Importance of a Teaching Model
Teaching models are useful tools that help teachers focus teaching concepts on theories. “When teachers plan an activity, some students participate actively but others do not show any interest. We know that students have different backgrounds and learning experiences, therefore, we cannot expect that all learn in the same way” (Paredes, 2017, p. 191). This point suggests that teachers are aware that diverse backgrounds and experiences need different methods to teaching activities.
Since students have different learning styles and different multiple intelligence they process and adapt to a learning processes differently. Maheshwari noted that:
Teaching models merely suggest how various teaching and learning conditions are interrelated. In many fields models are prototypes of theories because they make possible our early conceptualization and study of phenomena. (Maheshwari, 2013, para 1)
Teaching models can help teachers modify information and build on concepts based on different learning activities.
Teaching and learning should be managed together not only by the teacher but the student as both play a key role in the management of the teaching and learning process. A teaching model provides teachers with a process for working through learning plans, curriculum design and changes that can be used to analyze and evaluate proposed activities and assessment. Since there are many different models that teachers can use, this chapter will be evaluated to show how different models can be used in the teaching process. The first model that will be reviewed is the Glaser teaching model.