Blog Entry 4th Week (11/10/2021 - 17/10/2021)

For this week's blog post, I'm going to be talking about differnt teaching styles: Authoritarian, Democratic and Laissez Faire. 

Teaching can be done in multiple ways. Every teacher has its own ways of giving class to its students. Most of them usually follow educative methods, try to use their experience to teach as they think its best for students or use different teaching styles. It's about three of them that i'm going to talk about.

- Authoritarian style: In this teaching style the teacher acts as a leader. He explains the tasks and how to perform them. The students become passive students as the only thing they can do is listen to the teacher. This usually creates concentration problems as lessons done with this style tend to be boring for kids as they can't interact with what they are learning, leading to distraction. It can have benefits for the teacher, like facilities to teach, as kids are more quiet, but students are the most important part of a class as they are the ones that need to learn and teaching should be done the way it's best for them. Because of this, when giving classes we should think about kids and how they are gonna learn better and I think this method is the worst for learning.

- Democratic style: Opposed to the method mentioned before, in which students didn't activeley form part of the class, in this method students participate in decision and in the implementation of activities. This is a much better teaching style as students participate in the class and feel like part of it. By participating in decisions, kids can decide what they'd like to do and how they'd like to do it. By liking what they are doing, they are going to learn much batter and, more importantly, with enthusiasm.

- Laissez Faire style: And last, but not least, the "laissez faire" teaching style. This style is characterized by a passive teacher that only intervenes when students need it. It can be really benefitial but, at the same time, it can lead to chaos. Some of its positive aspects are that it can teach kids self-discipline, organisation and time management skills, responsibility, leadership... On the other hand, if it's not organised correctly by the teacher, it can lead to severe chaos because kids might not be able to organise all they need to do. Kids can't be left completely free, they need a teacher to guide them and, in some cases, organise them.

These are the three main teaching styles. For me, the best one is the democratic style. Kids are able to make class decisions while the teacher is, at the same time, the leader. Not all kids will like what has been decided but it's the most fair.