Mid-term long question
Classrooms have cultures. Describe your classroom culture using the seven dimensions of organizational culture. Does the culture constrain your instructor? How? Does it constrain you as a student? How? 15 marks long
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Explanation:
a classroom culture the course instructor is the manager and the rest of students can be considered as sub-ordinates. As the course instructor allots tasks in the form of assignments and provide grades based on those, which can be considered as rewards. The following are the seven dimensions of organizational culture which can also be applied in a classroom:
• Stability: Course instructor consistently tries to increase the knowledge of students by teaching and conducting tests. Thus the culture of the class where the learning is promoted and pedagogy is genuine and creative should be dynamic.
• Aggressiveness: He encourages students to be competitive with one another to perform well in exams.
• Innovation and Risk Taking: There is no serious risk taking in classroom but course instructor encourages students to be innovative.
• Attention to detail: A good analysis and attention to the subject is always encouraged by the course instructor.
• Outcome orientation: A course instructor focuses on the way he teaches so that students could learn as much as possible from a classroom experience.
• People orientation: All the decisions made by course instructor in the classroom are for the well-being of students. A class that is led by a good teacher would be highly people-oriented.
• Team orientation: Course instructor divides students into groups of teams and assigns work, so that they will know how to help each other. By doing this students will have a first-hand experience of how teams in an organization.
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