Madeline Cheek Hunter - Theories On Education

Theories On Education

Madeline Hunter developed the Instructional Theory into Practice teaching model. It is a direct instruction program that was implemented in thousands of schools throughout the United States.

Hunter identified seven components for teaching:

1. knowledge of human growth and development
2. content
3. classroom management
4. materials
5. planning
6. human relations
7. instructional skills

Hunter also developed a direct instructional model and elements of effective instruction.

The instructional model has seven components:

1. objectives
2. standards
3. anticipatory set
4. teaching (input, modeling, checking for understanding)
5. guided practice/monitoring
6. closure
7. independent practice

The elements of effective instruction are very similar to those of the instructional model, featuring seven components of teaching and behavioral objectives:

1. objectives
2. set(hook)
3. standards/expectations
4. teaching (input, modeling/demo, direction giving, and checking for understanding)
5. guided practice
6. closure
7. independent practice

Hunter was the creator of Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP). ITIP is a teaching model on inservice/staff development program widely used during the 1970s and 1980s.

Madeline Cheek Hunter. (n.d.). Biographies. Retrieved November 5, 2008, from Answers.com Web site:

http://www.answers.com/topic/madeline-cheek-hunter

Saxon, Wolfgang. "Madeline C. Hunter, Teaching Innovator And an Author, 78." Obituaries. 3 Feb. 1994. The New York Times.

29 Oct. 2008