Your Teaching Philosophy

As part of this class, we will all write a teaching philosophy of no more than 2-3 pages that illustrates how you envision your teaching and educational functions in digitally-enhanced learning environments. There are no "right answers" for this assignment; I really want you to dig into what forms the foundation of your teaching style, engagement, and growth.

Challenge yourself to write a single narrative rather than a question-response submission so that it more closely mirrors what people submit as part of the application process for teaching positions in higher education. Some things to consider:  

• How do theories of adult learning and/or clinical education support your philosophy? Which ones? 

• What gaps or challenges do you endeavor to be attentive to?

• How are considerations of culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging positioned in your teaching philosophy? 

• What are your big picture goals as it pertains to technology-enhanced education? To what extent do you want to or don't want to embrace technologic applications and advances in your teaching work? Why? 

• How do you envision continuing to learn and develop yourself as an educator (clinical, didactic, or formal presenter, etc.)?

• Please feel free to include any other elements of your teaching philosophy/style that I have not asked about here and that you are interested in deepening in your work.  

This writing will be a part of your portfolio if that is what you choose to create in this class. If not, it can be added as a page to whatever site you create or turned in as a document. Ideally, we can all learn for reading our classmates and colleagues philosophies around teaching with technology. 

Examples? 

An example of a technology teaching philosophy narrative.

And here is another. 

This Teaching Philosophy is from a student in this class last year.

Here is another from a student last year.

This one is from Sunita Iyer from about 4 or 5 years ago