The purpose of explicit teacher modeling is to provide students with a clear, multi-sensory model of a skill or concept. The teacher is the person best equipped to provide such a model. As a child’s first teacher, a parent should exhibit the following skills.

 

What is it?

-Teacher both describes and models the math skill/concept.

-Teacher clearly describes features of the math concept or steps in performing math skill.

-Teacher breaks math concept/skill into learnable parts.

-Teacher describes/models using multi-sensory techniques.

-Teacher engages students in learning through demonstrating enthusiasm, through maintaining a lively pace, through periodically questioning students, and through checking for student understanding.

 

What are the critical elements of this strategy?

 

There are eight essential components of explicit instruction:

 

Concept/skill is broken down into critical features/elements.

Teacher clearly describes concept/skill.

Teacher clearly models concept/skill.

Multi-sensory instruction (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic)

Teacher thinks aloud as she/he models.

Teacher models examples and non-examples.

Cueing

High levels of teacher-student interaction

 

 

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Resource: http://fcit.usf.edu/mathvids/strategies/em.html