Teaching Philosophy
I believe that children are like stars because they can shine their way to a brighter future. These students will be heroes because they will act as bilingual interpreters for their friends, families, and others. As a teacher, I want to help my students become stars and heroes, and to do that I should motivate my students as best as I can. To be a really good teacher we have to know our students well by knowing what the student’s interests and needs are. Teachers should be understanding towards student and help second language learners of English embrace the language and whatever comes with it.
Motivation is the key to encourage students to not be afraid and to believe in their teachers. If a student is struggling then I have to help them because they are important. I, as a second language learner, understand what it’s like to be frustrated when learning a second language because the language is new to you, and a lot different from my own language. There were grammar rules and vocabularies that I had to learn, but with each lesson, I felt like everything’s a puzzle that I had to piece together to make sense. I remember one Japanese teacher who went a little too fast, and left me, and my classmates confused. If the teacher wasn’t careful about her teaching then the students would feel unmotivated, and want to give up. Students are important because we should focus more on them and their abilities. A teacher’s responsibility is to overlook what they need help on, see if the materials and lessons are hard or easy, understandable or not so that the next time we do a lesson we know what to expect from the students.
I will tell students that my classroom is their stage, where they can be comfortable around their class environment, friends and in front of the teacher. Having the students to be comfortable and open about their opinions is good because I don’t want my students to feel shy and scared, but I want to encourage them to voice out what they want to say. I can share conversations with the student, have them keep like a daily log that they can keep track of some strengths and weaknesses if students are shy to talk to me, they can e-mail me, see me after class, or have group discussions, and do brainstorming together and having a list down. The things that come on the list that students are struggling with can have extra help after school, and I can provide that student with some activities, or go over their problems with them.
A teacher should have lots of patience, kindness, be fun, creative, who always smiles and always open to listens to her students’ opinion. I think this is the best way to have the respect from the students as oppose to being a strict teacher, who ignores the students, and scold them. If a teacher is strict on a student they will just shy away, lose confidence, and lack motivation to learn. I’ve had experiences with teachers in the past that did not treat their students fairly, had favoritism, put down some students, gave up on students, and didn’t really help us at all. These teachers lacked compassion for the other students and basically ignored them, and this is not the kind of teacher that I want to be.
I want to encourage teamwork in my class because students can learn is from each other. Students can become a lot better when they are learning from their peers, their mistakes, and things they didn’t learn before can develop as they progress, and it’s a great learning opportunity. If they work together students will be able to help each other out and do things together.
Teachers and students also learn from each other, and reflections can help the teacher by observing what went well and what didn’t by logging it in a daily journal. So when we teach again or want to use the same materials we can at least touch up on what we tried, what needs to be improved, and what to add. Experience makes the best teachers.
To help with memorization, learning vocabularies, adjectives or to start off with an activity I can use icebreakers because icebreakers shake off all tensions and tiredness, and games like Pictionary- to help students with vocabulary and creativity skills, Cherades- students can see the action while trying to figure out which vocabulary matches the action, and hangman- to help students guess the word from the vocabulary they’ve already acquired. For the vocabularies we could go over words that are needed for special purposes like directions, how to order food, shopping, making new friends, going on a date, looking for a job, filling out applications.
I will also focus more on writing, reading and speaking and other things. With writing, students will be able to express themselves with journals, writing their own stories, poems, and penpal with other students at another institute. On reading, I want my students to enjoy reading with materials to help them with their pronunciation like tongue twisters, plays, reading stories together. With speaking, I could structure some role plays like interviewing each other in pairs or groups, or if they want my students can come up with situations they have faced or will face in the future that we can solve together, especially the situations that are not written in their textbook. We can sing songs and maybe have an English talent show. I have friends who are teachers so maybe have my class and their class participate in this event would be exciting. I would like my students to also perform by doing reading theatre by reading and acting at the same time.
I believe that when students love what they are learning they also love their teacher, and the teacher did a good job with the students and has become well respected. This is the kind of teacher I want to be, that my students would want to remember. We become like our teachers, and the teachers that we came to appreciate and respect becomes who we are, because they were the ones that taught us these values. The joy when you see the students smiling, becoming confident, understanding and learning a lot- when students build that trust with their teacher, that is the best award that we’ll always cherish.
Motivation is the key to encourage students to not be afraid and to believe in their teachers. If a student is struggling then I have to help them because they are important. I, as a second language learner, understand what it’s like to be frustrated when learning a second language because the language is new to you, and a lot different from my own language. There were grammar rules and vocabularies that I had to learn, but with each lesson, I felt like everything’s a puzzle that I had to piece together to make sense. I remember one Japanese teacher who went a little too fast, and left me, and my classmates confused. If the teacher wasn’t careful about her teaching then the students would feel unmotivated, and want to give up. Students are important because we should focus more on them and their abilities. A teacher’s responsibility is to overlook what they need help on, see if the materials and lessons are hard or easy, understandable or not so that the next time we do a lesson we know what to expect from the students.
I will tell students that my classroom is their stage, where they can be comfortable around their class environment, friends and in front of the teacher. Having the students to be comfortable and open about their opinions is good because I don’t want my students to feel shy and scared, but I want to encourage them to voice out what they want to say. I can share conversations with the student, have them keep like a daily log that they can keep track of some strengths and weaknesses if students are shy to talk to me, they can e-mail me, see me after class, or have group discussions, and do brainstorming together and having a list down. The things that come on the list that students are struggling with can have extra help after school, and I can provide that student with some activities, or go over their problems with them.
A teacher should have lots of patience, kindness, be fun, creative, who always smiles and always open to listens to her students’ opinion. I think this is the best way to have the respect from the students as oppose to being a strict teacher, who ignores the students, and scold them. If a teacher is strict on a student they will just shy away, lose confidence, and lack motivation to learn. I’ve had experiences with teachers in the past that did not treat their students fairly, had favoritism, put down some students, gave up on students, and didn’t really help us at all. These teachers lacked compassion for the other students and basically ignored them, and this is not the kind of teacher that I want to be.
I want to encourage teamwork in my class because students can learn is from each other. Students can become a lot better when they are learning from their peers, their mistakes, and things they didn’t learn before can develop as they progress, and it’s a great learning opportunity. If they work together students will be able to help each other out and do things together.
Teachers and students also learn from each other, and reflections can help the teacher by observing what went well and what didn’t by logging it in a daily journal. So when we teach again or want to use the same materials we can at least touch up on what we tried, what needs to be improved, and what to add. Experience makes the best teachers.
To help with memorization, learning vocabularies, adjectives or to start off with an activity I can use icebreakers because icebreakers shake off all tensions and tiredness, and games like Pictionary- to help students with vocabulary and creativity skills, Cherades- students can see the action while trying to figure out which vocabulary matches the action, and hangman- to help students guess the word from the vocabulary they’ve already acquired. For the vocabularies we could go over words that are needed for special purposes like directions, how to order food, shopping, making new friends, going on a date, looking for a job, filling out applications.
I will also focus more on writing, reading and speaking and other things. With writing, students will be able to express themselves with journals, writing their own stories, poems, and penpal with other students at another institute. On reading, I want my students to enjoy reading with materials to help them with their pronunciation like tongue twisters, plays, reading stories together. With speaking, I could structure some role plays like interviewing each other in pairs or groups, or if they want my students can come up with situations they have faced or will face in the future that we can solve together, especially the situations that are not written in their textbook. We can sing songs and maybe have an English talent show. I have friends who are teachers so maybe have my class and their class participate in this event would be exciting. I would like my students to also perform by doing reading theatre by reading and acting at the same time.
I believe that when students love what they are learning they also love their teacher, and the teacher did a good job with the students and has become well respected. This is the kind of teacher I want to be, that my students would want to remember. We become like our teachers, and the teachers that we came to appreciate and respect becomes who we are, because they were the ones that taught us these values. The joy when you see the students smiling, becoming confident, understanding and learning a lot- when students build that trust with their teacher, that is the best award that we’ll always cherish.
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