My Teaching Philosophy
I believe that the ultimate purpose of teaching is to enhance
learning. Learning takes place in different situations and contexts. Everyone
is capable of learning, but I think that a student who goes to school and
continues his/her higher education has a special desire deep down to acquire
new knowledge and skills. Every student has his/her own way of learning, some
are auditory learners, others visual, or kinesthetic, or tactile, etc., he/she
can even have the combination of these styles. I think whatever the style is,
by creating a positive classroom environment and using the effective strategies
I can reach every student.
As a teacher I believe that I have a role in
shaping my students’ minds and thereby affecting their characters,
relationships that they build with others, and the role that they can have later
in society. And since I know that
students can sometimes imitate their teachers and take examples from their actions,
words, etc... I must be careful to the way I react with them. I want to show my
students that biology is authentic; it is related to every aspect of their
life. If I explain the material with enthusiasm, and show interest and passion
in what I’m teaching, I’m sure that the students will be also motivated to
learn. I think including feelings to a certain extant adds more authenticity to
the teaching. By feelings I mean, sharing their happiness, when they have
problem discuss it with them and help them in finding solution, and the most
important thing is, in my opinion, to show them respect, because if they see
that their teacher is respecting them, they will build a good motive to respect
the people around them, because I want to foster students who are aware of the
differences found around them and yet have respect to the concept of diversity.
And I think that when I enter the classroom I must be detached from outside
thoughts and feelings that I have and focus on the needs of my students only.
I want to be a teacher, because I love to work with
students, I see a passion in them to acquire new knowledge and skills. I don’t
believe that there are “lazy” students, if the teacher is able to motivate the
students in the subject, every student will have interest in completing
whatever is necessary to achieve the set goals, because I think that whatever
the subject is, it can be explained in an easy or simple way to facilitate more
understanding by the students.
In general I have a passion to guide people through their
problems, or in any other case, and I chose teaching because it’s all about
guidance. I don’t see teaching as a profession where as a teacher I will be the
superior one and everything that I say has to be done by the student. I believe
that teaching is all about guiding the student through a long way where he/she
will build concepts, skills, which will affect the way this student will think
and will build his/her character and will be able to make decisions on his/her
own.
As a conclusion, I want to tell my students that learning
is a process that never ends, and I want to create in them a passion for
learning. And as a teacher, being aware of this fact, I will continue to
improve my teaching through reading articles from accredited professional
journals, using the internet to get familiarized with new strategies that I can
use, and whenever possible, I want to attend workshops and seminars considering
the field of biology education and education as a whole… In addition to assessing
the students for their knowledge and skills, I have to assess my performance, I
have to reflect on each session that I thought, on the effectiveness of the
strategies and the activities that I used, and analyze how the students reacted
to each method and activity used. In addition to the personal reflection that I
will do, I want to have group reflections with other colleagues, biology
teachers or other subject teachers, because I believe that I can benefit also
from their experiences and together we can enhance student learning and
advancement in more fruitful way.
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