Essay On My Teaching Style

My philosophy of my teaching and learning style is more a mixture of both student-centered and teacher centered. I believe that students learn best when they are working in groups. In the student-centered teaching approach, it puts responsibility on both the student and the teacher. I would have center activities to facilitate student learning. I have more of a facilitator teaching style. According to the University of South Carolina defines a facilitator teaching style as, “This type of teacher will often try to design learning situations and activities that require student processing and application of course content in creative and original ways.” ("Teaching Styles"). I think teacher-centered style has benefits too because it can help with

Collaborating with other educators can give us an insight on how to teach something where everyone understands. Also, working with other educators you can plan unit plans together and provide instruction together to teach to your class. The educator may have some resources that you do not have that you could use for your classroom. They may give you more instructional strategies to use. This is beneficial to your class, because it gives them more instructional materials so they can learn. It also gives you different ways to teach the material. Professional development helps teachers grow and when teachers grow students grow and develop too. At professional development teachers get to learn new skills and new resources to use in the classroom. Teachers can learn new skills to use in the classroom like teaching practices, different ways to assess, and classroom management. If we learn from these professional developments, we can implement them into our classroom and have our classrooms be effective. My philosophy of teaching is a hybrid of both student-centered and teacher-centered. I believe that both teaching styles will help the students of all the different learning styles. We as teachers need to have a certain style of philosophy as a teacher to help our students succeed in