Four Models of Teaching

The four models of teaching include behavioral systems (direct instruction), information processing (inquiry training), social-interactive (cooperative learning), personal (individual instruction.) All remind me of methods of teaching that we learned in our Engligh methods class last semester, yet all can utilize some form of technology! Smartboards can be used for direct instruction, WebQuests (or Web Inquiry Projects) can be used for inquiry training, wikis (and of course WebQuests) can be used for the social-interactive model of instruction, and finally blogging can be used for the personal model where students can use that as a creative form of self-expression.