Ed5001 Models of teaching for the XXI century´s classroom

In this course a repertoire of models will be explored. The models are geared towards both formal and non-formal classroom settings, utilizing a variety of technological tools. Classrooms can be virtual or traditional. The models of teaching create environments and provide general guidelines for designing and constructing teaching-learning situations according to determined objectives and types of content. The models of teaching can be grouped according to 5 theories. The first centers on the development of the individual personality. The second focuses on the group and its interpersonal abilities and social commitment. The third is oriented towards the development of investigation habits and intellectual capacity while the fourth and fifth apply models derived from conductivism and constuctivism respectively.

Objectives:

• Analyze the strategies and techniques of teaching that have been successful in contemporary educational contexts in light of new instructional trends.
• Apply and select instructional strategies according to different objectives and disciplinary content.
• Design experiences of teaching-learning that are based on strategies previously selected and adapted to immediate contexts in which technology may be used.

Content:

• Unit 1 - Culture of the Classroom
• Unit 2 - Theoretical reflections on teaching
• Unit 3 - Theoretical bases of teaching models
• Unit 4 - Models of Teaching
  a. Social Models
  b. Information Processing Models
  c. Personal Models
  d. Behaviorist Models
  e. Constructivist Models

Suggested Bibliography:

• Orlich, D., C., Kauchak, D., Harder, R.J., Pendergrass, R.A., Callahan, R.C., Keogh, A.J. and Gibson, H. (1995). Técnicas de enseñanza. Modernización en el aprendizaje. México: Limusa
• Weil, M. and Joyce, B.R. (1999). Models of teaching. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Costa, A. and Liebmann, R. (1997). The process-centered school: Sustaining a Renaissance Community. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Corwin Press.