Group items tagged

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), builds on Shulman's idea of PCK, and attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. At the heart of the TPACK framework, is the complex interplay of three primary forms of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK).

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. Bloom found that over 95 % of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the lowest possible level...the recall of information.

In March 1987, the AAHE Bulletin first published "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education." With support from Lilly Endowment, that document was followed by a Seven Principles Faculty Inventory and an Institutional Inventory (Johnson Foundation, 1989) and by a Student Inventory (1990). The Principles, created by Art Chickering and Zelda Gamson with help from higher education colleagues, AAHE, and the Education Commission of the States, with support from the Johnson Foundation, distilled findings from decades of research on the undergraduate experience.

Online Form

Teachers tend to approach each class with a collection of ideas and techniques that, when coordinated, become a teaching style. There are a number of models that characterize different teaching styles. This web site uses the four teaching clusters identified by Tony Grasha. You can link to this teaching styles information, you can take an on-line inventory at this site.

This site offers instructors a starting point for designing websites to support distance education courses.

Grasha's 5 Teaching Styles Anthony Grasha identified the following five teaching styles as description of prevalent aspects of faculty presence in the classroom.