My Personal Philosophy Of Teaching

Philosphy of Teaching

The purpose of this paper is to identify/describe and discuss my personal philosophy teaching. As I describe my theory of learning I will talk about experiences that have affected me. As well as identifying areas of pedagogy that have influenced my personal philosophy. I will then describe how my philosophy teaching guides my teaching style.

Personal Experinces

My personal philosophy of teaching has its foundations in my experiences as a student. These experiences as a student have affected my beliefs about teaching and learning. I remember my third grade teacher, Mr Luther to this day, and I feel like he was one of the best teachers I had because not only did he teach the subjects to us but encouraged us to learn on our own. He did this by creating a safe working environment for students to learn. A place where we felt that we, even though we were young could ask questions and formulate ideas. He also main learning fun and active experience. Mr. Luther had done was to bring the math Olympics to our school. Math was never one of my favorite topics, but having to do the math flash cards and problems, then being able to run or skip or go through obstacles to move my team forward, was a great incentive for me.

Pedagogics

Kolb’s Theory of Experiential Learning describes learning as a process, a 4 stage cycle in which learning is grounded in experiences. Learners move through phases of concrete experience, rereflective observation, abstract conceptualization, an active experimentation as they learn new tasks(Nilson, 2010).

Laschinger (1990,) suggests that Kolb’s theory of experiential learning is a important to education of nurses. She suggest that Kolb’s cycle of learning promotes the dev...

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...my teaching philosophy and how they guide my teaching style.

My development as a learner was encouraged by a handful of teachers who were passionate, willing to adapt their teaching styles to my style of learning to help me reach my full potential. Their actions encouraged me to be confident in myself and my ability to learn. My philospy of teaching is that all people have the ability to learn, and by empowering students to learn, Kolb’s and Felder and Silverman’s learning style models have influence my teaching philosophy in that they encourage please add a variety of teaching methods to help students with different learning preferences. Therefore, by recognizing that there are different styles of learning and using different methods to explore topics, students learning is maximized and they are able to recognize their own potential and achieve success.