TPI Quiz Results

 1)

From my Profile Sheet, my perspective scores range from 25-50. My most strongly held perspective is Nurturing, while my most lowly held perspective is Social Reform. As well, my highest intention score occurred within my most dominant perspective. 

I would agree that the perspectives being evaluated are generally my perspectives on teaching, however certain ones I will definitely think more about how to bring them into my practice. Based on my starting points on my personal philosophy, I would like to develop my approaches to teaching to including social reform and working to have students be able to apply their knowledge to real life settings and scenarios. 

2)

I was surprised my most dominant result was Nurturing, although it was not the most dominant by much. In terms of my prior work as a Recreation Leader with kids in age ranging from 3-18, I have always had a nurturing side, however I wouldn’t consider that to be my most dominant perspective in terms of my job. That being said, the nurturing aspect of myself as a teacher I do find really important and put a lot of focus into while learning to teach, as I believe this can help create a safe and welcoming classroom environment where students want to learn and learn to believe in themselves.

3)

While taking this quiz, I became more unsure of my teaching practice in terms of the perspective of Social Reform. I am not surprised by my total score for the Social Reform perspective given my answers on the quiz, however taking this quiz raised the question for me of how to include a greater focus on social reform in a math classroom. I can easily think of ways to include the topic and ideas of social reform in other subject areas, potentially those focused more around humanities, but I am unsure as to how I would focus largely on this in a math classroom. I can see its place in certain units such as finance or economics, but I am curious to see how I could incorporate ideas of social reform into other units as well.