Meaning
Teaching models are designs for creating curriculum, selecting instructional objectives, and selecting instructional material. It is also helpful in creating the teaching-learning environment; it develops the learning activities for the students. It ensures the maximum achievement of instructional objectives. A good teaching model must contain following things:
- strategies
- techniques
- teaching methods
- instructional objectives
- teaching aids
- good teaching-learning environment
- learning situations for the students
Teaching models follows the basic process for the classroom performance (teacher), which are as follows:
Structure
The structure of a teaching model is a very important point from the point of view of the teacher as well as for the student. The structure of a model provides the information about what to teach, how to teach, and when to teach in the classroom. It basically comprises a set of strategies, techniques, teaching aids, teaching material, and teaching methods or skills. These are the essential components of the structure of a model.
Process
The process is very important for a teaching model because it involves the delivery of the instructions to the student, and it involves the activities that are planned at the beginning before the teaching. It is basically the teaching process that a teacher does in the classroom for achieving the instructional objectives, which are pre-constructed.
Evaluation
This is necessary to evaluate what extent of knowledge is grabbed by the students through the teaching model, to what extent the learning objectives are fulfilled, and what is being taken care of. The evaluation is done for every aspect of the teaching model.
Definition
"Models of teaching are well structured, logically consistent, cohesive and lucidly described alternative pattern of teaching" – Schaefer
Components/Elements of a Teaching Model
- Focus
- Syntax
- Social System
- Principle of Reaction
- Support System
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Focus
Focus is the main point in a teaching model; simply, it is an objective and tells about what the reason is for teaching a particular topic in the classroom. It assumes the student’s behavior before the teaching and simply determines the student's behavior in the classroom. The focus of a teaching model is related to the instructional objectives, which are achieved through the teaching-learning process.
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Syntax
Syntax refers to the phases or the stages as to how it begins and what the sequence of activities is. These sequences are unique to the specific models.
Social System
It describes the role of students and the teacher and the relationship between them. It is all about the activities of a teacher, student, and the activities themselves. It provides the information about the connection of each and everything in the classroom.
Principle of Reaction
It is the reaction or mode of a teacher when a learner responds to a particular thing.
Support System
It refers to the material that supported a teacher while instructing students through any teaching model. It can be a journal, textbook, article, newspaper, any blog, audio-visual aid, or other learning object.