Teacher learning styles: opportunity to improve teaching - learning at National Agrarian University, Managua, Nicaragua

Abstract

The study was developed with teachers from the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment - Universidad Nacional Agraria, under the assumption that knowledge of the learning styles of the educational community allows generating key information that can contribute to improving the teaching - learning processes. The methodology included the analysis of the context and the diagnosis of the learning styles of volunteer teachers of FARENA, using the Honey - Alonso Questionnaire of Learning Styles. The results indicate the profile of learning styles of the teaching community is Theoretical, Pragmatic, Active and Reflective, which indicates that they use particular processes and strategies to obtain, process, understand and put into practice an information. Since the evidence indicates that the best teachers use the four styles on a high scale; It is desirable that efforts be made to improve the use of such styles. To the extent that teachers properly master the four styles, they can contribute to improving the teaching - learning processes, and will be able to teach the student population how to enhance their learning styles