Week 6: Comparing Models of Teaching: Heuristic, Interactive and Hands-on

Models of teaching have been developed to help a teacher to improve his capacity to reach more children and create a richer and more diverse environment for them. Model of teaching consists of guidelines for designing educational activities and environments. It is meant for creating suitable learning environments. In other words, “Models of teaching” describe teaching, as it ought to be. Models of teaching, therefore, have been developed to help a teacher to improve his/her capacity to reach more children and create a richer and more diverse environment for them.

Definition: “Model of teaching can be defined as instructional design which describes the process of specifying and producing particular environmental situations which cause the students to interact in such a way that a specific change occurs in their behavior”.

Nature of Models of Teaching:

• Prescriptive strategies to guide planning and instruction

• Supported by research based-evidence

• Detailed overview of how to teach

• Role of instructor • Type of classroom structure

• Ways teacher supports student efforts

• Provide common language to discuss facets of instruction common across all classrooms among administrators and teachers.

• Increases probability of learning certain skills/knowledge.

• Promote awareness about how individuals and collective faculty teach.

• Helps students learn how to learn.

• Conceptual frameworks grouped by purpose and intended outcomes into 4 families.

undamental Elements

           

           A teaching model provides valuable guidelines and blueprint for carrying out the task of teaching for the realization of some specific goals.we should be using the following fundamentals:

  1. FOCUS- It is the central aspect of the teaching model
  2. SYNTAX- This term (or phasing the model) refers to the description of the model in the action.
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  4. PRINCIPLES OF REACTION- These responses should be quite appropriate and selective 
  5. SOCIAL SYSTEM- The models differ from each other with regard to the description of the above aspects. 
  6. SUPPORT SYSTEM- This element refers to the additional requirements beyond the usual human skills or capacities from the teachers and the facilities or schedules, available in an ordinary classroom.
  7. APPLICATION- This element describes its application aspect. Some are meant for a short lesson, some for the large, some for the both.  

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