In my point of view, changing teachers to some extent will have
effects on the formation of students' learning habits, attitude, even grade. When
we talk about teaching style, it relates to a systematic teaching methods that
a teacher present in class like how to interact with students to help them
master the target knowledge. Whether the new teaching style that brought by the
new teacher is suitable for students or not, it will cost students' time to get
used to it, rather than let students fully focus on the content they are
learning. Assume that students are taught by a teacher who tend to provide a
comprehensive context first then leave students to predict grammatical rules, and
the next teacher tend to explain grammatical rules first then leave students to
solve grammar problems. Apparently, students lose the thinking process from
grammatical phenomena to grammatical rules. They may feel confused and waste
time on figuring out how to apply rules to grammar problems, and on the
contrary, if they are accustomed to the second teacher's method, they may not
be able to make hypothesis on grammar rules. It is dangerous to make students
feel frustrated when confront this kind of difficulty, which may lead them to
form a passive attitude towards learning, and even affect their grade.
However, changing teaching style is not always a bad thing for
students. At students' early stage of a learning process, where learning habits
are developed, they need a phase to find and grasp a basic way of learning that
can help them master the knowledge, but after this, they should try other
methods to improve and make their ways of learning more efficient, and during
this phase, different kinds of teaching styles are needed. And it won't hurt
students' motivation of learning.
