In Chapter 11 of the Skillful Teacher, the authors review eight main models of teaching, patterns of instruction, the difference between the two categories, and offer current outlooks on the topics. The models of teaching are grouped into four "families" of information processing, social, personal and behavioral. Each family focuses on a different area of the learner's development and leverages that area to transfer knowledge and skills.
What I found most interesting was the description of the Advanced Organizer Method. It gave a description of a method that helps students to find meaning in the content due to the subject's own interrelatedness. It cited math as a specific example and it was easy to see how this might help to push students forward. If I (or any other teacher for that matter) was able to get students invested enough in math, this approach could easily lock them into continuing to stay invested. Getting ninth graders to recongize the intrigue of how math all comes together would be the lynch pin for maximizing this model.
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