Importance Of A Pre-Service Teacher

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These values that I have developed through my past experiences, the course and placement as a pre-service teacher (provides an invaluable on field experience that builds my confidence, which I hope to make an impact to my student’s learning.) help make me more become more confident and flexible as a teacher to improve my student’s learning. I hope to be able to become a passionate teacher who motivates and engages students with their learning and cater for the range of different types of learning abilities. I want to promote an environment where students and teachers support, care and learn from one another and for students to be able to think critically and apply what they have learnt at school to real life experiences outside of school, for students to not only gain knowledge but to also learn how to live for the future. I hope that the schools I associate with have a strong sense of a community feel to allow teachers and students to connect and understand the influences around them. Having a good community feel to a school lets students to feel belonged and cared for. I found arguments from Nel Noddings and John Dewey philosophies to support my educational values as a pre-service teacher. Noddings focuses on the ethics of care and happiness in education in which “draws attention to our passions, attitudes, connections, concerns and experienced responsibilities” (Noddings, 1992 p. 27) whereas Dewey focuses on the social interactive processes in education where the school is a social institution (Dewey, 1929 p.19).

Nodding developed an idea of ethical caring in moral education which she has demonstrated and proved how important caring is in relation to education, teachers, peers and families. Educators are encouraged to continu...

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...child’s life play a huge role in their education but if a child can’t socialise with others, what then? Who they associate with and what happens around them, affects their learning. If something were to happen at home, it will be shown in their behaviour at school. If good or bad events happen to a student outside of school, then the child will express certain behaviour while at school. If something were to happen during their breaks that also, will affect the students learning. However this isn’t always the case. During my placement, I had a student who had a lot of troubles at home with family problems. He would act out aggressively, showing a very negative attitude at home but once he enters the classroom, you would never know what he is going through as he is always bright and always willing to learn. School can act as an escape from their problems in which

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