Philosophy Before Practicum
My teaching philosophy is to create strong individual learners by inspiring them to develop their own ideas, express their feelings, take chances, make choices, and share their opinions. Fostering an environment of Social Emotional Learning and the collaboration as the foundation for a quality learning experience. Classroom activities will be designed to target learners’ development in self-regulated learning. The activities would include the sharing of individual ideas to a group of peers and being confident with a supportive class environment. The sharing of ideas is important with the ability to express the feelings by making the choice to take the chance of sharing their ideas.
My role as a teacher will be to create a continual self-discovery in the learner. Classroom set up and environment is crucial to being proactive. According to Watson the classroom environment need to be set up to foster students’ social, emotional, moral and intellectual development. To do this the teacher needs to set up collaborative learning activities, regular class meetings, and a relationship based approach to classroom management. Each learner needs to feel a sense of belonging and the student teacher relationship is important along with effective classroom management to promote SEC (Jennings, 2009). As a teacher I will facilitate student to student relationships. Positive relationship and caring school communities develop the rights of feelings of others, positive attitudes towards their school, and motivation to take their school work seriously (Watson, 2004). The students will be testing the student-teacher relationship because of an open territory environment setup for the students. The relationship will be tested to the relationship limits. To avoid the students from continually testing the limits a teacher can set up social contracts with the students so they know what to expect and the teacher has bottom lines (Gossen, 1998). The bottom line set up is mainly for the teachers’ wellbeing to prevent them from getting over anxious when students test the limits. Teaching is to be fun, creative, educational, and rewarding; setting up a teaching philosophy will continually make teaching fun and prevent the teacher from becoming burnt out.
Why Did I Connect with Social Emotional Learning?
In my philosophy I connected with more then just teaching the fundamentals of the PLO’s. I wanted to give every child support emotional support so they can learn whatever they decide to and have a life-long learning experience for future schooling. For a guide to SEL check out this site, http://www.casel.org/social-and-emotional-learning/
How Has My Philosophy changed after Practicum?
I want to use First Peoples principles in my lessons where the student are at the center of their learning and you are teaching learners in a holistic environment.