This workshop will be of particular interest to faculty and graduate teaching assistants preparing a teaching portfolio and who wish to create a statement of their teaching philosophy. All faculty
and GTAs who teach, hold assumptions about what it means to teach. Ask a dozen instructors and you will hear a range of answers that describe guiding, facilitating, telling, showing, planning,
helping, directing and so forth. The answers one gives, tell you something about each person’s “perspective” or philosophy of teaching. Dr. Saunders will introduce Professor Daniel Pratt’s Teaching
Perspectives Inventory. As one of Canada’s leading educators in the field of adult education, Professor Pratt spent years researching teaching perspectives (philosophies) on several continents.
Attendees will have an opportunity to take Professor Pratt’s Teaching Perspectives Inventory and receive a print out of the results. Each perspective will be explored. Faculty and GTAs will come away
from this workshop with a concise statement of their own teaching philosophy. Attendees are encouraged to bring syllabi of courses they teach. Registration required http://oregonstate.edu/ctl.
