SOCIAL

Models

Developer

Partners in Learning

David Johnson

Positive
Interdependence

Roger Johnson

Structured Inquiry

Feature
Development of strategies to help
students work effectively together.

Margarita
Calderson
Elizabeth Cohen
Robert Slavin

Group Investigation

John Dewey
Herbert Thelen

Development
participation
process.

Role Playing

Fannie Shaftel

of
in

skills
for
democratic

Simultaneously emphasises social

development, academic skills and
personal understanding.

Study of values and their role in

social interaction.
Personal understanding of values
and behaviour

Jurisprudential Inquiry

Donald Oliver
James Shaver

Analysis of policy issues through

a jurisprudential framework.
Collection of data, analysis of
value questions and positions and
study of personal beliefs

INFORMATION
PROCESSING
Models

Developer

Feature

Inductive
Thinking

Hilda Taba

Development of classification skills,

hypothesis building and testing and
understanding of how to build
conceptual
understanding
of
concept areas.

Concept
Attainment

Jerome Bruner

Used to teach concepts and to help

students become more effective at
learning
concepts
(concept
attainment).

The Picture
Word Inductive
Model

Emily Calhoun

How to acquire print literacy,

particularly reading and writing,
also how listening and speaking
vocabularies are developed.

Scientific
Inquiry

Joseph Schwab

Used
to
study
principles,
phenomena and characteristics of
scientific knowledge.

Inquiry Training

Richard Suchman

Based on the assumption that

strategies used by scientists can be
used
as
a
teaching
model
especially in the study of science

Mnemonics

Michael Pressley
Joel Levin
Richard Anderson

Strategies for memorising

assimilating information.

Synectics

William Gordon

Enhancing creative thoughts.

Advance
Organisers

David Ausubel

Provide students with a cognitive

structure
for
comprehending
material
presented
through
lectures, readings,
and other
media.

and

PERSONAL

Models
Non-Directive
Teaching

Developer
Carl Rogers

Enhancing Self-

O0A5braham

Purpose
Building capacity for personal
development, self understanding
and autonomy and esteem of self.
Development
of
personal

Esteem

Maslow

understanding and capacity for

development.

BEHAVIORIST MODELS
Models
Mastery
Learning

Developer
Benjamin Bloom
James Block

Direct
Instruction

Tom Good
Jere Brophy
Carl Bereiter
Ziggy Engleman
Wes Becker
Carl Smith
Mary Smith
Albert Bandura
Carl Thoresen
Wes Becker

Simulation
Social Learning

Programmed
Schedule
(Task
Performance
Reinforcement)

B. F. Skinner

Feature
Students can master any topic if it is
broken down into small chunks and if
they are given enough time to learn at
their own pace.
Mastery of academic content and skills
in a wide range of areas of study.

Mastery of complex skills and concepts

in a wide range of areas of study.
The
management
of
behaviour:
Learning new patterns of behaviour,
reducing
phobic
and
other
dysfunctional patterns and learning
self control.
Mastery of skills, concepts, factual
information.