Applying and developing patterns in teaching

A community of teachers and researchers within computer science has adopted the idea of patterns and developed a set of pedagogical patterns. These patterns capture best practices in teaching. From our research and teaching practice we have observed that pedagogical patterns are useful, but there is a need for concepts and tools to justify and analyze the patterns. In every teaching community there exists a set of values characterizing what good teaching is about. Patterns may be measured by stating which values they imply and to what degree. Considering them as value-based patterns in teaching enriches the notion of pedagogical patterns. Inspired by conditions for learning we identify three values in teaching in the field of engineering-related educations. Further we present a value-based template for guidelines in teaching, causing a better understanding of the patterns and help teachers to develop, apply and communicate patterns.