My Teaching Philosophy Statement

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My Teaching Philosophy Statement

The teaching profession is one of great stature. The public views this career as very respectable, even little children one dream of one day becoming a teacher. Teachers are special people that have the opportunity to touch and change hundreds of lives over the course of their own. Those wishing to make a difference in the world today will find that teaching is the way to do that. These, along with many others, are the reasons behind my choice to become a teacher.

My philosophical stance regarding education is very eclectic. My views are not a mix of just two or three stances but instead all four. I am very much an idealist in the respect that I believe it is essential for a teacher to know their content. Students know when a teacher is highly educated in the content they are teaching. I believe that teachers will have more respect and class involvement from their students if the students view them as well educated.

My realistic views relate to having classroom management plan that is dictated in the beginning. I believe that the teacher should be seen as the ruler of the classroom. Students should be told up front what is expected from them throughout the course of the year, and explained the purpose for proper behavior and order in the classroom. If these rules are dictated at the very beginning of the year it will be easy to punish those who fail to follow rules.

I am also an existentialist in the since that I feel students should be given some choices, maybe not so much in the rules of the classroom, but in the ways in which they want to learn. Some children learn better in groups, some prefer hands on activities and others like to get material out of a textbook. I believe children should get to choose how they would like to complete certain assignments.

Last I feel I am somewhat a pragmatist.

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