Thinking

It is important for an individual to make an effort to identify personal strengths, weaknesses and strive to realize and maximize their potential as a human being. My goal as an educator is to be effective in stimulating the minds of students while inspiring them to fall in love with learning.

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From a very young age up until now, I have always had within me an insatiable curiosity. Celebrated theoretical physicist Richard Feynman explained the importance of curiosity best by distinguishing the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something. In his personal anecdotes, the importance of curiosity is highlighted and a contributing factor in effective knowledge acquisition.

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As an educator, it is my responsibility to ensure that curriculum is taught in a manner providing many pathways leading to curiosity. Incorporating a teaching standard [stream of critical thinking throughout my curriculum] that caters to multiple intelligences, giving way to the exploration of curiosity is a personal teaching philosophy of mine.

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I would like to promote thinking. Thinking for one’s self. Empowering the human’s ability to create, and to innovate. To encourage and motivate humans to …be human. To question and to be curious, we need spaces of exploration in Secondary education.

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I would like to encourage the workings within a classroom as an appealing entity for students to explore information, to organize, sort, synthesize their thoughts and feelings to develop a concreteness to their concluded position on critical issues that are faced every, single, day.