Question

Models belonging to the 'Personal Family' primarily focus on:

• A. Developing social interaction skills.
• B. Acquiring specific information and data organization.
• C. Personal development, self-esteem, and emotional understanding.
• D. Achieving highly structured, observable outcomes.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Personal development, self-esteem, and emotional understanding.

Families of Models of Teaching

• Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil (1980) classified models into four families. They are: -

1. Personal family

2. Social Interaction family

3. Information Processing family

4. The Behavioural Systems family

The Personal Family

• Models which belongs to this family deal with the personal development of the individual.

• This group of approaches acknowledges the uniqueness of each learner.

• Methods in this category foster the importance of individuals in creating, directing, and structuring personal meaning.

• Also models in this area are often targeted to foster things like self-esteem, self-efficacy, emotional and personal understanding and acceptance.

• The primary goals are :-

► To help students understand

► To increase the students sense of self worth.

► To help students refine their emotion

► To foster the students creativity

• The models which belong to this family are :-

• Non-directive Teaching Model - Carl Roger

• Synectics Model - William J.J. Gordon

• Awareness Training Model - William Schutz and George Brown

• Class room meeting Model - William Glasser