Models, Strategies, and Methods

Models, Strategies, and Methods

When it comes to teaching any subject, teachers have different approaches and methods to teaching. You can model the information you are teaching in many different ways in order to gain the attention and interest of every student. By allowing yourself to incorporate many different models, strategies, and methods in your teaching, you are allowing your students to learn better. Some different models of teaching are behavioral, information processing, social-interactive and personal. In all of these models you are giving your students a chance to engage in the information and think for themselves. You want your students' to share their intelligence and experiences to be able to gain confidence in their skills and share with their peers what they know.

Strategies are a set of steps that you have to follow in order to complete a particular model. Some strategies for teaching are direct instruction, indirect/cognitive, indirect/interactive, and indirect/individual. All of these strategies relies on the teacher to talk and rely the information, and then allows the student to relay the information back to them through a form of assessment. Whether it is group work, individual work, or whole class discussions, different teaching strategies allows your class to think about what was just said and apply it to their own knowledge. Teaching strategies provides time for the teacher to say what is needed to be said and then have the students' go off and think and work for themselves. 

Methods of teaching are more specific. They are examples of the information being taught; methods are different ways in which you will share the information you want to be taught. Different methods of teaching can apply to just about anything you do in the classroom. How you teach something, how you assess something, how you present a project or worksheet, etc. Your methods in teaching need to be carefully thought out and applied to your students' in a way where they know they will succeed with the information. You never want to present an example or method if you don't believe it is the best way to show or teach your students'. Overall, all models, strategies  and methods used in teaching should be used in your students' best interests. 

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