If
you were asked, “What do you believe about teaching?” or “What do you want to
achieve as a teacher?” What would your response be? Those answers will simply
indicate what your teaching philosophy is all about. Here you have mine; how
much does it differ from yours?
MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
By
Prof. Jonathan Acuña Solano
Thursday,
September 18, 2014
Twitter:
@jonacuso
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Education is a simple and complex
equation in which 50% is provided by the Instructor (teaching) and the other
50% is supplied by the Students (learning); without this symbiosis education
may not take place. Learning is then an autonomous journey anyone is meant to
take to shape his/her knowledge. In a successful learning situation, pupils
will achieve learning outcomes and will develop new competencies they can
eventually employ at work.
My perfect learning environment is
that one in which students are self-motivated because deep learning is part of
their way of being and experiencing knowledge. Life-long learning is what
inevitably happens once my students are away from my virtual or F2F classroom
since their thirst for more knowledge is so great that they need to quench it
on their own, exploring new horizons in their education autonomously. And in
this process, pupils will indeed develop their critical and hierarchical
thinking skills to succeed and excel in their field.
When my teaching is over, I would like
my students to have developed all sorts of competencies to become excellent
teaching professionals and to have satisfied their learning expectations in any
of my courses. I really want my students to develop their whole potential to
eventually see them using technology in their classroom wisely and ecologically
and to see them apply suitable classroom management strategies that can really
yield learning and a positive environment to foster that learning, too. I’d
really like to see them planning and carrying out all sorts of activities in
their future classroom to produce and replicate learning for other learners,
their learners.
As a well-matured teaching
professional, I have sampled lots of teaching methodologies, and now –at this
point in my teaching career- I guess I have found a nice niche for my teaching
potential: Project-Based Learning in content courses in a hybrid fashion because
I want students to experience hands-on projects to develop creativity and a
sense of accomplishment and CLT or Communicative Language Teaching –the real
stuff- for the language classes I get to teach with a twist in which Krashen’s
Model for Learning is always present.
I see myself as a trainer rather than
a teacher. I want to prepare teaching professionals who can face current and
future challenges in education. For that reason, providing formative feedback
for guidance towards learning is my priority. If I see my pupils as my
trainees, I can “train” them to become topnotch language instructors who can
excel by themselves and benefit their future students’ learning. As trainees I
want my pupils to learn the importance of treating others as humans and not
just as a number is a college system. Likewise, they will treat their future
learners as people and not a numerical figure. Furthermore, I want my students
to really experience deep learning, not surface learning, since competencies
and skills they will develop in my classes are useful assets for their teaching
practice and professional development.
By attaching myself to these to these basic
principles, I have developed myself professionally and matured as a teaching
professional. Education is a symbiosis of many different factors, and I want my
students to be certain that they will learn what is already stated in a course
outline and why not, beyond.
Coppola,
B. (n.d.). Writing a statement of teaching
philosophy: Fashioning a framework for your classroom. Retrieved from http://galois.math.ucdavis.edu/UsefulGradInfo/HelpfulAdvice/
University of Minnesota, Center for Teaching
and Learning. (2013). Writing Your Teaching Philosophy. Retrieved on Thursday,
Sept. 18, 2014 from the University of Minnesota webpage at http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/philosophy/index.html
The Pebble Pad. (2010, Oct. 15). Writing a
Teaching Philosophy. Retrieved on Tuesday, Sept 16 from The Pebble Pad website
at http://portfolio.pebblepad.co.uk/bradford/viewasset.aspx?oid=361083&type=thought
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