Each child is a unique person who requires a safe and compassionate environment for developing his or her motivation, skills and abilities and for interacting within the society successfully. The main principle of my philosophy of teaching is to provide children with secure surroundings which are advantageous for developing and demonstrating their talents and sharing ideas. The purpose of my philosophy is to demonstrate children the opportunities of their mind and will and contribute to their desire to learn more, improve their knowledge and develop their skills.
There are fundamentals that I consider necessary to make this favorable environment: first, teachers stand in as guides; second, children’s interest directs a teacher’s learning, and third, teachers and children respect each other.
My most significant goals are to provide children with assurance and make the process of learning easier for students. To achieve these goals, it will be necessary for me to perform as a teacher and as a student. It is important to be a professional and control the discipline, but it is also important to focus on students’ difficulties in working with the new material and try to find right answers to the problematic questions in cooperation with them.
Sharing interests, it is possible to follow different approaches to discussing the subject, and I expect that my students will be able even direct me to new perceptive from which it is useful to observe the point. Thus, each course can become “ours” to a certain extent rather than being “mine”.
As a tutor, my obligation is to present students the right direction to reach their own goals and realize expectations. From this point, students’ dreams and zeal for learning more will guide them to their desired careers. To realize these ideas, it is important for me to teach students with references to their individualities to make them feel satisfied and victorious. Thus, I am inclined to follow the curriculum oriented to the development of students’ curiosity and making the learning material applicable to life. The course can include the learning of definite subject matters, concentration on specific units, orientation to group and individual work. Furthermore, I will connect studying activities with participation in the community life in order to demonstrate students the correlation between the everyday learning and the outside reality.
My teaching activities will be based on such factors as the proficiency in the subject matter, experience, and individual approach. That is why, contacts with students are necessary for following my approach, and an open-door policy can be discussed as the effective method to help students in their academic work. However, not all the students will respond to my teaching methods positively. The problem is in the fact students often focus more on their grades than on their actual knowledge, skills, and experience.
Furthermore, the democratic approach to teaching can result in such negative outcomes as the decrease of the students’ attention and concentration on the subject. Nevertheless, I am sure that the orientation to students’ interests, knowledge of students’ psychology, and my experience of working in Title I Program can help me overcome all the possible difficulties.
Today, it is essential for students to get the outstanding education and have an educator who is attentive of their personal education requirements. That is why, my approach or philosophy of teaching can be discussed as rather successful because of the effective combination of the basic principles of education with orienting to students’ needs and interests. Thus, education should provide students with the opportunities to develop not only professionally but also as a person.