My Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy is that I believe that every student has the ability to learn at their highest potential and it is my job as the teacher to find ways to help the students get there. 

   1. This philosophy I think comes from me always wanting to help others and to make sure that I can do whatever I can to make sure no one fails.  I have always found myself to be personable to the people around me, not to just my friends and family, but to my teachers and peers in school.  I grew up being the oldest of four and I think that has a lot to do with the way I think about teaching because I felt this responsibility all the time of being this role model and I want that to reflect into my teaching.  This is a teaching philosophy written for an elementary school environment.

2.      I think when students learn they become more confident in the classroom.  Learning something new is always exciting and I think children who are confident in saying an answer or going back home and telling the people they live with what they had just learned only helps them learn more.  Assumptions that I make about learning is that every student in the classroom is interested or understands the information fully, when sometimes they do not.  My experience is that I have witnessed everyone that I went to school with since elementary school has made it to college, and all of them had a different way of learning.

3.      I think my role as a future teacher is to be a mentor in the learning process for students.  The students in a classroom look up to the teacher and it the job of the teacher to model the correct behaviors, show different ways of learning, and to be that role model for them.  I think the roles of the students in this case are to be a follower and a leader.  If they are both of those then their peers can see that that is the appropriate way to learn or to do things.  To establish these roles they have to be modeled from day one because otherwise the students will not know what is expected of them every day.

4.      Goals that I have for my students is to number one always try your best because that will overlap with other goals like wanting them to be polite to their peers, always be encouraging and then the end goal they will succeed.

5.      Technology can have a huge impact on the way students learn in the classroom because it opens up a different way to see things to them.  I love the idea of a smartboard because it gives students that hands on experience instead of just reading information out of a textbook.  The role of technology I think should be determined by the teacher in the classroom because the teacher is the one who knows what works well for the students and the teacher can decide when technology is appropriate.