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1: Educational Models

2.1.2 - Compare educational models and explain how they impact the classroom.

Model Theorist/ Theory Pros/ Cons P-12 Impact on

Classrooms

Teacher Led: B. F. Skinner’s Pros - Teacher led Teacher led

Teachers instruct theory of behavior learning makes instruction impacts
their students has positive and sure all students classrooms through
through direct negative rewards have all the teaching strategies.
instructions. and punishments. information that is A teaching strategy
Teachers can needed and that it is modeling. A
reward good is credible. The teacher models
behaviors and teachers have instruction for the
punish bad control of the students. Another
behaviors. This students learning strategy is lectures.
helps reinforce and can test the Teachers can talk
good behaviors and students learning through a lesson
break bad (1.1.7). and use a
behaviors. While powerpoint or other
teachers are Cons - Since the demonstration to
instructing students, learning is being led teach students new
teachers can use by the teachers, the concepts and
this theory to fix students might not lessons. This is a
students’ behaviors pay attention and direct way to give
(1.1.8). may miss important information to
information. Also, it students.
is hard to make
sure all students
are engaged
because you can
only teach one or
two learning styles
at a time. Students
could fall through
the cracks (1.1.7).

Student Led: The Lev Vygotsky Pros - Student led Student led learning
students are in believed that learning helps impacts the
charge of their interactive activities students grow their classroom through
learning. and collaboration independence. several teaching
with others helps They learn how to strategies. One
influence cognitive work together and teaching strategy is
 growth. When express peer teaching.
students can work themselves. It also Students are
together, they puts the presented with
influence each responsibility of information and
other's cognitive their learning on teach it to a peer. It
growth (1.1.6). them. It also gives makes them
the teacher more responsible for their
time to see how learning. Another
their students are strategy is learning
doing. centers. Centers
allow students to
Cons - Since investigate new
students will be information and
working by form their own
themselves to learning.
learn, they may not
understand the
concept. Also, if
they are working
together, it could
cause dependency
on other students
and may not
understand. The
teacher might have
to reteach concepts
if they didn’t
understand.

Collaborative: Benjamin Bloom’s Pros - Collaboration Collaboration

Students and taxonomy has six has several impacts classrooms
teachers working steps: knowledge, advantages. One of through teaching
together on a comprehension, those advantages is strategies.
project or concept application, that a teacher can Teachers can use
(1.1.5) analysis, synthesis, evaluate students different strategies
and evaluation. while collaborating to do this. One of
While a teacher is with them. these strategies is
working with a Collaboration group reading
student, they can allows the teachers projects. Groups of
evaluate their to see the students' students can meet
students’ comprehension. with the teacher
knowledge. This They can also and discuss a book.
also helps the evaluate the They may complete
teacher to know students’ a worksheet or
what they need to knowledge. It also notes with the
work on with the allows the teachers teacher. Another
 students (1.1.4). to build a strategy is
relationship with the gamification. This
students. allows the teachers
to play a game with
Cons - students to
Collaboration may reinforce or
make a student rely introduce a
on others for work. concept.
If a teacher isn’t Storyboards are
observant, they also a strategy that
may overlook a teachers can use
student struggling for collaboration.
or do more work Storyboards can be
than the student. used in a class
discussion to
explain a process
or story (1.1.2).

Response to Jean Piaget’s Pros - Response to Response to

Intervention: theory of cognitive intervention intervention impacts
Identifying students development marks identifies students classrooms through
with learning the important goals with learning teaching strategies.
disabilities. The in students disabilities. This Teachers can use
teachers, through development and allows these different strategies
testing, can identify helps teachers students to have to address certain
learning gaps and understand where a early intervention disabilities. They
disabilities in student is at in their support such as may use brain
students. They can learning. This helps tutoring or extra test
sketching to help
assess the students teachers identify time. It helps students visually
learning disabilities students with prevent students brainstorm ideas,
and use scaffolding learning disabilities from falling behind. chunking to break
and differentiation (1.1.1) down difficult topics
to address the Cons - Response to into smaller, more
learning disability intervention singles understandable
(1.1.3) out students. Some topics, or
students do not gamification to turn
respond well to this tedious lessons into
help and are not engaging games.
open to the These strategies
accommodations help students with
that have been learning disabilities
made for them. to be more
engaged in their
learning (1.1.2)
This graphic organizer contains information about several educational models. The

educational models are teacher led instruction, student led instruction, collaborative,

and response to intervention. These models impact classrooms through the use of

different teaching strategies.

Evidence:

1.1.1 - Article about Jean Piaget and his theory of cognitive development.

1.1.2 - Teaching strategies discussion that describes different teaching strategies.

1.1.3 - Response to Intervention graphic organizer created by myself and other peers.

1.1.4 - Article about Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy.

1.1.5 - Collaborative graphic organizer created by my peers.

1.1.6 - Lev Vygotsky article about his theory of collaboration

1.1.7 - My notes taken during a lecture in class.

1.1.8 - Article about B. F. Skinner’s theory of behaviorism.