Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching

Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching

Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (MELT) guide the development of student sophisticated thinking and rely on educator professional judgement and adaptation.

• Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching all focus on students’ thinking skills.
• MELT are best used to scaffold thinking skill development in repeated use so that MELT become thinking routines for students.
• Engaged teachers are vital for this process, for MELT provides broad guidelines, but educators typically change the terminology to make MELT fluid and learning active.

The models are from one family that relies on engaged teachers to facilitate student engagement. They clarify for students the types of thinking they need for school, university and life.  If you are a teacher or supervisor of any age-group, the MELT inform you about how to scaffold complex learning and require your professional judgement and adaptation of your own model. The first of the MELT was the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework, developed in 2006, and a variety of models have been adapted by teachers since 2009.