My personal teaching philosophy.
My purpose as a teacher.
As a teacher my purpose is to teach learners and give them all the required information for them to understand the content of my subject. It is also my duty to come up with strategies or create a pedagogy to make the curriculum more flexible and easier for the learners to understand what I am trying to teach them about. As a foundation phase teacher it is also my duty to ensure that all the learners are emotionally and socially well developed in order for them to be able to participate in class activities.
Conceptualization of learning
Acquiring knowledge by instruction or study is learning,which is the purpose of education. Learning is building a bridge, unfamiliar content is made more meaningful bridging what is known to what is unknown. Learners are a varied and unpredictable group. It may take a visit to my office for one-on-one instruction before a student learns something that others in the classroom learned with five minutes. As a teachers I will take care of this learners using the theory of Howard Gardner of Multiple intelligence, so I will take a look on how this students are understanding better and the I will use different methods to teach same learners.
Conceptualizing of teaching.
I define teaching as the process by which I help students learn. I will guide learning by helping students individually, at other times instructing the whole class, and still at other times by encouraging class participation. If the teaching appears memorized, not spoken diaphragmatically,not spoken with eye contact,and there are no visual aids,then learning will not take place. As a well trained teacher I will allow the learners to take centre stage, I will be the type of teacher who will listen to the comments of students in order to develop connection between me and them.
Goal for students.
One of the goals I have for my foundation phase learners is for them to develop a capacity for a divergent and creative thinking at an early stage. I also want them to be very skillful listeners in order for my class to have control and co-operation. I want my learners to be exposed to the things that are happening in the real world at an early stage. I want my learners to be co-operative,learners learn better if they know the immediate results of their work,there for I will evaluate their work early and return it by the next class time.Foundation phase learners learn best through playing so i will give them enough time to play.
I will list five goals which I have set for my self as a teacher. Firstly is to listen my learners and respect them the way I expect them to respect me. Secondly I will invite other well experienced to sit on my class to get their input on how my teaching can be improved. A third goal is to be a well known caring teacher around my community. I want parents in the community to feel free to approach me when they want to talk about the education of their children. The fourth goal is to be a very representative teacher and a good role model to young people. I will attend meetings that supports the needs of the community and its people. My last,but not least,it is my goal to be nominated on media as Ehlandzeni District best performed teacher of the year.
My plans to ensure the context remains optimal.
As a 21st century teacher I have to get my self used to things that uses technology. In order for teaching to be less difficult, firstly u have to research information and that needs you to be computer literate and having an idea how the internet works. So as a teacher I will use the internet to ensure that the context remains optimal if there are other changes I will give my self time to go and research from my colleagues and other teachers who will be teaching the same grade as me. Conducting researches and investigations will be the two things that I will get my self used to, that will help me to understands the things that are going on in other schools around the country.
