10 models of teaching

• Direct Instruction: Effective for teaching skills to the point of routine, correct use and for easy recall of basic facts. Provides the guided and independent practice necessary for particular skills to become a part of a student's repertoire.

• Concept Attainment and the Inductive Model: Students come to understand concepts better and retain them longer because they are actively involved in investigating their components and how they differ from other concepts.

• Reciprocal Teaching and Question-Answer Relationship: Provides students with very specific protocols for strengthening comprehension of texts by interacting with other students and the teacher using a series of steps that eventually supports students becoming strategic readers.

• Jigsaw: A structure for having students teach each other that profits from putting into practice the truth-be-told adage that we learn best what we teach to others.

• Role Playing: Has students interacting in scenarios that support greater understanding due to the intellectual, emotional, and imaginative dimensions of learning that it engages.

• Inquiry-Based Learning: Engages interest and even curiosity by having students work through the learning process herself by pursuing the answer to questions that are the basis for learning rather than having knowledge already packaged, streamlined, and delivered by the teacher.

• Synectics: Helps students develop insight into what they write and how they write it by using a protocol that produces fresh and different ways of describing human experience and relationships.

• Advance Organizers: Helps students understand and organize information they are about to learn by giving them a conceptual framework for the new learning that students readily understand and therefore serves to clarify important concepts as they learn.