You have captured the essence of instructional style in terms of keeping the student first. We all take in information through a variety of different venues. Instructors have to work hard to provide the variety that is necessary to keep the students' interest. A challenge I see everywhere I do training is that instructors become so focused on their content area that they, in many cases don't provide the stimulation opportunities that are required to keep student interest for the duration. Your point of keeping the end result in focus is a good one. One way of keeping that end goal real for all of the students is to "chunk" the information into bit size chunks of instruction that illustrate for the students progress in their learning and knowledge base. They then can string together these bits of information into a comprehensive knowledge base. Also, the human factor for the instructor must always be a matter of consideration. A part of the instructional style must be the fact that you have rapport with your students and they know you care about their success in your class. This again may be a problem with instructors moving from business and industry where they aren't sure how much of their personalities to project into the instructional setting. They struggle with who they really are in the classroom and how to get the students to respect them. Again, I have found in my training that for the most part these individuals through role playing and group discussions can quickly get a grasp of an instructional style that will be comfortable for them once they have a clear understanding of what an instructional style really is and how to expand on it.