Teaching philosophy
With deference to all of the educational authors whom I may paraphrase, I believe that:
- The teaching-learning process is primarily for the benefit of the learner, not the teacher.
- All students want to, can, and will learn given the proper learning environment.
- Students actively and individually make sense of what they learn by connecting and integrating it with what they already understand.
- Teaching cannot occur without learning. I should always seek and value students’ points of view in order to understand students’ thought processes and knowledge acquisition.
- My ultimate responsibility as a teacher is to create a learning environment that facilitates learning for every student. My ultimate goal is to make each class the best learning experience students have ever had.