Students and teachers are life-long learners
My philosophy on education is student oriented. My primary responsibility as an educator is to support the intellectual and emotional growth of all of my students. By providing an appropriate learning environment, I provide students the opportunity for them to grow and learn.
I believe that students learn through constructing their own knowledge, and through constructing knowledge with their peers. As their teacher, my role is not to provide students with my own knowledge, but to guide them in constructing their own knowledge, and to make sense of the content in their own way. In order to provide students with this opportunity, and in keeping with evidence-based teaching practices, I support active learning classrooms that encourage student discourse and critical thinking.
In order for students to effectively learn in an active learning classroom, students must feel comfortable and safe in the classroom. Students in my classroom are encouraged to speak up when they do not understand something. Students are encouraged to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. My goal is to establish a learning environment in which students are invited to learn without fear of feeling self-doubt in their ability to learn the material.
Everyone in my classroom is a mathematician.