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Teaching Philosophy

I strongly believe that everyone has room for growth and can continue to reach their potential. This is especially true in the ELA classroom. By expanding student knowledge and understanding of different reading and writing skills and standards, students will be able to find their strengths and weaknesses and work towards a mastery in as many of these skills as they can. Middle School is a vital part of a child’s education. As such, I believe that pushing students to do their best in the classroom will benefit them to realize their own potential and dreams and begin to work towards reaching them.

When I teach, I find myself emulating the qualities that my favorite teachers demonstrated in front of the classroom. I try to foster a supportive classroom environment that promotes growth and student-centered discussion like my English teachers did when I was growing up. I try to do everything that I can do to help that one student who struggles paying attention to focus and be engaged by using differentiated instruction to find out how that particular student learns best, similar to how my second grade teacher helped me. As a teacher, I am able to absorb even more positive methods and attitudes to help students develop further. Teaching is a collaborative effort. This is one reason that I am excited to work with other teachers in my building; I am able to see and embrace various techniques in my own instruction.

I believe that one responsibility of being a teacher is to help students figure out their strengths and weaknesses and to help them further develop any passions that they may have in life. I had a similar experience when I was in 11^th grade. Through my teacher’s guidance in writing my college essay, he was able to show me the writing skills that I didn’t even know I had. He helped me uncover and develop a passion that I had no idea at the time that I would pursue. That is the kind of teacher I try to be; the type of person that I try to be. I always try to be there for my students to help them realize their potential and I want to be able to push them to better themselves just like my teachers did for me.

J.R.R. Tolkien said, “True education is a kind of never ending story – a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.” Teaching is a journey. The path to becoming an educator does not stop once you stand in front of a class and start teaching; the learning never ends.