Boldwin International School's Annual Magazine 2015-2016

In addition, students with these characteristics tend to have dishonesty, lack of persistence, unreasonable expectations. On the other hand, authoritative parenting is associated with the most adaptive emotional, social, and moral development. Plus, students whose parents follow this parenting style are easily capable of expressing their intellectual abilities. Besides the parenting style, there are other factors that might have a crucial influence on the attitudes and behaviors of the students that are formed in childhood. Simply, the teaching style that students encounter at all distinct levels of education is one of the crucial factors. Just like parenting styles, there are four types of teaching styles. This latter can either intensify and strengthen or dampen and diminish the parenting styles. Teacher Involvement Discipline Weak Strong Low PermissiveNeglectful Authoritarian High PermissiveIndulgent Authoritative Four Teaching Styles: Crossing levels of teacher involvement with strength or teacher discipline results in four teaching styles that echo parenting styles identified by Baumind (1971). A) Permissive- Neglectful: Those teachers do more than provide students with basics. Their work is just restricted to delivering some lectures all over the years. Also, they do not put in some effort to establish or maintain discipline in their classes, so they are more likely to ignore students’ misbehavior. B) Permissive- Indulgent: these teachers are deeply involved in teaching. Though they are devoted to teaching, these teachers fear doing anything that might create stress for students, stifle their personal growth or hurt their self- esteem. In addition, they believe that all students, regardless of their potentials, are capable students, so they work and support aids to make it difficult and impossible for anyone to fail. What is impressive about these teachers is that they allow students to choose the testing option that best suits their preferences, needs, and learning styles. (Daniel, 2009). C) Authoritative: Like authoritative parents, these teachers employ a blend of high involvement and firm but discipline. They care about teaching and about their students, but they reward outcome, not effort. They encourage students to try harder and are ready to work with special needs students, doing so under school’s policies. Research shows that an authoritative style is the one most likely to promote student learning, critical thinking, and personal development. It is the least likely to nurture student misbehavior. (Mugny, 2006). 37 ‫مدرسة بولدوين العالمية‬

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