ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of models of teaching with some practical exemplars of how different models might work in different learning contexts. Teaching becomes more effective as the students progress through outstanding schools because the students have been taught to be stronger learners. Effective schools teach their pupils how to learn thus teaching becomes more effective as pupils are helped to be more effective learners. All the teaching models are backed up by formal research that tests their theories and their abilities to effect learning outcomes. While the amount of research varies from model to model, there remains a substantial research base in support of each of the four families. Social models of teaching are constructed to take advantage of co-operative relationships in the classroom and to produce integrative and productive ways of interacting which support vigorous learning activity. The personal models of teaching begin from the perspective of the individual self.
