TEACHING PERSPECTIVE INVENTORY

TEACHING PERSPECTIVE INVENTORY

The teaching perspective inventory helps to assess the self as a teacher over the content and it gives direction and justification for our actions. It’s a lens through which teaching and learning is seen. The perspectives are a mix of beliefs, intentions and actions.

The teaching perspective inventory reveals mean score as 34.4 and SD as ± 2.5. The self-description of the teaching perspective inventory reveals that the scores are moderate and it lies between 40-30. As each perspective holds a different philosophical view point, the test reveals that the recessive score is transformation and the dominant perspective is nurturing, which means that I am more concern about the self-concept and self-efficacy of the learners and care deeply about the students and support their effort with their achievement. I am more committed about the students as a whole not only their intellectual capacity. Therefore there is a balance between challenging students to do their best while supporting and nurturing their effort to be successful.

According to Qualter (2002), it is important to remember is that each of these perspectives holds the potential for both good and poor teaching. It also becomes critical that we as teachers reflect upon what we do, why we do it, and on what assumptions we base our practice as teachers. By undertaking this, we will be able to revisit and readjust, if necessary, our own assumptions and pre-conceived notions about teaching and learning. By doing this we will continually improve the educational climate for our students.

Overall these perspectives gives a general view of teaching and helps to view where we stand as an individual, whereas some important aspects in teaching is not considered here. There is more than one right way to be a good teacher. These perspectives are just a tool to see what we believe, intend and actions are.

Reference

Deggs,D.M. (2008), The Significance of Teaching Perspectives Among Academic Disciplines, College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal,4(8). Retrieved from www.graduatestudenthelp.com/.../FivePerspectivesonTeaching.pdf

Qualters,D (2002), What’s YOUR Perspective on Teaching: Teaching Perspectives Spring 2002. Retrieved Methods & Styles Journal. Retrieved from April 1, 2013, from http://www.stu.ca/publications/teaching/spring2002/perspective.htm