My Personal Philosophy Of My Scholastic Career

My journey as a reader started even before I entered school, as my parents gave me books to read in the days before the inception of pre-school. My love for sports helped to develop my reading skills, as I would, with great anticipation, wait for the paperboy to deliver the daily news, so I would be able to devour all the information within the sports pages. Spurred by my passion for sports, I would go to the library and try to muster as many sports magazines as allotted, and garner as much information as I could about my heroes in the athletic world. As I become older, this led to my curiosity about the history of the sports legends that I followed and I wanted to garner more information, and began to read any biography about sports that I could attain.

Bright pink book bag, yellow sundress with a watermelon print, clean white tennis shoes, and blonde hair tied back into two little pigtails. That was the first day of the journey that would bring me to where I am now, that was my first day of kindergarten. I do not remember most of what went on during my kindergarten year, most of my memory of that year comes from pictures and what my family tells me happened. It was the beginning of my next nine years at Immaculate Conception School. I had a little class of ten and my teacher’s name was Mrs. Price. One story that has been told to me several times about little kindergarten me is how for at least a month, every day after I was picked up from school my mother would ask me how my day was and every time without fail I would tell her, “it was the best day ever!”

Education is one of the most important things we learn in our lives. As a future educator my personal philosophy is to instill the values of cooperation, fairness and justice into the hearts of our students. Students need guidance and support in many areas of their life. A teacher can make a drastic difference in a child’s life. It is important to teach our future innovators to think critically, help them to see their worth, help the student to engage in the classroom and outside of the classroom. Letting a student have a voice in what they enjoy and what class rules should be can result in a positive learning experience. Creating teacher-student relationships and supporting them in play, passion, and helping them find their purpose will help support them through their failures which are positive learning experiences. Progressivism is a philosophy that supports this type of learning. Teaching academics with a progressivism outlook, it can help students with their outlook on the democratic society. Students can learn how to create their voice, what they believe, and increase their knowledge to achieve their goal along with teacher support.

My high school career taught me very important lessons in how to succeed in my academics and as a student. I have always been that type of student that

I believe each student deserves the right to feel safe and comfortable mentally, physically, and emotionally in the school environment; especially in my own classroom.

This paper is my personal educational philosophy statement. It represents my ideas and values about teaching and learning; it reveals my personal teaching beliefs and their relation to the five major established educational philosophies; it shows my role and responsibilities in educational process. I place great significance on personal style of instruction and its influence on curriculum implementation. The paper also highlights my career aspiration and orientation.

During our time here at the school, we were taught a variety of different things to help us in our journey through life. Through cadets, we were taught discipline, and how to lead. Through our leadership classes we were shown the harsh reality of the real world, we heard a variety of different stories from people who had experienced the worst life has to offer. We were exposed to some of the injustices in this world, such as true stories like Rabbit Proof Fence, and The Kite Runner. We also

The first and foremost lessons taught in my life began at home. My upbringing was, at times, unconventional and my family was, in a sense, not ideal to the standards of society. My mom was a single parent, becoming both the breadwinner, as well as, the caregiver. She came to this country on a student visa, and was able obtain an associate’s degree. Unfortunately, because she did not hold a higher degree, it was very hard, and sometimes impossible to find an adequate job. Yet, she made sure my siblings and I had decent schooling and reminded us constantly the importance of receiving an education.

of lessons. Several of these lessons will influence my academic work and help me to achieve my

My academic experience prior to college has been an exciting event through my life. During my schooling before college I learned about very important skills. The information I learned from my teachers helped me gain an understanding of the different techniques I needed to succeed in the real world. School also helped me develop better social skills which helped me become a better person. As a student in school I had many successful experiences, and challenges. These experiences and challenges that I faced helped me grow as a person. As a student school helped me improve my life in many aspects.

When I was a kid, school for me was waking up early in the morning. I also have to study a lot in school, then after school I have to do homework. I remember my first day at school. My mom and dad, both were so happy and prepared but I was so nervous and cheerless. I didn’t like to wake up early in the morning for school , but as time flew by I started loving school which made me wake up with energy instead of tiredness. I began to enjoy the school as I made new friends and I got to know how it is like when you meet people out of your neighborhood. With my friends I had lunch together and study together. I started to understand what the purpose of the education system. Based on what I understood I think the purpose of education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn to be on their own. In this journey of education I had a lot of positive and few negative experiences,but the negative experiences also helped me growing. Positive experiences are my teachers helping me improve, and I improved more when I moved to the United States.

A key moment that impacted my educational experience as a student was my freshman year in my English Pre-AP class. My teacher at that time was Ms. Wiseman; I would list her as one of my top ten teachers of my educational career. Ms. Wiseman made such an impact on my life because she cared. When you walked into her classroom, you could feel the love. She always had a kind word for each student, she was patient, she always incorporated her humor to keep the lesson plan interesting, and the students could see that she really enjoyed her job. My freshman year was also an adjustment time for me since I had just moved to Texas and had no friends going into high school. Ms. Wiseman could see that I was having issues with fitting in and adjusting to AP classes; she decided that she was going to take me under her wing and mentor me. Her classroom became a sanctuary for me before and after school when I was not doing athletics, she became a tutor to me when I was having difficulties in her class and other classes, and she became a counselor to me when I had a problem with other classmates. I looked at Ms. Wiseman as a second mother to me and to this date anytime I go back home, I go by and visit her. I believe that I would have been a mediocre student if not for her, just going through the motions until I graduated. Ms. Wiseman is the type of teacher that I have aspirations to be.

What is my educational philosophy? After reading about so many different philosophers in education this semester, I have come to agree and disagree with a lot of different ideas. If I had to only pick one philosopher and their ideas I wouldn’t be able to. I don’t really have any fresh or original ideas on education. I would have to say my philosophy is a mixture between all the different philosophers and things I have learned this semester in class and things that were self-taught.

Throughout my education, I had so many challenges I had to overcome. Dealing with school, personal life, and sports. Dealing with all of these problems has shaped me up as a person. I know now how to work for what I want, nothing is handed to me in life. That is something everyone needs to know, and now I know.

The learning experience should be that of a collective nature where students are able to indiscriminately relate to the information, re-teach the information and have a balanced incorporation of all the learning centers in society; including the home and the church. The goal of this incorporation is to create a balanced learning environment that facilitates holistic development in the young mind. As professionals entrusted with the shaping of young minds, teachers must facilitate learning and personal, spiritual, ethical and academic development. My philosophy for education is a multi-part philosophy that encapsulates the idea of holistic and inclusive learning. The philosophy caters for the overall shaping and development of the young mind and includes aspects of balanced training, incorporated teachings and it generally focuses on training students to become teachers.