Teaching Perspective Inventory

Here are the results of my TPI self-quiz:

Date of survey:11/24/2020

Name of respondent:Ben Gregson

Association group:No, I am not a member of any of these groups

Area of learning:Secondary

Subject of teaching:math

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Transmission Total: (Tr):35 (B = 12; I = 10; A = 13)

Apprenticeship Total: (Ap):38 (B = 11; I = 15; A = 12)

Developmental Total: (Dv):39 (B = 12; I = 15; A = 12)

Nurturing Total: (Nu):41 (B = 14; I = 15; A = 12)

Social Reform Total: (SR):24 (B = 7; I = 9; A = 8)

Beliefs total: (B)56

Intentions total: (I)64

Action total: (A)57

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Mean: (M)35.4

Standard Deviation: (SD)6.02

Dominant Threshold: (HIT)41.42

Recessive Threshold: (LOT)29.38

Overall Total: (T)177

 

My TPI test said that my teaching perspective is dominated by apprenticeship, development, and nurturing. However, social reform is recessive in my teaching perspective. Transmission is almost but just below the boundary for being a dominant perspective of my teaching.

I interpret these results to mean that I care about my student’s well-being more than any other aspect of my teaching. I am encouraged by this result because I believe in holistic teaching and putting what we are learning in perspective in terms of making our overall lives better. Also, students will not be able to learn if they have some problem in their life preoccupying them, so a nurturing perspective is the only perspective that can help these students learn. Furthermore, students learn better when they know that their teacher cares about them and their life outside of school. Next, I value apprenticeship, development and transmission of knowledge. Lastly, I value social reform the least of these 5 categories.

I was not surprised and I agree with most of these results because I feel like that they are a true representation of how I feel about teaching. I feel that social reform is more of a priority for me than this result shows. Moving forward, because I see that social reform is not a priority in my teaching, I will look for ways to try to include more of that in my teaching. To do this, I will include examples related to the environment, sustainability and climate change issues.

One question that this TPI result raises for me is about how to connect the subcategories within each category. Beliefs, intentions and actions are all related but how can I increase the relationship between them? In other words, how can I turn my beliefs into intentions and then into actions?