Teachers with high scores on Teacher-centredness and low scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | Teachers with low scores on Teacher-centredness and high or intermediate scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | |
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Agency | ‘if I only were a tutor in various courses, so if I had to fill my educational load that way, that would secriously reduce my motivation, I wouldn’t like that. I really… eh… like having an influence on the content or the composition of a course.’ (M-1) | |
Experience with PBL (as student or teacher) | ‘I studied in X, a traditional lecture-based, teacher-centred curriculum, so when I started working in Maastricht, that was completely new for me. And when I started to teach it became clear that I didn’t dare to give much freedom to the students, in the beginning.’(A-5) | |
Personal development | ‘ …because traditionally university teachers are hardly trained in didactics; it is taken for granted that our expertise automatically equips us to teach well‘ (A-6) | ‘In the beginning I was only focused on my slides and ‘hey, how am I doing?’ Do you know what I mean? And now I think, okay, what are the learning goals, what do I want my students to learn? How am I going do it? How can I arrange this in such a way that they are going to engage with the study material? That is what you have to learn as a teacher. (A-2) |
High content expertise | ‘I think - you’re obliged to transmit the knowledge you gathered– uh – during your studies and … your working experience… to pass all that on to … say…younger colleagues. That…that is just an intrinsic…., eh yes, that is part of the job.’ (M-4) | |
Motivation and work engagement | ‘I think - you’re obliged to transmit the knowledge you gathered– uh – during your studies and … your working experience… to pass all that on to … say…younger colleagues. That…that is just an intrinsic…., eh yes, that is part of the job.’ (M-4) | ‘Through the interaction…. That is my ….. as a tutor, ….for example I ask them something… then using their answers I ask them another question, and then you see them think hard, and finally and that is what I also like very much, is to see them come up with the answer themselves.’(A-7) |