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Leslie Owen Wilson/Updated Fall 2002
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Hunter Model Lesson Plans Index
The Hunter Model or Drill That Skill
These are highly structured plans devised using the classic, repetitive lesson model developed by the late school principal and long-time educator Madeline Hunter. The traditional steps of the Hunter Model were designed for the explicit purpose of having students get it right the first time through. Erroneously some school administrators have used the model to analyze teaching performances. Please note that during her lifetime, Hunter was emphatic that it was never her intention that her model should have been used in this way.
Without considerable thought and revision, the model's repetitive structure it is not appropriate for open-ended, discovery learning sessions, or educational experiences requiring divergent thinking skills, creative problem solving, or higher level thinking. The model is an excellent one for content or processes that benefit from repetition, and is more readily suited for lessons which emphasize the lower tier of Bloom's taxonomy -- knowledge, comprehension, and application.
1) Anticipatory Set – Getting students ready and/or excited to accept instruction. (Please note that giving directions may be part of the procedural dialog of a lesson, but in and of themselves directions are NOT an Anticipatory Set !!!!! The key word here is "anticipatory" -- do something that creates a sense of anticipation in the students -- an activity, a game, a discussion, view a film or video clip, field trip, reflective exercise, etc.. )
2) Stated Objectives – Letting students know where they are going.
3) Input Modeling/Modeled Practice – Making sure students get it right the first time by showing and demonstrating.
4) Guided Practice - Making sure students have it right! Can they replicate what you want them to do?
5) Independent Practice - Doing it by themselves.
6) Closure - Bringing it all to a close - one more time. What did they accomplish? What did they learn?
