The role of a teacher in the simulation model is that of __________.

Concept

In a teaching model, a role is a named function the teacher performs during instruction. In the simulation-model chapter of Bruce Joyce and Marsha Weil’s Models of Teaching, the teacher functions are explaining, refereeing, coaching, and discussing.

Explaining establishes the rules, procedures, concepts, and purposes before participants act, so they can operate meaningfully within the simulated situation.

Application

The stem asks which offered value appears in that teacher-function list. “Explaining” is the only offered value included in the list.

Contrast

• Designing constructs the simulation and its materials before implementation.

• Describing recounts features or events, especially during reflection, but is not one of the model’s four named teacher functions.

• Choosing activity is a lesson-planning decision about selecting a learning task, not one of the four named functions.

Result

Therefore, the teacher role asked for is Explaining.