Oct 4 - TPI Analysis


My TPI gave me the highest score for a nurturing teaching perspective and the lowest score for the social reform teaching perspective, while my remaining three: transmission, apprenticeship and developmental teaching perspectives were all equal and my average score. My nurturing perspective was above average and my social reform teaching perspective was below average. I was not surprised that nurturing was my highest score as I value student confidence in learning above all, however I noticed my score in belief and intention were higher than my score for actual action. This was interesting because it made me question what aspects of my teaching would constitute actions versus intention and belief, and since I believe in nurture so much I wondered how I could continue to live this belief truly by acting on it. I think that is what surprised me most about my TPI. Although I have belief and intention to nurture my students, maybe I don't truly understand what it means to be nurturing in practice. Everything else on my TPI was consistent with what I expected. I don't intend to use transmission perspectives in my teaching, but by the nature of my subject, science and math, I think it tends to show more in my actions. Also, I have only been exposed to apprenticeship methods of teaching so it makes sense that most of my intentions and actions reflect that style. The same can be said about developmental perspectives. Social reform perspectives are something I never had exposure to in my own education, so I don't have a true connection to it. I think it is a great thing if students want to work towards social reform, but as a teacher it is not something I value in my practice. I care most about helping my students gain confidence and develop a knowledge base that they can depend on and be proud of. I am happy with my current teaching philosophies, however, something I learned from taking this TPI is that it is not enough to believe or intend to make a change or adopt a practice. Moving forward I hope to put more action to my beliefs and intentions.

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