The content students learn in each class is immensely important, but the goal of education should be forming the entire person. My teaching philosophy is based upon Love and Logic principles, respect for persons, and the formation of the whole person. This will be accomplished through being a positive role model for my students and cultivating meaningful relationships with them. My goal is to foster an environment that promotes students’ independence and their critical thinking skills. By imitating Christ, I will seek to bring an example of selflessness, love, and charity to my classroom in order to increase my students' overall well being.
How will this be accomplished?
Respect and Relationships One of the myths debunked in Love and Logic is that "students do not have to like their teachers, but they do need to respect them." I truly believe that cultivating professional and meaningful relationships with my students will be essential to my classroom management and teaching. I hope to establish this through offering students choices, modeling respect, and actually making an effort to get to know them as students as well as people.
Below is an attachment to my entire teaching philosophy, which expands upon these concepts.
My personal philosophy of classroom management is to always try to be proactive rather than reactive. This involves giving students choices, creating a respectful and responsible classroom culture, and modeling this behavior. Below is an in-depth look of my plan to accomplish these goals. This is a presentation that I completed with two other pre-service teachers that shows, in detail, how these goals will be accomplished.