Title: Resources
Course: FLO MicroCourse: Write your teaching philosophy statement OER > Section: 1b. FIND YOUR 'WHY?'

A. FOR GRIDS 1 & 2

Goals for Students (left column; both grids)
• Angelo, Thomas A. and Cross, K. Patricia (1993). Teaching Goals Inventory. Reprinted from Classroom Assessment Techniques. Retrieved on 20 Jan. 2016 from http://fm.iowa.uiowa.edu/fmi/xsl/tgi/data_entry.xsl?-db=tgi_data&-lay=Layout01&-view  [Note: I have omitted Grasha’s 6th ‘goal’ – providing a role model – because I don’t feel it’s truly a goal for the students.]

Teaching Styles categories (1. Teaching Styles x Goals for Students; top row)
• Grasha, Anthony. (Fall, 1994). A Matter of Style: The teacher as expert, formal authority, personal model, facilitator, and delegator. From College Teaching, Vo. 42, No. 4, pp. 142-49. Retrieved 20 Jan. 2016 from http://www.montana.edu/gradschool/documents/A-Matter-of-STyle-Grashab.pdf . Quotations in the table are from p. 143.

Teaching Perspectives categories (2. Teaching Perspectives x Goals for Students; top row)
• Pratt, Daniel D. and Collins, John B. (2001-14). Teaching Perspectives Inventory. Retrieved 20 Jan. 2016 from http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi/

B. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Discovery Education webinar for a deeper dive into 'WHY' (begins just after the 9:30 mark) found at https://vimeo.com/271712528

This blogger suggests working from “generative writing to clarifying and naming essential messages or statements about knowing, learning, and thinking”.
- (2012, TILT) Learning and teaching philosophy. https://uminntilt.com/2012/09/03/learning-and-teaching-philosophy-got-one-you-openly-share-with-your-students/

“When students know their ‘why’ they are empowered to make big life choices. … If you are very clear about your ‘why’ … it … gives you the courage … to fight through when sometimes it can be very easy to give up. This is because you’re seeing the bigger picture.”
- M. Hassam (2017, eLearning Industry). Why we should apply the golde circle model to e-learning.  https://elearningindustry.com/golden-circle-model-elearning-apply

For the instructional designers in the group, this writer's advice is to begin by determining the ‘WHYs’ of clients or colleagues and their learners. He suggests asking 3 questions: “Why do you want to design this course? What is the goal of this course? Who is the learner?”
- (2017, IB Community Blog). Do you know why you decided to become a teacher?  http://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2017/03/23/do-you-know-why-you-decided-to-become-a-teacher/