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1 Education Principles

2.1.2 Compare educational models and explain how they impact the classroom

When an educator goes about instructing a class, there are many choices they can

choose to do so. They have the option between four main pedagogies: Teacher led,

student led, response to intervention, and collaborative (teacher & student). Diving

deeper into each of these, there are educational theories and teaching strategies that

support each pedagogy. This allows for a more diverse learning environment where all

different types of learners can benefit from the varied lessons.

The first pedagogy is teacher-led. The theories most closely associated with

teacher-led are those of Jean Piget and B.F Skinner (1.1.1). Their strategies include

demonstration, lecture, direct instruction, modeling, puppets, music, and scaffolding

(1.1.2). This specific pedagogy targets behaviorism. Through the more direct teacher

instruction, the behaviors of the students are conditioned into them. The class learns how

to resect the teacher and listen with intensity. As the teacher leads the class instruction,

the students rely on the explanation from the educator to perfect the topic being taught.

But some students learn in other ways.

This leads us into the next pedagogy, which is student led. The theorists that go

along best with this method are John Dewey and Benjamin Bloom (1.1.1). The strategies

that go along with them are peer teaching, socratic seminars, cooperative learning,

centers, creating their own questions from a piece of text, and the students model the

correct way to complete a task (1.1.3). This more directly targets social constructivism.
These mean that the students will be more engaged in their own learning, as they are

working together to understand the lesson. Students will use interpersonal skills to

complete this task, so they collaborate and use critical thinking to analyze text or another

source to teach themselves and their peers and conquer the learning target. Although,

some students, for example, may struggle to be social with others or may need more help

to understand the lesson at hand, so another method may be used for them.

This is where the pedagogy where the teacher continually assesses the students to

determine the next step comes into play. The theorists that are the most closely related to

this are Benjamin Bloom and John Piget (1.1.1). The strategies for this include explicit

teaching, experiential learning, think aloud, centers, inquiry-guided learning, and concept

mapping (1.1.4). Along with student-led, this method targets social constructivism as

well. This is more of a teacher instructed learning with participation from the class. This

allows students with learning disabilities to have a good balance between instruction from

the educator, and connection of their ideas with their peers. This is also good for any

other student as they get a mix of both teacher led and student led. There is still one more

pedagogy that can be used to differentiate the classroom.

The last pedagogy is collaborative teacher and student led. The theorists for this

are Benjamin Bloom and Lev Vygotsky (1.1.1). The strategies include field trips,

experiments, teacher check ins (syations), whole class discussion, games, and white

boards (1.1.5). This method targets visualization. This more visual type of learning

allows the visual students to get their learning in the best way possible for them.

Similarly to the previously listed pedagogy, the teacher instructs with participation from
the class. The main difference between the two is that collaborative is that it is more

interactive.

In total, each of these four pedagogies play an important role in creating effective

lesson plans to suit the needs of all students. A common theorist that stands out is

Benjamin Bloom, who had his taxonomy. As it includes a pyramid with learning going

up from basic understanding to creating, it can go along with almost every pedagogy

(1.1.1). So in total, teacher led focuses on the teacher instructing the class, student led

focuses on the students instructing the class, response to intervention is a combination of

the first two to help students with learning disabilities and other barriers, and

collaboration is a combination of the first two pedagogies, only with more visual

instruction to help target the more visual students in the room. These are also effective in

all classrooms k-12. All ages of students can use these methods to process information

and grow their skills. With a combination of all four in the classroom, students are

guaranteed to succeed and will never be getting uninterested and bored in the same

routine of learning every day.