1. Focus
2. Syntax
3. Principles of Reaction
4. Social System
5. Support System
1. Focus: Every model of teaching is highly specific in the sense that it isconstructedforachievingcertaindefiniteandwelldefinedobjectives.Itcannotbeusedfor achieving any other purpose. Focus of a model of teaching, therefore, means the specified objectives, which a model of teaching, intends to achieve, once the focus has been described, all other aspects of teaching arc determined in relation to only this focus. Thus, focus of …show more content…
Tell how the teacher should treat the students in the class, how he should respond to what the student does. They tell the teacher or the materials-maker how to program his behavior while developing a unit or performing an activity. In the words of Joyce (p.238) they mean "the principles which govern the reactions or responses of teachers to the activity of the learner," For example some models require the teacher to be corrective reshaping the behavior of the student along a predetermined line. While using a particular model of teaching the learner is not free to treat and manipulate the students, as he likes. Rather he has to follow the principles specific to the …show more content…
It is not possible to describe all of them even in brief. However a classification of a few most important of these is presented below. These have been grouped according to the purpose they serve into four groups-(1) information processing models, (2) social interaction models, (3) personality development models and (4) behavior modification models. Joye andWeil discuss these all the four families of models of teaching in Models of Teaching. Within each family there are a number of models of teaching as