Teaching Perspectives Inventory

The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI)

UBC Education professors Dan Pratt and the late John Collins spent years researching teachers' different approaches to teaching, both here in Canada and in some other countries (including China, Singapore and the US). They identified five differing perspectives on teaching that all of us share to some degree, and developed a self-test to help teachers think about which of these perspectives inform their own philosophy of teaching the most.

http://teachingperspectives.com

At this site, you can take the free self-test and get immediate results and interpretation (according to Pratt and Collins' criteria) of your own most and least dominant teaching perspectives.

Take the test, think about the results, and write a brief blog post about:

1) What the test said about your teaching perspectives, and

2) Your response and interpretation of those results. Do you agree that these are currently your perspectives on teaching? How do you want to develop your approaches to teaching based on your starting points in your personal philosophy of teaching and learning?