Teaching Perspectives
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I aspired to become a teacher because of my love for teaching and helping children. It is such a rewarding career that is constantly changing and continually growing. My attributes, goals, and beliefs about teaching are to teach respect for diversity, to think critically, to be conscious of our environment, to challenge one another, to overcome fears, and to succeed in the goals you set for yourself. I believe that teachers' responsibilities to the development of students are to keep students engaged with authentic learning experiences. I value respect for your school community and each other and I believe having high expectations of your students is important in my role as an educator. If you do not expect great things from your students and do not challenge them, you will never know what they are capable of accomplishing. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and work hard to achieve it! As many educators know, all students learn differently and at different developmental stages, therefore I believe it is very important to use a differentiated instructional framework in planning to ensure success for all students. (See my attached Inquiry Paper on this topic below). In addition to differentiated instruction, I believe that educators need to engage in an ongoing deep reflective practice by continually asking questions about their teaching practice and the successes of their students.
After taking the Teaching Perspective Inventory, I scored even in three categories. I learned that I hold views contingent with the developmental, nurturing, and apprenticeship framework. The article "Good Teaching: One Size Fits All?" states that there is a plurality of good teaching and many educators embody more than one framework.
The developmental framework is constructivist in nature and aims to develop increasingly complex ways of reasoning and problem solving. The goal is to change the way learners think by making connections to what they already know through reflection, analysis, and reasoning. Effective teaching in this framework must take the learners' point of view into perspective.
The nurturing framework is focused on learners' achievements as a result their own effort and ability that has been supported by their teacher and peers. In order to allow for confident and self-sufficient learners, a warm, nurturing, safe, and caring environment is an important aspect. A primary responsibility of nurturing teachers is to find a balance between caring for and challenging their students. Nurturing teachers provide encouragement and support, along with clear expectations and reasonable goals for all learners.
The apprenticeship framework believes that learning is facilitated when people work on authentic tasks in real application settings. Vygotsky's 'zone of proximal development' is part of this framework in that teachers need to know what learners can do on their own and what they can do with guided assistance. Teachers need to balance the zones of development with scaffolding of work until learners are ready to become independent workers with more responsibility and less direction from the teacher.
I see myself in all three frameworks and believe that my teaching philosophy embodies many of the viewpoints these perspectives hold.
After taking the Teaching Perspective Inventory, I scored even in three categories. I learned that I hold views contingent with the developmental, nurturing, and apprenticeship framework. The article "Good Teaching: One Size Fits All?" states that there is a plurality of good teaching and many educators embody more than one framework.
The developmental framework is constructivist in nature and aims to develop increasingly complex ways of reasoning and problem solving. The goal is to change the way learners think by making connections to what they already know through reflection, analysis, and reasoning. Effective teaching in this framework must take the learners' point of view into perspective.
The nurturing framework is focused on learners' achievements as a result their own effort and ability that has been supported by their teacher and peers. In order to allow for confident and self-sufficient learners, a warm, nurturing, safe, and caring environment is an important aspect. A primary responsibility of nurturing teachers is to find a balance between caring for and challenging their students. Nurturing teachers provide encouragement and support, along with clear expectations and reasonable goals for all learners.
The apprenticeship framework believes that learning is facilitated when people work on authentic tasks in real application settings. Vygotsky's 'zone of proximal development' is part of this framework in that teachers need to know what learners can do on their own and what they can do with guided assistance. Teachers need to balance the zones of development with scaffolding of work until learners are ready to become independent workers with more responsibility and less direction from the teacher.
I see myself in all three frameworks and believe that my teaching philosophy embodies many of the viewpoints these perspectives hold.
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