Title: Developing a Philosophy of Teaching - Workshop Bob Bulik, Ph.D. Office of Educational Development
1Developing a Philosophy of Teaching - Workshop
Bob Bulik, Ph.D.Office of Educational
Development
2Objectives1. Identify the components of a
personal teaching beliefs statement2. Reflect
on your own assumptions and beliefs about
learners, aims of teaching, subject matter, and
student-teacher interactions3. Begin to create
a Philosophy of Teaching for inclusion in a
Faculty Teaching Portfolio
Teaching Beliefs Workshop
3Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Beliefs
Feelings
Behaviors
4Teaching Beliefs Workshop
- In his book, The Reflective Practitioner, Donald
Schön - uses the terms reflection-on-action and
reflection- - in-action as key to improving clinical practice.
Schön D. The Reflective Practitioner How
Professionals Think in Action. New York Basic
Books. 1983.
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6Teaching Beliefs Workshop
- Process.
- Belief Framework
- individual reflection
- group talk
- group reporting
- metaphor / model-building
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- Framework for Analyzing Beliefs About Teaching
- Beliefs about learners
- Beliefs about the aims of teaching
- Beliefs about the subject matter
- Beliefs about the teacher-learner transaction
Apps, J.W. Foundations of Effective Teaching.
In F.R. Hayes (Ed.). Effective teaching
styles. New Directions for Continuing Education,
no. 43 San Francisco Josey-Bass, 1989.
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- Beliefs About the Learner
- What do you believe about human beings?
- their potential for growth and development
- their ability to change / improve
- their motivation for learning (intrinsic /
extrinsic) - nature vs. nurture
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- Beliefs About the Aims of Teaching
- What ought we to be accomplishing as a teacher?
- what does it mean to meet student needs?
- what is the role of distance learning?
- what do you hope to accomplish as a teacher?
- is learning how to learn important?
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- Beliefs About Subject Matter
- LCME ED-5 requirements and an AAMC report have
- Identified life-long learning as an important
outcome of - medical education. Faculty should have as their
first goal - to encourage students to develop lifelong
learning skills. - do you agree?
- to whom do you teach to what level do you
teach? - what is the balance between subject-specific
teaching and encouraging self-directed learning?
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- Beliefs About the Teaching-Learning Transaction
- What do you believe is the optimum environment
for - learning?
- what is your role in the transaction (implies
two-way)? - what are your beliefs about feedback?
- how do you learn best?
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- Metaphors
- Sage On The Stage
- Guide By Your Side
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- Metaphors
- Metaphors and slogans exist in use and in
- the literature, as generalizations and implied
- comparisons they are chosen primarily
- because they appeal to the feelings of the
- reader.
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- Metaphors
- Teacher as Craftsman
- Teacher as Artist
- Teacher as Applied Scientist
- Teacher as Trainer
- Teacher as Lamplighter
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- My Metaphor
- The requirement for faculty (and students) to
- co-establish learning environments requires an
- emphasis not only on the knowledge provided
- by the Sage or the skills imparted by a Guide,
- but a new metaphor for learning the 21st
- Century will need faculty who Outfit their
- students to be problem-solving, self-directed,
- life-long learners.
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- Verbal Linguistic
- Visual Spatial
Metaphor / Model-Building w / Barbara