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Table 5 Personal characteristics - quotations

From: Teachers’ conceptions of learning and teaching in student-centred medical curricula: the impact of context and personal characteristics

 

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’

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)

  1. These quotations from the interviews indicate the association between teachers’ conceptions of learning and teaching and personal teacher characteristics
  2. (Coding of respondents: M or A indicates medical school in Maastricht or VUmc Amsterdam; 1 to 7 indicates the number in the respective medical school.)