HOW WILL I ATTEND TO THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNING STYLE NEEDS OF STUDENTS, BOTH INSTRUCTIONALLY AND PERSONALLY?

First, we must be aware that our learners may be at different stages in their lives, tastes, perceptions, attitudes, knowledge, experience, ability, and intelligence. Since they have many differences, they may also have different needs. Learning styles let us know our students personally because we will find that some of them are activist, theorists, reflectors, or pragmatics.

Instructionally, we have to try to provide the tools for our students to achieve their goals. We attend the individual learning styles when we provide them everything to learn taking into account their differences. Choosing appropriate methods and variety of them is vital in constructing positive, useful sessions when learning actually takes place. Moreover, we have to select the methods and approaches according to what we are trying to teach. The selection of learning resources is also important. Planning our lessons may also help us to recognize our learner’s needs.

HOW WILL I SEE GROWTH IN THE LEARNERS ACCORDING TO THEIR STATED NEEDS/GOALS, AS WELL AS MY COURSE GOALS?

In this point assessment and evaluation are really important.

First, we need to know the difference between them.

Assessment is all about checking our students’ progress and achievements.

Evaluation is to do with making judgments about how well our course, our lesson, and our teaching are going.

To measure our students’ growth, we need to assess them. We can use formative, summative, and continuous assessment. This kind of assessments may help us know if our students achieve their goals.

On the other hand, we have evaluation that is much harder than assessment. With evaluation, we have to make judgments about our own work as a tutor. To evaluate our own performance, we have to imagine that we are observing someone else teach. However, we can use other kinds of evaluation such as formal evaluation that is to ask for some kind of feedback from our students at the end of the course, or we can simply ask our students to write down what they feel about the course. The level of attendance at our course and the level of dropout are two ways in which we can judge how successful the course has been.

 HOW DO I USE THE LEARNERS EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE INSTRUCTION?

Learner’s experiences may help us know what they expect from the course. They may want to change something because it did not work well before. And, they also help us while planning our lessons because we may know what worked for them before. We may find that there are some things learners would like to change. To sum up, learners experiences may help us to improve our teaching.