Design and drafting instructors employ their own personal lecturing style while instilling knowledge. A basic teaching style is lecture based. The focus of a professor's discussion may include topics such as applicable standards and laws. Other realms of information that may be conveyed during a lecture include principles of aesthetics, manufacturing and costs.
Assigning group-design projects will require design students to work together to reach a common goal. In this teaching style, instructors facilitate the obtainment of design and drafting skills by encouraging students to assume specific roles within a group. The cultivation of problem-solving skills are a natural outcome of this teaching style. Presenting design problems to a group of students allows students to learn from the different strengths of their peers.
Drafting and design instructors may develop a series of lessons that develop a applicable skills. Sometimes such lessons are designed to develop more than one skill at a time. For example, a design instructor might present an assignment that addresses the development of a basic design skill and a software skill, simultaneously. Alternatively, a drafting instructor may assign work that develops technical design skills while applying knowledge gained during a lecture.