My Educational Philosophy
I believe all students deserve an equal opportunity to become lifelong learners. It is my responsibility as a teacher to provide the environment necessary to nurture students’ desire to learn and grow. I want to share my love for learning with my students and provide them with the skills needed to be successful in life.
Creating a positive and safe environment is imperative for building a love for learning. Mutual respect, encouragement, and tolerance are three ideas that I value and that take a forefront in my educational philosophy. Students need to respect themselves, their peers, and their teachers in order to be successful and have the ability to work with others. Each member of the classroom needs to be treated as a valuable member of the team. Respect is shown through listening and valuing opinion, giving honest and valuable feedback, and treating others fairly, and using materials appropriately. Encouragement is essential for success in learning, and students need to know that the teacher is there to support them and their educational goals. By showing encouragement to my students, I would expect them to show this same encouragement to their peers, and recognize that not every learner is on the same academic course. Each person is an individual and learns at a different pace, and I expect my students to support the individual learning styles of peers.
I want each student to reach their full potential and strive to structure my lessons and classroom instruction to suit the needs of each individual. Children have a varied range of abilities and skills. As their teacher, I must modify and adapt my lesson plans and instruction to maximize the learning potential of all my students. An understanding of best practices, along with constant collaboration with colleagues helps me provide the most effective learning environment possible to my students. Reaching out to families provides a home to school connection and provides me with valuable information about my students, allowing me to better support them.
In this fast-paced, ever changing world in which we live, I want to ensure my students have the skills necessary to compete. Integrated in my lessons will be opportunities for students to work cooperatively and collaboratively. They will need to think creatively and not be afraid to fail, but instead look for other ways to improve on what they are trying to accomplish. I will train them to be critical thinkers in all aspects of their life and the prove them the skills to communicate effectively with others. I also hope to build good character and citizenship along the way - embedding in them the ideal that by working together with people amazing things can be accomplished.
Finally, I hope to inspire my students to reach for the stars. Not to let failures get them down, but to embrace them as opportunities to learn. I want to show them a world of opportunities in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. These are fields that are excellent opportunities in their future and I want my students to know they are capable of being successful in any of them. Ultimately, I want my students to realize that their future is for the taking, they just need to reach out and grab it.
Creating a positive and safe environment is imperative for building a love for learning. Mutual respect, encouragement, and tolerance are three ideas that I value and that take a forefront in my educational philosophy. Students need to respect themselves, their peers, and their teachers in order to be successful and have the ability to work with others. Each member of the classroom needs to be treated as a valuable member of the team. Respect is shown through listening and valuing opinion, giving honest and valuable feedback, and treating others fairly, and using materials appropriately. Encouragement is essential for success in learning, and students need to know that the teacher is there to support them and their educational goals. By showing encouragement to my students, I would expect them to show this same encouragement to their peers, and recognize that not every learner is on the same academic course. Each person is an individual and learns at a different pace, and I expect my students to support the individual learning styles of peers.
I want each student to reach their full potential and strive to structure my lessons and classroom instruction to suit the needs of each individual. Children have a varied range of abilities and skills. As their teacher, I must modify and adapt my lesson plans and instruction to maximize the learning potential of all my students. An understanding of best practices, along with constant collaboration with colleagues helps me provide the most effective learning environment possible to my students. Reaching out to families provides a home to school connection and provides me with valuable information about my students, allowing me to better support them.
In this fast-paced, ever changing world in which we live, I want to ensure my students have the skills necessary to compete. Integrated in my lessons will be opportunities for students to work cooperatively and collaboratively. They will need to think creatively and not be afraid to fail, but instead look for other ways to improve on what they are trying to accomplish. I will train them to be critical thinkers in all aspects of their life and the prove them the skills to communicate effectively with others. I also hope to build good character and citizenship along the way - embedding in them the ideal that by working together with people amazing things can be accomplished.
Finally, I hope to inspire my students to reach for the stars. Not to let failures get them down, but to embrace them as opportunities to learn. I want to show them a world of opportunities in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. These are fields that are excellent opportunities in their future and I want my students to know they are capable of being successful in any of them. Ultimately, I want my students to realize that their future is for the taking, they just need to reach out and grab it.