Methods of instruction!

When it comes to teaching- specifically teaching social studies, teachers have many different ways to approach teaching. By allowing yourself to incorporate many different models, strategies, and methods in your teaching, you are allowing your students to learn better.
Strategies are a set of steps that you have to follow in order to complete a particular model. Some strategies for teaching are direct instruction, indirect/cognitive, indirect/interactive, and indirect/individual. These strategies relies on teachers to talk and relay information to their students. Then the students will relay the information back to them through a form of assessment; quizzes, tests, independent practices, etc. Some different models of teaching are behavioral, information processing, social-interactive and personal. In all of these models you are giving your students a chance to engage in the information and think for themselves and not have teacher taught instruction! This will allow your students to share their knowledge with one another and with you. All their shared knowledge will help boost their confidence on the matter taught.  These different forms of methods can help you teach every subject in an effective and carefully planned way. Overall, all models, strategies and methods used in teaching should be used in your students' best interests.