1. What drives your teaching?

2. The process: Write down the assumptions that drive your teaching and theory of learning Discuss your assumptions and choose the three most important Record those assumptions for all to view Be prepared to share your assumptions in 15 Minutes

3. Assumptions

4. How many of you have reviewed the research on teaching and learning to validate these assumptions? Can you validate these assumptions based on educational research? …there are only two professions that operate on untested assumptions with little or no training: college instructing and parenting. (Cyrs, 1997, 17)