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My perspectives on teaching
Each teacher
is a physically, mentally, socially and emotionally
different individual whose beliefs, attitudes and values may vary indifferently.
So each teacher will have his or her strong areas
as
well as the weak areas. To strengthen on the latter, responsibility falls on
the teachers to work on his or her weaker areas.
The TPI scores received
after the completion of the inventory, had itself focused on five important
perspectives namely; Transmission, Apprenticeship, Developmental, Nurturing
& Social Reform. According to the TPI scores and my beliefs, apprenticeship was
found to be my strongest areas. The
scores on a general basis, falls into the range between moderate
and high, with the individual perspectives held at a moderate level. In
addition to this, no marked differences were to be noticed in between the
perspective bars (not much difference in between). Having one dominant and one
recessive perspective, I agree that there is always room for improvement.
Beliefs become
intentions which in turn become actions. These inter- related sub scores showed just a small
difference of one in the TPI graph, displaying the consistency .The highest intention ,
belief and action sub-scores occurred in the most dominant perspective indicating that my
strongest area was “Apprenticeship”.
From the
philosophical point of view, subject knowledge is an essential component as
teachers need to be ready and thorough with the content before entering the
class. On the other hand it’s not possible for every teacher to be an expertise
since even teachers learn a lot from their own teaching too.
Having worked with students,
ranging from grades 1-7 in teaching English Language for the past years, I’ve always made sure that I know all
my students really well including their social backgrounds, mental capability,
social and emotional development really well. It would assist us to teach them well,
which would really add to our job satisfaction once we achieve it. I believe
that teachers have to be really skilled professionals to handle a
class of live students who are from different social backgrounds. They should
be ready to guide the students along the right path and prepare students to
live independently in this globalized world.
In conclusion, I
would say that it’s difficult to decide on
a person’s perspective on a broad
field like teaching
just through a few questions.(use
of the inventory )
