Benefit of using
models in teaching
Human being is an enemy for anonym
A model can come in many shapes, sizes, and styles. It is important to emphasize that a
model is not the real world but merely a human construct
to help us better understand
real world systems.
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
• Detailed overview of how to teach
• Ways teacher supports student efforts
• 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.
INFORMATION-PROCESSING FAMILY
• Enhances making sense of new information.
• Help students learn how to construct knowledge.
Information Processing comprises
• Inductive thinking
• Concept attainment
• Mnemonics
• Scientific inquiry
SOCIAL FAMILY
• Uses group inquiry and problem-solving strategies.
• Encourages assimilation and understanding.
• Relies on students’ personal and social values.
• Partners in learning
• Group investigation
PERSONAL FAMILY
• Emphasizes self-actualizing, self- awareness, directing destinies.
• Exploration and reflection about goals or future careers.
• Non-directive teaching
• Enhancing self-esteem
BEHAVIORAL FAMILY
• Develop mastery in subject matter or skills acquisition.
• Seeks specific behavioral changes.
• Measurable outcomes.
TEACHER BENEFITS
• Improves the quality of instruction.
• Systematic approach to planning for instruction.
• Facilitates awareness about students’ learning needs.
• Offers alternative ways of representing content/skills.
• 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.
