“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”

– Chinese Proverbs

When I was still studying, I wanted my teachers to provide me with the information and I would just listen. I didn't want them to hold on since I just wanted to focus on what they were teaching. It is because when they begin asking questions, my mind is preoccupied with figuring out the response rather than listening. That's why, as soon as I became an intern, I realized that teaching from a book and asking students questions without knowing them or their basic knowledge demonstrates ineffective teaching. I believe that you will only be a great teacher if we teach them skills that they can use outside of school, such as how to help students in college, how to be a lifelong learner, and how to prepare the students to be more successful in life. That's why It is important for me to get to know the students first before providing them stimulating tasks through observation, assessment, one-on-one conferring, and feedback from their parents in order to know not just who they are, but also what their weaknesses are and how they may improve.

Everyone is intelligent in their own distinct way. From Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences, there is excellence in the arts, in dance, singing, and much more. As a teacher, I must create activities that focus on the human senses, so that all students pay attention to be taught and reach their full potential. It is not a good idea to provide a repetitive activity that focuses on only one skill. Regardless of their differences, children must be given equal opportunities to reach their full potential.

I also believe in Lev Vygotsky's Social Interaction Theory, which states that children learn by their interactions with others, particularly their peers and friends. It's the same thing I constantly hear from my classmates, that when ma'am is teaching, I don't understand a thing she says, but when my classmate explains it to me, I understand exactly what she means. This demonstrated that the child learns more from other people than from us. As a result, having collaborative and cooperative activities that will assist them to improve is important such as they will improve their communication abilities and listening skills.

As a teacher, one of the qualities I must have is patience. Because learning takes time, you will not only teach it once, but many times in the case of teaching. I can also say that teachers are good when they make the hardest subject into the easiest one. Just like me, I'm not confident to teach and share the ideas I have if it is not clear to me because how can I share it with them that even though I'm a teacher I can't understand it, how much more if they are still students in the elementary.

Above all the things I believe, I also believe that teachers are more effective if they produce students that are good citizens such as they are nice, kind, know how to take care of each other, promote peace and order, and much more. In this way, it shows students to students, students to teacher has good relations to one another.

These are my teaching philosophies that don't focus on what I have observed and learned during my teaching internship; rather, I remember some aspects and strategies that my greatest teachers had where it helps and inspired me to have my own teaching philosophy.