My Teaching Philosophy Statement

Few features must be considered to provide students with an excellent quality of lesson and school life. The most important fact is to create a welcoming and intellectually challenging learning environment. Building relationships and communicating with students and parents, creating

My teaching philosophy is to create an environment that stimulates learning so that students gain the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to become proficient professionals. While teaching foundational knowledge is important, there are other essential skills and abilities that students must acquire in order to successfully transition from being a student to becoming a physical therapy professional. These skills and abilities include thinking critically as well as interacting and communicating effectively with patients and other health care practitioners. I emphasize to students that it is imperative to realize the impact of developing a therapeutic rapport with patients while providing quality, patient-centered care to optimize the healing process. Therefore, when deciding what to teach, I not only consider the content presented, but also how I can foster discussions with students so that they can apply information based on varying contextual factors. I also attempt to provide students a framework for how to achieve professional excellence, which I aim to model as I fulfill my roles and responsibilities as a teacher and provider of clinical instruction. This framework is rooted in five central tenets:

In my social bubble, teaching has always carried a one dimensional connotation to it, a word for academics. This, in itself, is not a bad thing. Students should be taught the deep and meaningful intricacies of Heron’s formula and the insightful lessons that can be gleamed in literary works such as King Lear. However, while academics should be treasured, teaching someone about life is

The context for teaching and learning incorporates and refers to the following learning environments: physical, social, personal, and content-specific. The physical contexts for teaching and learning may include things like desk arrangements, classroom temperature, room lighting, classroom design and capacity, time of day, and so on (Shulman, 2004). Palmer (1998) says, “good teaching is always essentially communal [and] that teaching cannot be reduced to technique” (pg. 115). He then goes on to say “engaging students in the community of truth does not require that we put the chairs in a circle and have a conversation. A sense of connected can also be generated—in classes large and small—through lectures, lab exercises, fieldwork,

My field experience this semester had a genuine impact on my outlook on teaching. It was very beneficial to be able to get a hands-on experience in a classroom, and to take the concepts I was being taught and apply them. The involvement I had in a first-grade classroom affected myself in an emotional and professional way. I could relate topics from class to my observations, and this provided me with a better understanding of motivation, praise, feedback, direct instruction, and literacy development.

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.

Students are entitled to an authentic learning experience, where the teacher is encouraging them to identify their own understanding of a concept or problem and “create” their own solutions. They are also learning through experience, “learning by doing”, in addition to connecting their learning to previous knowledge, they are developing a deeper understanding. (Vygotsky)

Students need to have hands-on experiences and engage in activities that promote critical thinking and creativity in order to make deeper connections, meaning, purpose and truly learn the material. Moreover, I believe that no one student is alike and that every student learns the material in a different way. Therefore, as an educator, I need to be able to identify and employ different ways to present the content such as videos, music, games, and movement. Also, I have learned that students need to feel like they can share their opinions without the fear of criticism. I will encourage my students to realize that there are two sides to every story and that everyone is unique.

My teaching philosophy is to engage in a mutual exchange of knowledge with the students. I believe that through helping students to develop skills of critical reflection and critical thinking they will become able to carry out innovative research and also succeed in work beyond academia. Through interactive teaching methods such as group work, role play, and joint presentations I seek not only to encourage students to engage with me as an instructor, but also to exchange and discuss ideas with their fellow students. I am a firm believer in the value of interdisciplinary teaching and research. Therefore, I seek to make my students familiar with concepts and research that reaches beyond political science and is related to law, sociology, and

At this phase, students must be able to demonstrate and apply their learning expected of them. In the classroom setting, it may be a personalized projects and presentations. But outside the classroom setting expectation is beyond the reflection and personal understanding but somewhat its applicability to learner’s everyday lives. It is the ability to exist and

Education is about learning and teaching. Education has formed part of the human societies for decades and teaching is said to be one of the oldest profession. Education is all about developing knowledge, skills and values. Through this statement, I am going to explain my teaching philosophy with the help of philosophers.

As a future elementary educator I will be required to teach all subject matters. Of these subjects I can foresee myself struggling when teaching social studies. My social studies education was not very excited and I hope to be able to change that trend and make social studies exciting and engaging for my students. It will be difficult for me to overcome my personal experience to make it pertinent. Additionally, although the subject comes to me easily, it has never been all that interesting of a subject for me. Fortunately I am learning strategies and tools for effective and fun teaching practices. My education at Central Michigan University has thus far been exemplary and I hope to continue learning and growing as an educator at CMU. I have gleaned knowledge from all areas of my educator such as professors, peers, articles, books, videos and classroom experience. All of these will be important to help me grow as an excellent will-rounded educator. Recently, I discovered social studies book called “It’s Up to You and Me Here and Across the Sea” produced by the Transatlantic Outreach Program. This resource is loaded with valuable information and activities that would be amazing for students and will be vastly beneficial for teaching social studies.

Some people say that a teaching career is the most valuable among hundreds of jobs because it can transfer knowledge from generation to generation; however, it is definitely not easy to become a good teacher; everybody needs to spend a lot of time to prepare themselves with knowledge coming from books and society so that teachers can link their lectures to real life. Thus, many subjects and skills for teaching are studied such as cross-cultural communication, literature, and even making presentations. For me, the subject that helps me the most in teaching is teaching practice covering how to teach students and how to face problems during a lesson.

My motivation to teach is rooted in my love for social studies including the opportunities that are available to facilitate conversations that engage students in critically analyzing the past while making connections to the present. I majored in history at California State University, San Bernardino which provided me with a foundation in social studies that I have continued to build upon as an educator. Throughout my academic journey, I have explored various disciplines while trying to discover my niche. Ultimately, my journey kept bringing me back to social studies and reinforcing my love for the discipline that explored so many social issues and one that encompassed a diversity of thought and discussion through courses like psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, and so on. However, it is one thing to learn and develop your own content knowledge, but it is very different to transfer this knowledge to students. My background knowledge of social studies helped me in my journey at TC to begin to take what I already knew and apply it to teaching students. I believe that teachers should dedicate themselves to be lifelong learners so that they may better help students in the acquisition of new knowledge. TC has given me the tools upon which to continue to grow to begin this journey as an educator.

In the opening of The Great Debaters Dr. James Farmer, declares “The most important job in America is the education of our young people”. Those teaching and being taught have accepted the responsibility of molding America’s tomorrow. We are stepping into ‘the hot spot’ as both the teacher and the taught, learning and giving lessons based more on character formation than fact memorization. You, I, personally are the teacher, life and its lessons, are the teacher. We are all the taught, but often, our education is invested into those who will be the future. We are teaching our young people, and allowing them to pursue otherwise unprecedented opportunities. To teach, and to be taught, it strengthens the mind, a tool that can never be taken away.