1. What do each of the five perspectives of teaching mean or represent? In your opinion, which one is the best and why?
Pratt in Bates and Pool (2003) presents five perspectives which according to some studies help teachers identify their teaching panoramas.
Teaching Perspectives:
- Transmission:
Conveying adequate content and make sure students master it - Apprenticeship:
Teacher’s management of the content and immersion of the students’ learning - Developmental
Identifying students’ reasoning in any content and evolving complex cognitive structures - Nurturing
Motivating students and creating a trustable environment to achieve anything - Social Reform
Encouraging students to take critical attitudes to make feel ready to take social action to improve their own lives and the lives of others
In this link, there is a questionnaire which can help us discover the perspective we use the most:
http://teachingperspectives.com/html/tpi_frames.htm
“The Teaching Perspectives Inventory can help you collect your thoughts and summarize your ideas about teaching. It can be useful in examining your own teaching as well as helping clarify the teaching views of other people”.
I couldn´t add my chart, but I aready completed the questions.
I'll be waiting for your comments Alex
Hi Malu,
ResponderEliminarI tried to open the link for the Inventory but it wouldn’t open. I’ll try it some other day. Hopefully, it will work! I believe it’s quite useful to know the teaching perspective that we have at this moment and be able to come back after some time and take it again to see how we have changed. I’ve found that teaching experience, studies on education, as well as the exchange of ideas with other teachers makes our teaching perspective open up and eventually change.
How many years have you been a teacher? Do you observe any differences from the way your teach and the way you were taught when you were in school?
Marybell
Hi Malú,
ResponderEliminarI particulary find interesting the quote you included by Bates and Pool (2003): “Different perspectives are likely to be influenced by the teacher’s epistemological position and views on how students best learn” (p. 42). I think it would be interesting to make a comparison between these teaching perspectives, the different learning approaches there are and the two main epistemological positions (objectivism and constructivism). For example, I believe that a constructivist epistemological position (a belief tat knowledge is subjective) is likely to lead teachers to view learning as a cognitive and social process, which in turn leads them to adopt a developmental teaching perspective.
On the other hand, having an objectivist epistemological position (which views knowledge as objective, measurable and reliable) will lead teachers to have a behavorist approach to learning and a more transmission or apprenticeship-oriented teaching perspective.
Don't you think?
See you soon!
Alex.