Aim 6:

Reflection

Bring together ideas you have been asked to encounter within this Section and relate them to your own personal position, your current perspective on, or your stance towards the choice of teaching methods in your discipline or scholarly field.

Try to come to some interim conclusion, regarding where you stand about the question of how to teach within your field.

And also relate this to how you believe your department colleagues would most probably view the issue.

The goal of this section has been to study the question of the choice, or development, of appropriate teaching methods within a discipline, and the student learning perspective towards methods - what that perspective implies or suggests ought to be the way a scholarly teacher goes about choosing or developing methods.

• Try summarising in your own words - a paragraph or two at most - the gist or essence of what you think are the most important implications of a student learning perspective for the choice or development of teaching method in subjects you actually teach
• Summarise, in a similar way, what you believe is the kind of story or account that most of your colleagues would accept, regarding why the present dominant teaching methods are actually used in your department; that is, what are the principal public justifications or arguments for existing methods.
• Outline the points you would speak to (that is, use concise, point form to identify the issues or arguments you would use) if you were invited to present a half-hour lunch-time teaching seminar to your department on the topic "What should we do about teaching methods in this department?"
• Against what you have written in (iii), mention what you think would be the most predictable responses to your presentation, from different categories of colleagues; this would be your agenda to use in planning to anticipate, then answer, their questions in the discussion after your talk.