Teaching Philosophy

However, within the teaching role, there must be a clear boundary regarding ‘the relationship’. You are the leader, the one with the knowledge of the subject matter. Therefore, you should be ready to teach all students, and become involved in their ‘study life’ whilst maintaining and appropriate distance from their ‘out of study life’.

However, some people may argue that students cannot have a voice in their learning because they do not have the professional training as that of a teacher. In order to facilitate learning, there must be some amount of preconceived knowledge to work with. Children enter a classroom without the knowledge and teachers are meant to “teach” them new knowledge using strict curriculum rather than merely “facilitate” what is not there. Therefore, the teacher is the leader of the classroom and tells us how to think and what to think about. However, despite this criticism, I believe that teaching should be collaborative with students because, in the end, learning is about the student and not the teacher.

I see students as the next generations’ heroes in so many fields. In my vision, I have to inspire students and prepare them with confidence, knowledge, experience and skills. Which means I encourage, communicate, guide, teach, and assess students in order to enrich their infrastructures.

By joining the Teacher Cadet Program and shadowing a teacher I will acquire various methods and skills I can later apply in my future in the teaching field. The major skill I am eager to learn is how to mold lesson plans to the needs of the classroom. I

First, building a bond with my mentor teacher will give me insight on why methods I am applying work or fail. His/her expertise will teach me to make corrections and implement different teaching strategies with effectiveness. His or her relationship with their students will build my understanding of what does or does not work in the ways of classroom management. With

Beginning with anticipation during their student teaching, new teachers build excitement and possible idealizations of what their first classroom will be like (Moir). This is followed by a sharp drop off in morale and outlook after the first month of school as “ …. [they] are bombarded with a variety of problems and situations they had not anticipated.” (Moir) Rapidly moving into disillusionment, the new teacher becomes disenchanted and faces exhausting time commitments, placing incredible stresses on new themselves and their families (Moir). During this critical period, trainers and mentors are an invaluable source of comfort and guidance for the new teacher (Katz). Vance makes the assertion that “Mentoring has a relational and reciprocal nature to it; teachers take an interest in each other as human beings and support each other's

Educators need to think outside the box and support learners. Be the kind of teacher who is driven to

needs are met and they feel as if they are respected by the teacher. Mutual respect is once again

Education, as well as children, has always been very important to me. My favorite game to play growing up was always “school”. I would recruit my stuffed animals and dolls to be my “students”. Every evening when I got home from school I would spend countless hours making lesson plans, tests, and grading papers for my “students”. Now that I’m all grown up and taking the necessary steps to become an educator, I’m still as excited and enthusiastic about teaching as I was when I was a little girl.

As a teacher, I believe that I play a crucial role in the success of every learning process. To guarantee that learning will take place, I make sure to create a learning environment that is relevant to the students’ background. Throughout my teaching experience, I learned how to love my students,

My biggest hope as an educator is to share my love for teaching with my students along the way of learning from them. In our competitive society it is crucial for students to not only receive a meaningful education, but to work with someone who is sensitive to their individual needs. I will always strive to be the best educator that I can be since along my education years I have encountered many teachers that weren’t so thrilled about being educators. There are three elements that I believe are conducive to establishing an exciting and learning environment, they are, a caring but guide full teacher, allowing the child's curiosity to direct his/her learning, and promoting respect for one another.

My family immigrated to the United States from Egypt in 1976 when I was three years old. Growing up as a Muslim, I have always considered myself more of a Muslim-American than an Egyptian-American. Even though the majority of Egyptians are Muslim, not all cultural practices necessarily adhere to Islam. Therefore, as I am very familiar with Egyptian culture, my family’s values and beliefs were mainly shaped by religion more than they were by culture.

During the time which teachers and mentor teachers meet to develop the action plan of the teacher, they will be using the data collected from observations, test scores and quarterly grades to help determine the areas of strength and weakness. The administration team and mentor teachers make a valid attempt to visit every classroom at least once every 2 weeks. When an administration enters the classroom they are looking at the interactions between the educator and the student, the amount of questions and level of questions being asked to the students and finally the rigor of the lesson. These three areas are the most important to the success of the class. The action plans that are developed between the mentor teachers and the teachers are primarily focused on these observations. After the action is developed, the observers will be looking for progression in those problems areas that were identified. The action plan also has areas based on the quarterly grades and test scores of the students on the educators classes. The action plan of the educator will also have areas of how to improve the content retention of the students in the classes. Reviewing the grades and test scores of the students and coming up with ideas on how to advance the students

A friendship with wisdom, philosophy, is something that gets tossed around quite often in the education department. Myself and aspiring future teachers often are asked a very simple worded question. What is your teaching philosophy? Now, I’ve been crafting that philosophy as it matures from a seed to a blossoming cherry tree, but what really is the importance of philosophy? It must have great importance if its required for graduation, with education majors receiving an extra dosage of philosophy in order to complete their education degrees, but why is that? I’ll be honest that I’ve often scorned at philosophy without having a solid reason, so having a chance to take the class could change my opinion about the subject. Indeed, my opinion has changed as I look upon defending the school written law requiring students to take a philosophy class.

The role and relationship between the teacher and students are fixed by the students-centered principle. It is to say that the students are the main part in communication, while the teacher helps the students to communicate.