أساليب التعلم المفضلة لدى التلاميذ الموهوبين في المرحلة الابتدائية و علاقتهما بأساليب التدريس المتبعة من قبل معلميهم بمملكة البحرين

Abstract EN

This study aims to investigate the relationship between learning styles favoured by gifted and talented students and its relationship to teaching methods used by primary school teachers in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and to identify the preferred learning styles of gifted and talented students in primary schools in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

It aims also to identify the teaching methods used by primary school teachers in the schools that apply the sponsorship programs for gifted and talented students in Bahrain.

The study sample consisted of (286) students from gifted primary students in the public schools.

The number of teachers was (219), The sample was drawn from (14) schools.

This study used Renzulli scale for learning styles to detect the favorite styles of elementary and secondary school students.

The results of the study showed that the learning styles favored by respondents in descending order by their averages as follows : participation and ongoing training, discussion, educational games, direct instruction, independent study, projects, copying and simulation, technology education, study with peers.

Teaching styles used by teachers in descending order by their averages as follows : educational games, copying and simulations, learning using technology, projects, peer teaching, discussion, participation and recurrent training, independent study and direct instruction.

There is no statistically significant correlation between the learning styles of choice for talented students and teaching styles used by their teachers, except for copying and simulation method is statistically significant, but rather weak.

No statistical significant differences between male and female students in the averages for favorite learning styles while there are differences between them in the learning style of technology in favour of males.

There are differences between the schools in teaching styles : online learning and independent study projects, participation and continuous training while no statistical significant differences was found in the remaining styles.