Statement Of Teaching Accomplishments And Philosophy

As a future educator, it is the my job to educate all students through means of teaching that enable students to be successful in health, fitness, leadership, character development, and accountability for their regular lives outside of school.

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.

Finally, my experience supervising junior practicum students and developing a training manual at my previous site has motivated me to continue

“Teaching is not a profession; it’s a passion. Without passion for your subject and a desire for your students to learn and be the best in the world, then we have failed as a teacher and failure is not an option.” –John F. Podojil. In my opinion, this quotation is very true. If you do not have the passion to teach your students what is right in the world and what makes them be the best they can be, then you are not really teaching your students or you have failed and failure is not an option. I want to not only teach my students important subject manner but be an inspiration to my students as well. I want to be the teacher that students will come back to in ten or fifteen years and say,

Education is defined as the lifelong process of acquiring knowledge, skills, and values through either formal means, such as schooling, or informal means, such as firsthand experiences or vicarious experiences gained through reading books or discussions. Every person that is or wants to be a teacher has his or her own educational philosophy. We all have our own views, methods, and curriculum that we were taught when growing up. A lot of people may have the same teachers in school, but all of them learn different things from that teacher.

There are two major accomplishments that I consider important. One is the successful completion of military service. The two years I served in the 2nd Infantry Division gave me an unparalleled experience that cultivated me with a capacity for duty, respect, courage, loyalty, and integrity, but most importantly, I learned to pursue my goals relentlessly with great discipline. Another is recently completing a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. The program equipped me with knowledge and skills to use interdisciplinary approaches and systems thinking in analyzing environmental issues.

As a Case Manager and Educator, I am self-motivated with helping kids, elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, who voices are unheard and often are ignored. I have made it a personal mission; By joining DFPS to assure that each person lives in a safe environment but have an opportunity to thrive and have an equal chance to live like others. I feel the proper approach to making sure this happens is by addressing their needs in a holistic manner. Having worked in direct services for twenty plus years as a Case Manager mainly in non-profits organizations and in the has provided me the opportunity live out my dreams by helping people to narrow their barriers to an unhealthy and unsafe environment.

They have an endless thirst for knowledge. They all share a love for learning. I am amazed at the quality of the work that comes out of the Boundary Street workshop, but what amazes me even more are the students that participate in the workshop. I aspire to part of a community like this - collaborative, dedicated, kind, and inspiring. Part of Carnegie Mellon’s Mission Statement is “To create and disseminate knowledge and art through research and creative inquiry, teaching, and learning, and to transfer our intellectual and artistic product to enhance society in meaningful and sustainable ways.”
Looking at the great changes students at Carnegie Mellon have brought to the world today, the Mission Statement rings truer than ever and it fuels my desire to attend. I want to be a part of that group that changes the world – even if it’s just a little

As an undergraduate, I was a dedicated student attempting to accumulate relevant knowledge of the field. Additionally, I attended and participated in organizing several seminars and workshops related to my field of study. During my senior year, I completed my internship at the Laboratory and Blood Bank at King Abdullah Medical City as a Medical Technician Intern for which I was rewarded with the (Top Biochemistry Intern) reward from the University.

My greatest accomplishment is standing where I am right now. Life is a constant work-in-progress and that all moments, the monumental huge ones and the small quiet ones, all makeup who I am. Having lived in different countries, I’ve been cultivated by various topics (i.e. science, ideologies, and entertainment) into a multifaceted person and global citizen. Throughout my life, I have been able to connect with people from different backgrounds and build valuable relationships. In August 2009 at the age of 23, I moved to the United States for graduate school without having any family or friends. Since then, I received my Ph.D. in Biomedical engineering and worked for several top technology companies. I have made many friends and built a diverse and strong network around the world.

I have been dreamed to become a teacher since I was 13 years old, at that time, I tried really hard in studying, but it did not really work for me. Most of my teachers gave up on me, only one of them did not, that was my Chinese teacher, Mrs. Zhang. Mrs.Zhang asked every people in my class to write three journals every week, and I wrote many negative things in my journals. She read them, and called me over to her office, we had a very long conversation. She believed I that was just still on the middle of processing to become a middle school student, and suggested me to change my learning methods. “It is not the time to give up yet.” I could read many things from her eyes, and the most important one was that she trusted me. I did not want to disappoint her, it took me almost a year to change everything and became the top ten in my class. Now, I am in college, and on the way to become a high school chemistry teacher. I want to help more and more people when they are struggle, tell them how study will benefit our live, just like what Mrs.Zhang did on me.

The economic, social, and political systems of the United States are arranged in a manner that benefits the few at the expense of the rest. Unfortunately, the school is a tool indirectly used by the government to perpetuate the injustice and keep things in tact. Blind patriotism in the classroom suppresses discussion on pervasive inequalities, leaving students to ignorantly accept the status quo. As a social reconstructionist, I believe that younger generations should learn about the wrongs that persist, so they can fix our broken society when it is their turn to lead.

Each member is necessary for the benefit of the student’s needs, as they each contribute insight and resources in a cooperative effort.

My work experience has also being a great asset to my research knowledge. I have worked at UC Davis in the evaluation/research field for 3 years in two capacities: as a student assistant at the Center for Education and Evaluation Services and currently as an Evaluation Analyst for the iAMSTEM Hub. As a student assistant, I prepared data for analysis via data cleaning and statistical diagnostic tests. I collaborated on building statistical models to assess program effectiveness, as well as collaborating on both evaluation reports and publications. Now as an Evaluation Analyst, I am working on the program evaluation for an NIH grant; working with repeated measures and qualitative coding. I work with large longitudinal data sets to answer various research questions for departments across UCD, often utilizing multilevel modeling to account for the nested structure of the data as well as applying propensity score analysis to make better predictions of non-randomized studies. This work in the research field has solidified my drive for pursuing a Ph.D., in order to advance my career and obtain my goal of becoming a researcher in an academic setting.

Every teacher has a different method of teaching. The teachers that I have had in my school career have been no exception. In this way, each teacher has set an example for me, as a future teacher, to follow or not to follow as I see fit. With the examples from my teachers and in continuing my education, I am developing my own method of teaching. I plan to use a combination of teaching methods in my own classroom. My method will be an eclectic approach because I will be using components of more than one philosophy. I will be using essentialism, behaviorism, progressivism, and existentialism.