Teaching strategies and their relationship with the learning style of students

Abstract

Knowing the ways of learning of educational actors has contributed to achieving significant changes in the teaching process and this has been demonstrated by several investigations. The present study seeks to identify the learning styles of high school students at the Julia Navarrete Mendoza Private Educational Unit, with the purpose of relating them to the teaching strategies that teachers use during the development of their classes, with the objective of determining whether or not there is influence from their way of learning on how they teach and in this way improve student performance. By applying the CHAEA Honey-Alonso Learning Styles questionnaire, it was possible to identify that there is a frequent tendency towards the pragmatic style on the part of the students; having less preference for the reflective style, as do teachers, who reflect that among their strategic resources, those that favor this style are the least used. Knowing the predominant learning style in heterogeneous groups of students and teachers will allow institutions to seek the appropriate methodological tools that ensure a meaningful teaching-learning process.