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Teaching Philosophy

I believe there are many reasons in which I want to become a teacher. I want to be a life
changing teacher that helps shape and form the lives of my students. Teach them life skills that
they will use in the future to become successful and to live healthy productive professional lives.
I would like to become one of those teachers that students remember as being someone that
believed in them while educating them and not the one that just educated them, and handed them
papers, and assignments. I want my students to know that someone believes in them when they
might not even believe in themselves. I do not just want to be an educator, but a life changing
educator. One that pushes my students to meet high expectations and then to exceed beyond
them.
I believe classroom management is extremely important to have with in the classroom.
Otherwise we would have no structure at all within our classroom and without that learning
would be impossible for students. Teacher’s need to be able to have control of their classroom.
Without classroom management their would be no rules in the classroom. So students could run
all over, jump on desks, color on walls. A good classroom management is built strong and has
definite rules such as no running in classroom, no jumping on desk, no coloring on the walls.
Rules are only as good as the teacher who enforces them though. I believe a good classroom
managements are the foundation of the room it’s something we can build on to create the best
possible environment for our students. While rules are important we should also remember to
have a positive environment for our students to come into everyday. One that make our students
feel both comfortable and safe.
Communication to also a key point in teaching and having a successful room. We must
open the communication line very early with students families especially with the younger
students. Parents need to know what is going on in the lives of their children. The first contact
should not be the first time the student is in trouble. It should be when school is started or before.
Let the parents know that they are welcome in the room and help them feel comfortable. After all
they are entrusting you with their little miracle each and everyday. We should be very aware that
we do not know everything about the student that’s why communication is key. We need to build
strong relationships with the parents and with the students themselves. We should let the parents
know they have a voice in their students education and that we do not try to over shadow their
voices, because who knows more about their student then they do. We should let the parents of
our students take their place beside us as educators and not try to hold all the power ourselves.
We need to let the parents of our students have a voice, and then be willing to listen and learn
from their knowledge. Then instead of disregarding it, we should consider that knowledge along
with our own knowledge as educators and use it to grow. If we will take the time to give real
heartfelt care, commitment, time to listen and learn, and give space for our parents to have a
voice and to share their own knowledge; we can build stronger schools, families, and then
eventually even communities.
Assessments can help us as educators to set instructional goals. It helps by making you
ask yourself if there is a better way to teach students and if they are learning everything that they
are supposed to be learning to be successful. If you know the answers to these questions then you
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can better set instructional goals that can be accomplished within our classroom. Assessments are
also important, because they help hold educators responsible for their teaching. We should take
assessments as a sign or more like a progress report for yourself to help you be more efficient in
your classroom, be a learner as well as a teacher, learn from your students. We need to
understand that not all students will do well on every kind of assessments, so we need to have
various different types of assessments for our students.
In conclusion teaching is a lot like a puzzle we do not know the pieces we will end up
with and they will be constantly changing. We have to work with what we are given and then
build upon that. Educators need to set high expectations for students then help their students rise
to those expectations. Instead of setting low expectations and not have any room for growth at
all. I believe teaching is a content cycle of give and take. We need to give the students what they
need to learn while also being willing to learn from them at the same time, it will help improve
our teaching as well as make us stronger educators.