Understanding how the learning really occurs, seems to be the logical pathway to tweak the teaching approach in order to maximize effectiveness in the learning process. Nevertheless, the complications of this logical approach start once one put more than one student together in the same classroom, as the ways that each person learns can be truly unique. This is particularly notorious issue with STEM subjects, as the wrong approach to teaching these areas can have a lasting negative impact in students’ perception of these topics often times scaring them away, causing them to miss out opportunities to explore the great potential that STEM have as career pathways in a society that becomes more and more technological driven. When it comes to learning styles, it is difficult to predict what the preferred style will be for a given group of learners, because of factors such as; individual’s interest, previous exposure to the concepts presented, psychological estate, emotional estate, the expertise of the teacher to capture their pupils’ attention, the meaning of the information; all these factors together, could potentially affect the final outcome.

Speaker: Julio Garay

Published in: Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2024)

• Date of Conference: 2-4 April, 2024
• DOI: 10.20533/IICE.2024.0010
• ISBN: 978-1-913572-70-9
• Conference Location: Dún Laoghaire, Ireland