miƩrcoles, 17 de diciembre de 2008

My Teaching Philosophy

I consider teaching is to guide and contribute to students' personal development as members of the society. It is a goal to provide students with the correct tools and values that will help them to face their achievements and difficulties with responsibility and desire to be better in their learning process. As teacher who guide in the leaning of a language, it is important to motivate students and create the atmosphere necessary to develop learning. In this way it is necessary to increase motivation and self-esteem in our student. Create an environment that makes interesting and necessary improve in their learning process is the objective of teaching. The idea is make of learning a game, but in good terms. That is to say, make students enjoy learning and create the need to know more, to go deeper and clarify doubts and difficulties. If I am able, as a teacher, to create the need to improve the performance and overcome difficulties, I think I will be doing a good work. That is why I consider it is important provide students with learning strategies and let them know that we all are in a learning process, that they can improve if they just make an effort.


Values and formation is also an important part in the teaching process. Teachers are not only those who provide guidance in a specific topic. Teachers are those who provide guidance in the daily life behavior. Form our students in values; let them know how important it is to respect, to be tolerant and responsible will also support the learning process. It is also important to maintain a common view of teaching with parents and have common goals at school as well as at home. Students reflect what they see, so teachers and parents must be a model of responsibility and enthusiasm for learning.


In the learning process students fill more comfortable in class if it exists an empathy with the teachers. It is necessary provide students will enough confidents that encourage them to ask and look for teacher help. It is important as well keep the control of the group, do not confuse confidence with lack of respect. In this case it is convenient take into account teacher centered and students centered classes. Give the opportunity to ask, suggest and participate, but also to follow instructions, listen and act in the way that allow students have a good performance.


1 comentario:

Sandra dijo...

The part of "making learning a game" has made think about a video or a computer game: Players are told what they will achieve at the end of the game and are instructed on what they need to get started. They also get to succeed at their own pace: The first levels are somewhat easy and they can move to more challenging levels once they're able to master the previous ones. A game combines multiple skills and players have to keep using them (and even perfecting them) all the way 'til the end. It's a great analogy :-)