Kudos to you!

I think a lot of my teaching philosophy comes from the confidence I radiate out towards my students. I got that confidence from my mother and several of my early elementary teachers.

As a new teacher, I have the knowledge and skills to my classroom a technology advanced place to learn. I use computers for computer, language arts, and math skills, a listening center for my students to listen and follow along to books on CD, and LEAP pads for them to work on any educational skill imaginable. Not only are my students exposed to the technology, but they are taught to respect the equipment.

I also have an LCD screen in which I use to play united streaming clips. If my kids want to know what a chick looks like hatching from an egg, I can instantly pull it up and take a few seconds to show them the visual.

Also, when I doing language arts and I come across a word that looks funny, I google it in front of my skills. A parent came up to me to compliment how their child said I googled something for them. At first I was embarrassed that I looked incompetent, but the parent reassured that they appreciated the point that I was teaching their child that they can always problem solve and seek out an answer to what they do not know.

Socially, each of my students were used to tattle-taleing. When a child comes up to me starting to say something about another student, my answer always is, “Did you talk to them about it?” Also, I remind the students that I am not always going to be around to stick up for them and that they should be open about their feelings to the person that is bothering them. Over the course of the year I was quite impressed to see how my students took what I taught to heart and were discussing their problems with each other.

As a teacher at a Private School, I see most students with a busy schedule i.e. swim lessons, dance lessons, t-ball, soccer, gymnastics, ballet, piano, karate, and tap. Sometimes parents are so focused on an extra curricular activities, that they ignore character building activities such as the Girl Scouts. Because of this, I believe that it is my job as an educator to develop the whole child.

I am lucky because I get my children early on. Although its my first year teaching, I am blown away at the results that I am seen in the whole-child development of my class. I am proud to send each one of my kids on to the next grade, knowing that they can be an independent thinker and are confident in themselves.