Content

Motivational beliefs

Instruction

Developmental Perspective

The primary goal of education or training is to develop increasingly complex and sophisticated ways of reasoning and problem solving within a content area or field of practice.(Pratt, D. D. 2002)

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Content•The assumption behind this strategy is that learning brings about one of two kinds of change inside the brain: •First, when a new experience fits with what someone already knows, it builds a stronger and more elaborate pathway to that knowledge (Pratt, D. D. 2002).•Second, if a new experience or new content doesn’t fit the learner’s current way of knowing, s/he must either change the old way of knowing or reject the new knowledge or experience (Pratt, D. D. 2002).

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InstructionTo be effective teaching in this perspective it is important to plan and conduct material from the learners point of view.

Engaging students requires the use of challenging questions to help learners move from simple to complex forms of thinking.

Provide meaningful examples.

Developmental teachers adapt their knowledge to learners 'ways of understanding (Pratt, D. D. 2002)

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Motivational Beliefs1) Make sure to focus on the development of the individual.2) Show students that you take an interest in them.3) Try to encourage the development of self-confidence, and self-direction in students who need these qualities.4) Teachers must use their knowledge and expertise in ways that do not undermine the goal of helping learners construct their own forms of understanding (Pratt, D. D. 2002).5) Teachers view students as active participants in the process of acquiring knowledge.

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Examples of Developmental PerspectivesChoosing good questionsand providing adequate

time for learners to answerthem themselves;

Creatingassessments that measure

complex reasoning

Teacher's Perspective and Style (choices) defines the learner's

experience (Mahan, J. 2012)

Mahon, J. D. (2012) Understanding How Your Teaching Perspective Influences Your Work, retrieved from:

medicine.osu.edu/.../20120815TeachingPerspectives.pdf

Pratt, D. D. (2002).Good teaching: one size fits all? In J. Ross Gordon (Ed.), An up date on teaching theory. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Pratt, D. D., Collins, J. B., & Jarvis Selinger, S. (2001). Development and use of the teaching perspectives inventory (TPI). Presented at the American Association of Educational Researchers. Available online at

http://www.one45.com/teachingperspectives/PDF/development1.pdf

Pratt, D. D., & Associates (1998). Five perspectives on teaching in adult and higher education. Malabar, FL: Krieger

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