Models of Teaching

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Models of Teaching

• EEX 3257
• Spring 2006

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Motivation to Learn

• Teacher Characteristics
• A safe and orderly classroom
• Instructional factors

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INTASC Principles(Interstate New Teacher
Assessment and Support Consortium)

• Knowledge of subject
• Learning and human development
• Adapting instruction
• Strategies
• Motivation and management

• Communication skills
• Planning
• Assessment
• Commitment
• Partnership

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Teaching for Understanding

• Identify learning objectives
• Select teaching strategies
• Provide examples and representations

• Encourage active student involvement on learning
• Guide students
• Continually monitor evidence of learning

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What factors influence choice of strategy?

• Teacher
• Student
• Content

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Strategies vs Models

• Strategies
• Questioning
• Organizing lessons
• Providing feedback
• Ending lessons with review and closure

• Models
• Designed for specific forms of content and to
  develop critical-thinking abilities
• Include a series of specific steps
• Grounded in learning theory
• Supported by motivation theory

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Theories of Learning

• Behavioral theory
• Cognitive theory

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Behavioral Theory

• Learning is
• Change in behavior
• Result of experience
• Learning depends upon
• Reinforcement
• Punishment

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Cognitive Theory

• Theories of learning primarily concerned with
• Perception
• Problem solving
• Information processing
• Understanding
• Seeks to understand
• . The nature of information
• How information is organized and acquired
• How information can be recalled and analyzed or
  modified

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Blooms Taxonomy Original and Revised

• Evaluation
• Synthesis
• Analysis
• Application
• Comprehension
• Knowledge

• Creating
• Evaluating
• Analyzing
• Applying
• Understanding
• Remembering

(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking
to Learn, p. 8)
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Sample Unit Travel
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Blooms Practice

• Choose a lesson topic
• Using the handouts, develop an objective or
  activity and questions related to your lesson
  topic for each level of Blooms taxonomy