Belief Statement

I believe that children play a significant role in the progress and preservation of the

values of our society. It is crucial to educate children on the roles that they hold in their family,

school community, and as citizens of our country in order to establish an awareness and respect

for the voice they carry as a individual and the responsibilities of citizenship that lie there within.

The ways in which we train and educate our children will affect the course of our nation as the

mantle of leadership is passed on from our current generation to those coming up behind us.

I believe that every child possesses their own unique learning style that requires a

teacher to utilize methods that involve kinesthetic, auditory, and visual tools for learning.

During a math lesson that I taught to a first grade classroom on “Ten Less and Ten More,” I

showed a video on the screen that walked my class through the process of learning how to add

ten to a number and find ten less than a given number to support the students who were visual

learners. Furthermore, I gave a brief explanation on the board for my audio learners and provided

a concrete model with base ten blocks for my kinesthetic learners. It’s important to present

information in multimodal forms in order to convey the content for the learners exhibited in ones

classroom.

I believe that music is a critical tool that supports learners appreciation of the world

around them and ignites learning through melodic structures that support memory.

Whether it is a jingle sung during transitions to line-up ones students, or the rhythmic tapping of

a beat learned in music class which helps a hyperactive student stay on task, music can provide a

vehicle for engagement in learning that sets it apart from other content areas taught in schools

today.