyzing the data that were collected. The research found that from the 222 students, 57 students are visual learners, 46 students are audio learners, 29 students are verbal learners and 90 students are kinesthetic learners. In relation to teachers’ teaching styles, it was seen that almost all of the teachers were regarded as good role models and facilitators which means that teachers like to ask students to make authentic task, give the examples related to students’ real life context, and facilitate the students with lots of interesting activities and games. Furthermore, to match kinesthetic learners, the teachers provided lots of games, to match visual learners the teachers used many pictures, to match audio learners the teachers also provided spoken explanation, at last to match verbal learners the teachers gave written explanation on the board. Finally, it can be concluded that teachers have tried to match their teaching styles to students’ learning styles. However, there is a need for the next researchers to investigate teaching styles in relation to students’ achievement.

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