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I think TPI Profile Sheet is helpful for teaching, because, as mentioned in Reflecting on Your TPI Results, these Results reflect the perspective of individual teaching, and can help teachers better define their own position. My B and I Sub-scores Differ by five points in the column of Transmission. I think this result is related to my personal learning experience. Influenced by traditional Chinese education, I subconsciously believe that teachers are the main classroom leaders. However, in this mode, teachers tend to pay too much attention to teaching objectives and thus ignore students’ personal interests and needs, which is not the goal I want to achieve in teaching. In teaching, I want to pay more attention to the needs of students, encourage and support them to go their own way, let them build confidence and self-esteem in the teaching process.
In the traditional teaching process, the teacher’s role is the owner and disseminator of knowledge, while the student is the receiver. Students are often passive in the learning process, and their independent learning ability is weak, lacking the ability to find problems. Flipped classroom transfers the teaching process to after class so that students have enough time to summarize what they have learned and found problems. Teachers can carry out classroom activities according to the common problems and individual problems encountered by students, so as to achieve the purpose of solving doubts in a real sense and realize teaching students in accordance with their aptitude in a real sense. Flipped classroom fundamentally changes the roles of teachers and students in the teaching process. Teachers have changed from the owners and disseminators of knowledge to the guiders of learning methods and processes. Students have changed from passive receivers to active learning subjects who accept knowledge, find problems and try to solve problems.
However, from a technical standpoint, as journalistic Articles mention, the flipped classroom relies on pre-recorded lectures and online events, which means that students and teachers alike need good Internet connections and devices that are accessible. This requires teachers to have a strong level of information technology. The level and quality of the video produced by teachers should be improved. The video should be short and reasonable. All these restrict the development of teaching. Secondly, under the flipped classroom teaching model, students need to use computers and Internet facilities, which is impossible for young groups of students (kindergartens and primary schools), and older groups of students may also face the harassment of bad information. The flipped classroom is a new educational concept, which needs constant practice and improvement.
Best,
Sheng Li
Hi Sheng,
I can see that you were affected by Transmission perspective, rooted from your culture, and you also wanted to shift to Nurturing perspective. I am also in the same way. My TPI is dominantly Nurturing which took me years to evolve.
About flipped classroom, I shared your point that for young children, it is not possible to ask them to watch pre-recorded lectures for class preparation. Thus, flipped classroom is only feasible for older students.
Sincerely,
Kate
Hello Sheng Li,
Very well said, the Flipped classroom changes the role of the teacher and student. The teacher works as a facilitator and guide student to new knowledge. knowledge is further improved with discussions and feedback. It brings the feminist approach to the teaching-learning process. It’s flexible and practical functioning approach makes it easy to inculcate this in the classroom. Learning outcomes can be modified as per the need of the learner. Yes again like most technology-based apps and programs, flipped classroom’s dependency on the internet and tech devices makes it less accessible to the wider population. Another problem with this is that teacher has to make the lesson or lecture interesting and informative, to maintain the interest of the student. That’s why it is beneficial in higher education. Lastly, a new approach to achieve learning objectives.
Best Regards,
Gagan
Hi Sheng,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this! You mention “Influenced by traditional Chinese education, I subconsciously believe that teachers are the main classroom leaders.” and of course for all of us, we are influenced by many things including what we ourselves experienced. Have you found it challenging to consider changes in this regard? Many of us, as you note, subconsciously, are influenced, and sometimes the idea of changing and our reality differ (I know that it has been a gradual shift for me, and took place over a longer period of time).
Joe
Hi, Sheng Li
Thank you for sharing all these meaningful thoughts and ideas around your TPI results. To me, as a student who has also experienced a “traditional Chinese lecturing model”, I believe the flipped classroom is a really good start to achieve the shift from “Transmission” to “Nurturing”. Multimedia is popular these days, and with all the help from technologies, it becomes way easier to achieve this than before.
Hi, Sheng Li
Thanks for sharing
TPI is very helpful for learning or teaching, but there are certain groups of people who are not suitable for it.
Best wishes