Developing a Philosophy of Teaching - Workshop Bob Bulik, Ph.D. Office of Educational Development

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Developing a Philosophy of Teaching - Workshop
Bob Bulik, Ph.D.Office of Educational
Development
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Objectives1. 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
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Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Beliefs
Feelings
Behaviors
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Teaching 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• Process.
• Belief Framework
• individual reflection
• group talk
• group reporting
• metaphor / model-building

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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• Metaphors
• Sage On The Stage
• Guide By Your Side

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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• Metaphors
• Teacher as Craftsman
• Teacher as Artist
• Teacher as Applied Scientist
• Teacher as Trainer
• Teacher as Lamplighter

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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• 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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Teaching Beliefs Workshop

• Verbal Linguistic
• Visual Spatial

Metaphor / Model-Building w / Barbara