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My Classroom Philosophy
I want to create a safe environment for high school students where equity is not
just an idea, but an atmosphere that all students are comfortable to learn in. Respect is
the most fundamental rule I will and want to have in my future classroom. When
offensive behaviors happen, I will try to think in the students’ perspectives and address
the issues with good communication for them to relate and truly understand my point
instead of giving them negative feedback that push them away from learning or even
lose hope in improving. I will focus on both academic and student development as
individuals by creating team collaborative activities and problems that require creative
in the future. I will give positive feedback for students who tried hard and put good
efforts in their work even if the results of their hard work aren’t the greatest. It is
important and rewardful when students are motivated to do work with good attitudes. It
is difficult to stay positive when materials get challenging and constantly getting a heavy
load of work in high school. I will help the students that seem to be falling behind or
need extra support by providing opportunities that help them make up for what they had
missed in class. helps depending on each student for those who try hard but aren’t
doing as well as they wish to. Difficult situations happen to everyone, and there are
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many factors that could discourage students from keep on trying their hardest. But the
tricky fact is that the time when things seem the most hopeless is also the time when
one needs to try their hardest for things to turn out better, it is just not easy to move on
without enough support, therefore I want to be the support for students when they
need..
I believe that children have greater math potential than what they think they have.
concepts that they have learned instead of making them memorize the formulas and
giving out quizzes to measure their understanding. I believe that students are able to do
much more than scoring high on tests. Human brains are meant to be trained to always
get better and not to be measured all the time. With the right support and enough time
spent on learning, it is possible for anyone to become a professional in an area that one
I believe that it is important for children to understand that there are different
perspectives in everything.
Conflicts usually happen when people value things or ideas differently. Often
time, if both parties could put themselves in each others’ shoes and think in another
person’s perspective, a lot of arguments would have been avoided or solved quickly. I
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want to show my future students the importance of being considerate even when they
I want to help children learn how to make the right decisions as well as to accept
the wrong decision they have made. Students learn a lot of academic knowledge from
school, but there are many things that school materials cannot teach students, such as
real life moments when immediate decisions need to be made, and situations when one
is asked to understand without enough convincing facts. I want to try my best to inform
my students about the unknown in life by telling them different stories of other people’s
life to increase their knowledge about life experiences so when they are in similar
I believe that all students are important individuals and everyone sees the need to
It is easy to feel lost as students grow in high school because high school is a
transition in children’s lives when they are starting to enter adulthood. When life gets a
lot more complex all of a sudden students could forget that keeping themselves happy
is still the way to make life better. Being a teacher gives me the opportunity to tell
students that having strong belief in their own opinion matters more than the opinions
they may receive from the outside world. I want my future students to suffer less
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mentally so that they would have the motivation to pass on the passion in life and make
the world a better place with what they learned from school and be able to spread the
Homework will be assigned every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (There may
be exceptional accommodation on days with unexpected conditional weathers and
holidays.). There are Quizzes every Thursday. I expect students to turn in homework on
time every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday before school lets out. Students are
welcomed to come to my classroom with homework or classwork questions during lunch
time, and my planning periods. If you or your child/children have questions at home, you
can contact me via my email: lhlin@ncsu.edu
Every student have five late homework passes. I will not accept late homework
after the fifth late homework. I expect students to inform me ahead of time if they had
emergency inconvenience that may hold them up from completing their assignments so
that alternative makeup work can be planned. My classroom is opened for free tutoring
every Wednesday after school from 4:00-6:00.
I believe that it is important for your child/children to know that you care about
their academic performances. If you noticed your child/children struggling with my class,
please encourage them to come to me for help. I keep all the homework assignments,
worksheets pdfs and each of the assigned & due dates on my website as well as the
dates of all the quizzes and tests for you and your child/children to stay on track. Please
don’t hesitate to contact me if there is anything you want to talk or ask about.
Sincerely,