Teaching Philosophies
This typically written product contains your teaching statement. It's usually required for the promotion or tenure process.
What is a teaching portfolio?
Connie Hu found that this type of knowledge, which refers to subject matter, was one of the most important qualities of effective teaching.
What is content knowledge
Bloom's framework is used to classify what type of learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity?
What are educational objectives
This movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994, beating Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
What is Forest Gump
This traditional American dessert is often served at Thanksgiving, which rivals sweet potato pie.
What is pumpkin pie
True or False: Educational theory seeks to explain how individuals teach and learn.
True
This author of the paper, Engaged Pedagogy, said that education is healing to the uninformed spirit.
Who is bell hooks
Bloom's Taxonomy is comprised of this many levels
What are 6
This South Korean film became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars
What is Parasite
This American dessert is made by deep-frying dough and topping it with powdered sugar, especially popular at fairs
What are funnel cakes
This theory by Vygotsky examines the role that meaning plays in how a learner constructs understanding and knowing.
What is active learning theory
True or false: bell hooks says that engaged pedagogy devalues student expression.
False
This question, “What are the main parts of a plant?” is an example of what level?
What is remember
This 2003 fantasy epic won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
This dessert from the Southern U.S. is made with bananas, vanilla pudding, and vanilla wafers.
What is banana pudding
This document is the mechanism for communicating your teaching philosophy.
What is a teaching statement
True or false: Female educators in academia tend to be viewed as less competent and accomplished than their male counterparts.
True
This level encourages students to use information in new situations (e.g., solve a math problem using a formula).
What is apply
This woman was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director
Who is Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2010)
A cobbler has a biscuit-like or drop-dough topping, while this dessert has a crumbly topping made from butter, sugar, and oats.
What's a crisp
To do this to your teaching philosophy means to expand it, preventing it from becoming a rote, static process.
What is to activate it.
In addition to being understanding, Hu found that this characteristic was what students cared the most about when it came to effective teachers.
What is approachable
This is the highest level in Bloom’s Taxonomy
What is create
This film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster, won Best Picture and featured the iconic line, “I’m having an old friend for dinner”.
What is Silence of the Lamb
Boston Cream Pie is called a "pie" due to historical naming conventions when cakes and pies were baked in the same pans. It is actually this type of cake filled with pastry cream and topped with chocolate glaze.
What's a sponge cake