[Originally
published in ELT Chat of
www.Free_esl.com]
History
*For
decades teachers , the world over have experimented with several methods and
strategies to develop different abilities in students.
What are Models
of Teaching?
*Bruce
Joyce and Marsha Weil identified,
collected, edited, structured and published the efforts of
teachers in several parts of the world under the title Models of Teaching
*The
models are not teaching theories
*They
are instructional designs
8They
describe the process of specifying and producing particular environmental
situations which cause the students to interact in such a way that specific
changes occur in their behaviour.
Characteristics
of Models
*All
models are effect oriented
*All
models have a specific strategy
*All
models are process oriented
Sources of Models
Studies
in Psychology , Sociology, Medical Science Engineering Science etc
How are models different from methods ?
In
education we have ‘goals’….. but models provide us ‘effects’
Use
Models
of teaching can be used to
1.Shape
the curriculum
2.Design
instructional material
3.Guide
instructional process
4.Formulate
teaching theories
Tips for
Classroom transaction
*The
duration of a lesson based on a model can vary from 15 minutes to 45minutes or
even up to 90 minutes.
Eg:
Gagne has identified six performances viz; Specific responding , Chaining,
Multiple discrimination, Classifying , Rule using and Problem Solving.
So,
a lesson to cover all the six performances will require more than 45 minutes!
*The
lesson plans based on models of teaching need not have ‘columns’ . What is
important is that the steps/ Phases in each model should be followed.
*As
the models have a psychological theory of learning to support it , the learner/
user of a model of teaching
should be familiar with the theory of learning, related to that model.
(Please
see Part II for more details)
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