Katelyn WhiteMar. 8, 09Classroom PhilosophyI believe that a part of being a teacher is teaching our students to be good citizens, andwhole people. Content knowledge of subjects like math, science, literature and reading are allvery important, but so is the knowledge of how to be a contributing member of our society.Respect, empathy, and a sense of community are all things that I plan to teach my students andmake a part of my classroom. I don’t plan on doing this by rewarding them with treats or the promise of a pizza party whenever they behave as I am trying to teach them because then theyare just trying to get the reward and that losses the value of the action. How I plan to teach mystudents this is by expecting a lot from my students because I believe that they are capable of meeting my high expectations. In my experience I have noticed that students will rise to theexpectations that you hold for them because they want to be better than they already are and theywant someone to believe they can be better. I will be up front about this policy with all mystudents at the beginning of every year and this policy will stand throughout the year. The major part that I will play on this is being consistent with this policy in order to keep my students trustand not break their belief that I believe they can do great things.As for my classroom philosophy in the area of teaching my students content knowledge I believe that students learn best when they are allowed to learn through experience. I believe thattext books have their value too and they will be utilized, but as a secondary to letting my studentslearn from experience. I will let the students learn science through doing science experimentsand then use the text book to reinforce the ideas of what they learned from the experiment. Mathwill not just be learning a concept and then practicing it through a bunch of homework assignments because what I have learned from experience is that learning this way usually onlyleads to the students memorizing how to do the problem, but never really learning the concept of
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