Teaching Strategies: The Teaching Philosophy/Teaching Statement
What?! It was my first reaction when I had to work on this new concept. My first encounter creating a teaching philosophy was in my ED560 Diversity class. When I started writing it, I felt that I became more connected and more serious in my beliefs about education. Then, with a lot of surprise, I heard that it works much better when you offer to your administrator your teaching philosophy at the beginning of the year. I am very happy to have started this.
When I started reading this article, I began realizing how important it is to have a statement or philosophy. That seems to be becoming a common expected part of academic life. Faculties are increasingly developing teaching statements as they approach tenure to help the promotion of their particular views of their practical teaching. Consequently, a lot instructors at all levels find that writing their statement helps them develop, as teachers, nice personal teaching environments where students can identify.
I looked trough some other links that this site offered like Rackham-CRLT May Seminar on Preparing Future Faculty, which offers overviews and suggestions for getting started, as well as examples of statements. Also, this site contains a library of teaching philosophies. Wow! This is an excellent source to help us to create our teaching portfolio. I opened this link which provided several very practical samples of Philosophy teaching statements and general formatting suggestions. After that I create my Teaching pre-teaching philosophy. I still working on it and once it get done I would share it with you!
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It is not easy to achieve what we want. Frustration sometimes comes to my mind, and tends to convince me to quit. But, as my teachers told me, I need to embrace my dreams and make a tangible true attempt to approach and defeat any obstacle that I would face. If I think that I can do it, I can do it because my mind is my real self and once I get what I have worked on, an enormous satisfaction will come, letting me give thanks to all my teachers who let me project myself. Then, I will never shut my mind off of dreaming and never give up my dreams. I know I am going to make it no mater how much time and effort it will take me.
Teaching Philosophy
Becoming a teacher, I would want to be a bridge between cultures, helping communities to be part of the whole integrated society. I want to share values and common sense. I want to feel part of this change. I want to learn and be part of breaking false misconceptions. I want to make a difference by inspiring others to keep following the heartbeat of their dreams. As my best teachers taught me, I want to teach that, with a lot of patience and love, we can make all of our earthly goals reachable if we think that we can do anything.
Although some times I may even hesitate, wondering if I am the right person to teach others, and whether it is really worth it, I have confidence and I know I will make it if I keep trying, and I can teach others by my example.
My enormous desire to help the youth has let me know more about my own self and the role that I personally play in the community. I believe in multiculturalism, and being part of the creation of a balanced world. Nevertheless, we need to keep working to promote a nice social environment. Even if I feel like I am falling, I will look for new educational experiences to keep me motivated to learn and to share with others the new innovations and motivations to keep us in an interactive social vanguard.
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