My Teaching Philosophy

Teaching is a great profession. My mission to become teacher started during my school days. I had good experience with different teachers both locally and internationally. As a student and a teacher I had enough experience in the field of education. My teaching philosophy evolved from many years through experience as a student and as a teacher. Teaching is my ambition.

Most of the time students find that the subjects are bored. The reason was that new subjects with new theories and new concepts would be difficult to understand by the students. But when the time passed with the subject student felt easy and there would be more attraction and attentiveness towards the subject. Where I explained the concepts and theories taking example in real life situation relating to the subject matter. Also students were asked to share their experiences on the same matter. This provides opportunity for the students to invade the subject. After peer discussion encouraged to have more depth analysis of the subject. Thus it will have positive reflect of the students towards the subject.

I believed teaching should be student centered and teacher should play a facilitating role. The teacher should have enough conceptual and practical skills in order to deliver the lesson more effectively and efficiently to the classroom. The teacher should understand the background of the students and plan the lesson to cater all the students effectively.

I believed that a positive atmosphere is essential in student centered teaching. A positive atmosphere should be provided by the teacher. Where students are encouraged to discuss questions and learn through mistakes. However mistakes are to be taken as opportunities to explore students’ misconceptions and to bring solutions for it.

The cognitive functioning of the students is essential to implement and apply concepts and theories that are appropriate for the lesson. I believed that proper plan of assessment base on the individual students cognitive ability will be a positive advantage for the students to acquire maximum from the lesson. There are many activates that can be used: such as brief writings, which helps me to determine the thinking ability of my students and to modify my instructions accordingly. If I am failed to address their cognitive function, there will be high chance that my students experiencing ‘miss’ learning.

Application of learning theories in the classroom is a great opportunity for the teachers to identify learning behavior of the different students. Based on the findings I can modify the activities in a way it cater the needs of all the students. Through experience if a teacher is able to apply behavioural appropriately it will be great opportunity for him. It can benefit classroom learning and classroom management at all the levels. Meanwhile cognitive learning principles work with behavioural theory to bring maximum intellectual level of the students. Some of the activities I offered in the classroom are: think-pair-share, classroom jigsaw activities, constructive controversies and interactive lectures.

I strongly believed that good assessment techniques is one of the essential component of an effective teacher. To get clear picture about students’ knowledge on the subject we do asses the students in different ways. I use alternative types of assessment to asses my students; such as rubrics, checklists, portfolios, presentations, and written exams.

Following the above discussed principles helped me to expand in my love of teaching and learning. Also I believed that by sharing my philosophy and passion for teaching and learning, and using the above principles I can deliver my teaching material to the students more effectively and efficiently. I believed that accepting responsibility of teaching and students accepting responsibility of learning does not make sense. Because it seems to be more teacher centered. In modern systems student centered teaching and learning is encouraged and practiced. So I develop a sense of community (empowering the students to initiate with learning) and as the members of the community students are responsible not only to themselves, but to the other members of the community even including me (the teacher). Thus it will result peer learning, passion, empathy, and sincere enthusiasm. This will have positive impacts on the learners’ ultimately connecting to them to their passion and lifelong learning.