My Teaching Mission Statement

While education now has become far more political than it was intended to be with required testing, reading, merit-pay, and required lessons, there is still a great deal of room for teachers to implement their own teaching philosophy into their teachings. From pre-school students to high school students, there are teachers who are taking creative liberties with their lesson plans that enhance their student’s learning experience. Each teacher incorporates their own personal missions statement to create productive and useful lesson plans for the students that allow the students to succeed in the classroom. In the beginning of the semester, we were tasked with creating a mission statement that reflected us as teachers. My mission is to establish not only a connection with my students and their parents but to foster and enhance their willingness and ability to learn.

An effective mission statement is meant to convey what a person, or organization, wants to accomplish in their job, and often their mission statement includes aspects of their teaching philosophy. For my mission statement, I do believe it reflects my teaching philosophy. It shows that I want to not only teach the material so that students do well base on state standards since state testing is now so controversial, but I also want them to be able to form their own opinions and can be successful later in life as well as at the time of