Teaching Perspectives Inventory Dimensions

Transmission

Effective teaching requires a substantial commitment to the content or subject matter.

Apprenticeship

Effective teaching is a process of socializing students into new behavioral norms and ways of working.

Developmental

Effective teaching must be planned and conducted “from the learner’s point of view”.

Nurturing

Effective teaching assumes that long-term, hard, persistent effort to achieve comes from the heart, not the head.

Social Reform

Effective teaching seeks to change society in substantive ways.

From: Pratt, D. & Collins, J. “Summaries of Five Teaching Perspectives” . Available at: http://teachingperspectives.com/PDF/summaries.pdf