The purpose of this study was to find out the criteria for the classification of teaching method. For the attainment of the study the specific objectives were formulated as follows. 1. To clarify the concept of teaching 2. To define the concept of tea...
The purpose of this study was to find out the criteria for the classification of teaching method. For the attainment of the study the specific objectives were formulated as follows. 1. To clarify the concept of teaching 2. To define the concept of teaching method 3. To review the categories for classification of teaching methods 4. To infer the criteria from categories of classifying teaching method. This study included only several categories of teaching methods by Cohen, Gage, Mckeachie, Nuthall & Snook, McNeil, Joyce & Weil, etc. More specially, their categories of teaching methods are as follows : Soltis & Fenster macher\ s approaches to teaching(the executive approach, the therapist approach, and the liberatationist approach), Cohen\ s approaches(instrumentalist approach, learner oriented approach and hiberal approach), Gage\ s patterned behavior(lecture, discussion, simulation, etc.). Mosston\ s teaching from command to discovery (command style) task style, reciprocal style, indivisual program, guided discovery and proble solving, Joyce & Weil\ s category(social interaction models, information processing models, personal models and behavior modification models), Alexander, Saylor and Lewis\ s teaching models(community activities, discussion-questioning, group investigation, independent learning, inquiry training, instructional systems design, jurisprudential, lecture, practice & drill, programmed instruction, role playing, simulation of games, synectics, and viewing-listening. Mckeachie category(teacher-centered & student-centered), Borich\ s category(Direct instruction strategies & indirect instruction strategies, and Nuthall & Snook\ s category , Behavior-control or behavior modification model, discovery learning model, and rational model). The criteria for the classification of teaching methods were drawn from the categories reviewed. The results of the study were summarized as follows. 1. Teaching is defined as an act to manipulate environments to induce learning intentionally and systematically. 2. Teaching method can be defined as patterns of teacher behavior that are recurrent, applicable to various subject matters, characteristic of more than one teacher and relevant to learning. 3. The criteria for classification of teaching methods. 1) Educational goals, objectives 2) Educational contents 3) Behavioral pattern 4) Initiation 5) Direction 6) Decision making 7) Structure 8) Autonomy-control 9) Interdependence 10) Learning process 11) Rationality 12) Presentation method 13) Teaching media 14) Grouping In conclusion, the criteria for classification of teaching methods depends on views of Education. That is to say, the different views on objectives, contents and method of education require different teaching methods. There is no absolute criteria for classification of teaching methods.