Teaching Philosophy
Since the context and the behaviors that I am working with in the Foundation are outcomes of tough childhood years, it is more important to teach values and ethos through my courses. My point is that education comes from within the student. Before studying literature, math and history, students should learn central values that will dominate their ethos throughout their lives. Under the context that I am teaching the primary aim is to recover the past traumatic experiences of the students, through ethos, and the secondary is to teach them, for example, certain facts and dates in history.
My overall purpose of teaching is for students to apply the content I teach in real life and to learn the importance of values. Students must have faith, together with the teacher, to participate jointly in the classroom and the decisions taken may come out with reasonable values, content and coverage. My role as a teacher in helping those students to learn is highly critical. Teachers working in such Foundations must be acquainted with patience and determination.
Palmer in The Teacher Within. More precisely, he argued that there are times when we must work for money rather than meaning but we should not forget the violence that we do to others and ourselves by working on something that we do not really like. The teacher within is not the voice of conscience but of identity and integrity. This definition of the teacher must not be no more perfectly illustrated by the case of the Foundation. It is important, here, to highlight the significance of loving your work.
Having the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth where education is not represented by mere transfer of knowledge but by caring and doing your best for the children that you teach. Since those children are lacking the advice and warmth of their parents, my role as a teacher of them was crucial for their personal development and achievement. Adding to this chapter something valuable, I thought it is helpful to add a test called TPI (five perspectives in teaching) that I have been assigned to complete during this semester.
I believe that this test is useful, also here, in order to define better my overall stance as a teacher and my precise teaching perspective. This will help me more on the description of my stance and my feelings, thoughts and attitudes toward those students, during my work with them. After the completion of the test I was assigned to the so-called ‘Nurturing’ Perspective. Under this perspective, effective teachers depend primarily on the content expertise. There is, also, a strong belief that learning is most affected by a learner’s self- concept and self- efficacy. Those are the two notions that shaped my strategies and methods in my practice setting.
The goal of my stance, as well as of nurturing perspective, is to help students become more confident and self- sufficient learners. To achieve this goal, learners must, not only, be successful but they must attribute their success to their own effort and ability.
My overall purpose of teaching is for students to apply the content I teach in real life and to learn the importance of values. Students must have faith, together with the teacher, to participate jointly in the classroom and the decisions taken may come out with reasonable values, content and coverage. My role as a teacher in helping those students to learn is highly critical. Teachers working in such Foundations must be acquainted with patience and determination.
Palmer in The Teacher Within. More precisely, he argued that there are times when we must work for money rather than meaning but we should not forget the violence that we do to others and ourselves by working on something that we do not really like. The teacher within is not the voice of conscience but of identity and integrity. This definition of the teacher must not be no more perfectly illustrated by the case of the Foundation. It is important, here, to highlight the significance of loving your work.
Having the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth where education is not represented by mere transfer of knowledge but by caring and doing your best for the children that you teach. Since those children are lacking the advice and warmth of their parents, my role as a teacher of them was crucial for their personal development and achievement. Adding to this chapter something valuable, I thought it is helpful to add a test called TPI (five perspectives in teaching) that I have been assigned to complete during this semester.
I believe that this test is useful, also here, in order to define better my overall stance as a teacher and my precise teaching perspective. This will help me more on the description of my stance and my feelings, thoughts and attitudes toward those students, during my work with them. After the completion of the test I was assigned to the so-called ‘Nurturing’ Perspective. Under this perspective, effective teachers depend primarily on the content expertise. There is, also, a strong belief that learning is most affected by a learner’s self- concept and self- efficacy. Those are the two notions that shaped my strategies and methods in my practice setting.
The goal of my stance, as well as of nurturing perspective, is to help students become more confident and self- sufficient learners. To achieve this goal, learners must, not only, be successful but they must attribute their success to their own effort and ability.