Models of Teaching

Methods 1
 Overview
• Models of teaching
• Benefits, limitations
• Questions for critical reflection
 WHY USE MODELS OF TEACHING?

• Meet learning needs of heterogeneous

groups.
• Varied outcomes, different levels of
sophistication.
• Repertoire of approaches.
 What are 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
 What are Models of Teaching?
• Provide common language to discuss
facets of instruction common across
all classrooms among administrators
and teachers.
• Increases probability of learning
certain skills/knowledge.
 What are Models of Teaching?

• 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.
FAMILIES OF TEACHING MODELS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cel
tickendra/Four_Families_of_Teaching
 INFORMATION-PROCESSING FAMILY

• Enhances making sense of new

information.
• Help students learn how to construct
knowledge.
 SOCIAL FAMILY
• Uses group inquiry and problem-solving
strategies.
• Encourages assimilation and
understanding.
• Relies on students’ personal and social
values.
 PERSONAL FAMILY

• Emphasizes self-actualizing, self-

awareness, directing destinies.
• Exploration and reflection about goals
or future careers.
 BEHAVIORAL FAMILY
• Develop mastery in subject matter or
skills acquisition.
• Seeks specific behavioral changes.
• Measurable outcomes.
 Models of Teaching Resources
• Most articles on teaching models reference Bruce Joyce sometime
http://www.amazon.com/Models-Teaching-Bruce-R-Joyce/dp/0205193919
• Introduction to Model Based Teaching in Science -
http://mtv.concord.org/publications/model_based_teaching.pdf
• Learning Theories and Teaching Models -
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edlea.htm
• Teaching Models from Virginia Tech -
http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/index.html
• PBS Guide - http://www.pbs.org/unctv/nogreatercalling/educators/index.html
• Teaching with models - http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/models/  especially see
the link to the physics article
• Model BasedTeaching with Biologica -
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q162767200844873/
• Models of Teaching and Approaches to -
http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/pmcgee/models.htm
• Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Celtickendra/Four_Families_of_Teaching
 TEACHER BENEFITS

• Improves the quality of instruction.

• Systematic approach to planning for
instruction.
• Facilitates awareness about students’
learning needs.
• Assess impact of instruction.
• Offers alternative ways of representing
content/skills.
 TEACHER BENEFITS
• Develop learning experiences that
yield successful outcomes.
• Facilitates student engagement in
more meaningful ways.
• Explicit use of teaching models can
accelerate rate of learning,
capacity and facility in learning.
 STUDENT BENEFITS
• Increases aptitude for learning and
retention.
• Learn more rapidly.
• Facilitates different kinds of learning.
• Builds academic self-esteem.
• Acknowledges characteristics and
aptitudes.
• Promotes student awareness of how they
will be taught and what changes are
sought.
 Caveats
• Do not replace pedagogical expertise.
– subject matter knowledge
– creativity
– interpersonal skills
• No model is effective for everyone.
• Some methods increase or diminish
desired outcomes.
 Questions for Critical Reflection
1. What models do you use during
instruction?

2. What other approaches do you

want to use?
 References
Joyce, B. & Calhoun, E. (1996). Creating
Learning Experiences: The Role of Instructional
Theory and Research. Alexandria, VA:
Association for Curriculum Development and
Supervision.

Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Calhoun, E. (2004).

Models of Teaching. 7th ed. Boston: Allyn &
Bacon.