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Blog Task 1B - Writing 4  

The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI)

Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) is an instrument which is used to measure what a teacher understands and puts  into action in teaching.

Researchers classified the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) as five perspectives namely Transmission, Apprenticeship, Developmental, Nurturing and Social Reform perspectives.

Transmission	In this perspective, delivering the content or subject matter effectively is the success of the teacher.
Apprenticeship	This perspective of teaching understands the behavior of the students while catering accordingly by making the students responsible to work on their own.
Developmental	Developmental Perspective of teaching is a teaching perspective where “questioning” and “bridging knowledge”(providing meaningful examples) is more challengeable to learners.
Nurturing	This perspective is about holistic education and in turn results in development of self-efficiency of learners.
Social Reform	It is about teaching in a more social perspective than concerning individual development.

Each teacher has his/her own teaching perspective which the capabilities of the teacher give way for teaching. In my opinion those perspectives also can be identified under one or two of the above mentioned Teaching Perspectives Inventory.

THINK ABOUT YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHING!

Reference:

http://teachingperspectives.com/drupal/tpi/summary-five-perspectives

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Blog Task 1B - Writing 3

The Asch Conformity Experiment

“In psychological terms, conformity refers to an individual's tendency to follow the unspoken rules or behaviors of the social group to which he or she belongs.”

The experiment was conducted in 1951 by Solomon Asch.

One of the pairs of cards used in the experiment. The card on the left has the reference line and the one on the right shows the three comparison lines.

“Each participant was placed in a room with seven "confederates" (actors). Confederates knew the true aim of the experiment, but were introduced as participants to the "real" participant. Participants were shown a card with a line on it, followed by a card with three lines on it (lines labeled A, B and C, respectively). Participants were then asked to say aloud, which line (i.e., A, B or C) matched the line on the first card in length. Each line question was called a "trial". Prior to the experiment, all confederates were given specific instructions on how they should respond to each trial. Specifically, they were told to unanimously give the correct response or unanimously give the incorrect response. The group sat in a manner so that the real participant was always the last to respond (i.e., the real participant sat towards the end of a table). 

For the first two trials, the participant would feel at ease in the experiment, as he and the confederates gave the obvious, correct answer. On the third trial, the confederates would all give the same wrong answer, placing the participant in a dilemma. There were 18 trials in total and the confederates answered incorrectly for 12 of them. These 12 were known as the "critical trials". The aim was to see whether the real participant would change his answer and respond in the same way as the confederates, despite it being the wrong answer.”

The Asch Experiment describes the Social Cognitive View of Motivation where an individual’s ideas are subjective to the group’s decision.

Reference:

http://psychology.about.com/od/classicpsychologystudies/p/conformity.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

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Blog Task 1B - Writing 2   

Constructivism

Constructivism is a theory about the learning style of students. Constructivism perspective of learning stresses on the point that learners have their own style of  learning by making meaning from the knowledge.

Here are some constructivist perspectives:

J. Piaget	Knowledge is processed by accommodation & assimilation.
D.A.Kolb	Experiential learning - learning by actively participating in the activities.
J.Biggs	Constructive Alignment - outcomes, activities & approach should be clearly known.

The constructivist theories draw conclusions that students learn by themselves and through social interactions. Furthermore, understanding of the learners are based on their active participation and relating the learning activities to their prior knowledge.