JaQuez, Gilliard Philosophy of Education ‘When you enter my classroom, you will discover that you are a part of a big extended family. We are a family that will respect each other despite our cultural differences. I will set high standards for my students and strive for us to reach them together. It is my philosophy that i students should be responsible for their own Icarning, they should have some college awareness, | and they should be trained to become well-rounded, | As the classroom facilitator, I will ensure that each of my students are responsible for | their own leaning. ‘They will be provided with rap videos, periodically, to help them remember formulas to various math problems. As we matriculate through the school year, the students will be responsible for creating their own rap video. Each student will be assigned to a group and they will meet every Friday for at least twenty minutes to strategize. After the completion of their projects, I will invite their parents in for a night of “Pizza and Productions’ to show off their creativity. The following year, I will show the next set of students the videos to get them excited about creating their own, In my classroom, I will introduce many College and Universities within the State of South Carolina to my students. I will ensure that all of those schools’ pennants hang on the walls, of my classroom, My students will also lean about different Colleges and Universities across the United States and learn the differences between a HBCU and a PWI. I will hold class discussions | about different types of majors and minors, and I will have my students write about their dream | school. My students will be educated and college bound, If permitted, I will take my students on | trips to local colleges and universities to have class discussions and lunch at least once each | semester. | By the end of our class, my students will have become more well-rounded. They will j have learned how to respect and work well with other people who are different from them. They will be trained how to create things and how to present them to an audience; and my students will be college bound and they will travel. The most important aspect of my presence is to ensure that my students transition into an Educated Mind Set. I believe the quote that states the following, “education is not a preparation for life; itis life itself.” If T teach them how to think, they will only know how I think. However, ifI teach them to think, they will teach me what they know and together we will all grow because we are a family!