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Home >  Reflective Teaching in Higher Education, 2nd Ed > 2. Creating conditions for learning > 7. Engagement > How your personal biography shapes your teaching


  1. 1. Becoming a reflective professional
        1. Identity
        2. Learning
  2.     3. Reflection
  3.     4. Principles

  4. 2. Creating conditions for learning
        5. Contexts
        6. Relationships
        7. Engagement
  5.     8. Spaces

  7. 3. Teaching for learning
  8.     9. Curriculum
        10. Planning
  9.     11. Pedagogy
  10.     12. Communication
  11.     13. Assessment

  13. 4. Reflecting on consequences
        14. Outcomes
        15. Inclusion

  14. 5. Deepening understanding
        16. Expertise
        17. Professionalism

How your personal biography shapes your teaching

Please consider the following questions as a way to reflect on what aspects of your own personal history may, or may not, be relevant to your current engagement with teaching:

  1. Can you recall a particularly positive encounter you had, as a student, with a teacher? What made this so positive? In what ways might this encounter help shape your own engagement as a teacher today?
  2. Can you recall a particularly negative encounter you had, as a student, with a teacher? What made this so negative? In what ways might this encounter help shape your own engagement as a teacher today?
  3. To what extent do you think students today are the same as, or different from, how you were as an undergraduate student? Consider here social, educational, cultural and any other factors.
  4. What are the risks and benefits of using your own personal biography to inform your engagement as a teacher?