2. Agenda
Questions about the course, syllabus, assignments,
Tonight’s assignment – Why Teach?
Revisiting the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
Unpacking POGIL
Dialogue Education: Jane Vella’s concept of learning
tasks
3. Themes from your Why Teach?
Papers
0Discuss in a small group:
• What I realized about my motivation for
teaching
• What surprised me
• When people ask me why I teach in academic
medicine (nursing/dentistry), what will I say
now?
4. Pratt et al.’s Five Teaching
Perspectives
0 The Transmission Perspective
0 The Developmental Perspective
0 The Apprenticeship Perspective
0 The Nurturing Perspective
0 The Social Reform Perspective
6. More
complicated
than it sounds
We approach
teaching with
biases, intuitions,
hunches, and
habits that frame
what we do
Learners exhibit
bewildering
diversity as well
as readiness for
learning
Skillful teaching is whatever helps students
learn (Stephen Brookfield, 2006).
A learning task is a way to present new
content, inviting engagement, reflection,
and action on that content (Jane Vella,
2001)
7. Skillful teachers adopt a
critically reflective practice
What is critical reflection?
Process by which we research the
assumptions informing our practice
as teachers
… Through our students’ eyes
… Colleagues’ perceptions
… Literature
… Our own autobiography
8. What students value in teachers
Indicators of
credibility: Are you
believable?
Expertise
Experience in the field
being taught
Making the rationale for
classroom decisions
clear
Conviction
Indicators of Authenticity:
Trustworthiness,
openness, honesty
Congruence – words
and actions match
Full disclosure
Responsiveness
Personhood
9. Using Jane Vella’s Learning Tasks
to Develop a POGIL Exercise
Inductive Task
Input Task
Implementation Task
Integration Task
10. Consider your specialty and how it might mesh with
someone else’s to teach new content to learners; organize in
groups 2-3
Decide what content you want to teach in a POGIL exercise
You need a model, framework, or image(s) for exploration
and discovery
Write 2 or 3 content objectives
Write 1 process objective
Develop several questions that will guide learners to
discover what you want them to learn without telling.
Implementation Task
11. How does the act of guiding learners through questions
appeal to you as an instructor?
What benefits do you perceive it will have for the learner?
POGIL exercises have three major areas. How will you create
an application exercise for your POGIL?
Integration Task
12. Upcoming Class Sessions!
Next Week, Sept 22
• Readings in Ambrose text
• Review chapters in Jane Vella’s book
• Check Bb site for posted handouts!
Team-Based Learning with Dr. Steven Bishop,
Sept 29
• Will have readings in TBL book and posted on Bb
Fall Break! No class on October 6
