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What does it mean to educate or teach?
It's important to know how you approach teaching. Are you nurturing? Developmental? Do your beliefs match your actions? Follow the link to the Teaching Perspectives Inventory. It's free, and will provide you with information that will enhance your personal interactions with students.
After receiving your individualized profile based on your results, do some self-reflection. Does it match up with how you view yourself as a clinical educator? If you've never had a student, this profile might give you some insight into what you value.
If you are having issues with a student, the TPI can help bridge the gap between how you approach instruction vs. how they receive information.
After reflecting on your results, click on the categories below to get a more detailed explanation.
Transmission
Transmission
In your mind, being an effective instructor means you have to be an expert in your subject. Your responsibilities are to represent the content accurately and efficiently. Your student's responsibilities are to learn the information. You are enthusiastic and convey this to your students.
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship
In your view, effective instruction includes socializing students into new professional and behavioral norms. You are highly skilled in what you teach. You feel the need to reveal your inner-workings and translate that to your student. You know what your learner can do on their own, and where they need guidance and direction. You meet learners where they are. As they increase their competence, your role changes. You offer less direction and give your student more responsibility as they progress to independent clinicians.
Social Reform
Social Reform
Your primary goal in teaching is to change society in big ways. The object is the collective good, not just the individual. You try to stimulate the values and ideologies within your discipline. You challenge the status quo, and discussions center more around why and for what purpose things are done, rather than knowledge iteself.
Developmental
Developmental
Your belief is that effective instruction must be planned and managed from your student's point of view. You understand how your students think about the information. Your goal is to help your student develop by moving from simple to complex tasks, and providing chunks of knowledge that allow them time to develop their own understanding of the material.
Nurturing
Nurturing
You believe that effective teaching involves persistent effort and energy from both the heart and head. You provide clear standards and expectations to motivate your students and provide a balance of educational and emotional support. You believe that learning is best supported by instructor and peers, and achievement is a result of effort and ability. You do not lower your standards, but help students set challenging but achievable goals. You reinforce effort and achievement and acknowledge individual growth along the way.
The TPI will also create Sub-categories:
The TPI will also create Sub-categories:
Beliefs: Your beliefs about teaching and learning
Intentions: What your intentions are for teaching and learning
Actions: What actions are taken while teaching
If your scores in these areas are within 1-2 points of each other, they'll be considered "consistent," meaning your actions align well with what you hoped to accomplish as a teacher and with your teaching philosophies.
If your scores are more than 3 points different than each other, they are considered "inconsistent." This means more self-reflection is needed. Perhaps there is a discrepancy between what you do as a teacher (actions) and the outcomes you intend. Or perhaps the outcomes you see (intentions) do not align with what you feel is important (beliefs). You can always take the TPI again, especially after attending professional development workshops, to track your progress with these discrepancies.
After completing the TPI, please move on to "Do This, not That" to help you set the tone with your student on the first day of training.
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