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Peer reviewedLeahy, Robert – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1977
The spectrum of teaching styles is a continuum of seven models: command, task, reciprocal, individual (teacher-designed), guided discovery, problem solving, and individual program (student-designed). A progression through these styles increasingly promotes student responsibility in decisions regarding teacher-learner transactions. Major categories…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Learning Activities, Student Role, Student Teacher Relationship
Peer reviewedWilliams, Robert O. – Theory into Practice, 1980
Teachers are in constant search of new and better methods for bringing learning experiences to their students. A model to assist the teacher in selecting different classroom teaching methods defines the purpose of schooling, the learning process, and the learner and selects an appropriate and compatible teaching method. (JN)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Processing
Download full textStimac, Michele – 1978
In an age when decision making is becoming more and more significant for us human beings as we face dilemmas about whether or not to clone, to engineer behavior on mass scale, to expand or to decrease nuclear power, we educators must assist students to increase their decision-making skills. Many of our students will soon be decision makers for…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Simon, Martin A. – 1993
Constructivist epistemologies have been instrumental in recent research on mathematics learning and have provided a basis for recent mathematics education reform efforts. Although constructivism has the potential to inform changes in mathematics teaching, it offers no particular vision of how mathematics should be taught; models of teaching based…
Descriptors: Area, Concept Teaching, Constructivism (Learning), Decision Making
Regan, Helen B.; And Others – 1992
This book presents a conceptual model that supports a comprehensive program for professional development and evaluation. "The Professional Educator Development Model" is a framework that includes both a reconceptualization of teachers' roles and renewed consideration of how teachers' beliefs and desired student outcomes influence teacher…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Beginning Teachers, Cultural Context, Decision Making
Peer reviewedCourt, Deborah – Social Studies, 1991
Assesses critical thinking teaching models, including skill development, problem-solving, logical thinking, multiaspect, and information processing approaches. Stresses creating open classroom environments where critical thinking that fosters effective, thoughtful decision making can flourish. Argues that teaching can and should be less…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking
