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Biology was my favorite subject in high school and I cannot wait to teach. I love biology because I can
apply what I teach in the classroom to lessons and experiences to our lives outside the classroom. When
they come to my biology class, students will be met with hands-on activities, experiments, and
questioning that develops their understanding of the subject. As a teacher, I will facilitate student learning
and collaboration. To promote collaboration, I will teach students to be respectful of other students’
beliefs and opinions. I will teach respect by modeling respectful behavior and interactions, and sharing
with students their expectations for respect in my classroom. Students will always be treated with respect
from myself and their peers. By teaching to students to respect their peers, students will feel comfortable
asking questions in class, sharing their opinions, and creating discussion in the classroom. There will be a
zero tolerance policy for bullying in my classroom. I will have teach 21st Century skills in my classroom
by incorporating technology, creating discourse, and having students work with different peers in the
class.
5 Belief Statements
Reflection
I want my students to learn to respect others, respect the environment and to respect themselves. By
learning to respect others, students will feel comfortable sharing their opinions about the content we are
learning in class. I want to class to have discussions about the subject especially when students don’t
understand something. I also want students to make connections about the subject on their own and feel
comfortable to share them with the class. I also want students to learn to respect the subject of biology.
The science of life is important when humans have the largest impact of the lives around us. Every action
we do as humans has an outstanding effect on our planet and I want students to learn that their actions
matter. No matter how small, the choices that students make can make a different. I also want to students
to learn that they deserve respect. I will give every student the respect that they deserve and I want them
to learn that they deserve respect. I will believe in my students and I want to teach them to believe in
themselves.
At the beginning of this class, I was not even officially in the science education major. I had never
thought too much about how I would be as a teacher so when I was asked to write my classroom
education philosophy at the beginning of the semester I had no idea what to write about. I have learned an
immeasurable amount about teaching this semester and it lead me to reflect about the kind of teacher I
want to be. First off, I learned that I really love the idea of being a teacher. When I was reviewing my
initial classroom environment philosophy, it was very obvious that I imagined that teaching was going to
be direct instruction to a class of students who were all the same. A major thing I learned through this
semester was that the classroom is going to be diverse. This semester I learned about IEPs, multicultural
education, ELLs, achievement gaps, and tracking students. The ability to share knowledge and get
students excited about learning is what I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. I want to make a
difference in students lives and get to know them as people who are going to grow up to make a
difference.