Teaching Philosophy

What do I believe about teaching and learning foreign languages?

In my teaching philosophy for the methods course, I was optimistic about using the SOMOS curriculum and the comprehensible input method techniques. I hadn't used it yet but I was optimistic and a little naive in thinking that it would be some kind of miracle answer to all the questions I had and solve all the problems I had. Once I started actually using it, I found that my students felt detached from the language and that they weren't using it to speak barely at all. They could produce beautiful written work but they wouldn't speak in the target language and that was a problem that I explored in my practicum.

In the program development course, after my practicum, I revised and mostly rewrote my teaching philosophy to reflect that I was creating a curriculum of my own to address problems that I found as I tried to teach in the comprehensible input techniques. I am happy with how that turned out and actually presented it during my interview with the new district I will be working for in the fall but I may make some minor changes also to say that I have finished the process of creating a curriculum... maybe a few lines to say something about my future goals toward leading a department which I discovered I wanted to do after taking the program development course.

I'm still considering how that might fit in.

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Beginning Teaching Philosophy

Current Teaching Philosophy