My motivation for teaching is giving back to the students the opportunity, motivation and understanding that has been provided to me throughout my own education. I want to help people to have better lives, to help the world to be a better place and I like children. My personal beliefs on education are that every student who comes to school could succeed in life and students has something to teach me. I am a role model to my students and I demonstrate respect, honesty, empathy, responsibility, promptness, and desire for learning. I can nurture a desire for learning in students, I feel that education should be relevant and interesting. Education should incorporate the students’ families and communities when possible. Also, I believe that teachers …show more content…
Also, to prepare classroom for activities, plan, prepare and deliver instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences, develop schemes of work and lesson plans. Then, identify and select different instructional resources and methods to meet students ' varying needs, assign and grade class work, homework, tests and assignments and provide appropriate feedback on work. Lastly, monitor the progress of individual students, maintain accurate and complete records of students ' progress and development, update all necessary records accurately and completely as required by law, district policies and school regulations, manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures, maintain discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school, participate in department and school meetings, parent …show more content…
I believe that there is a body of important knowledge and skills that all students need to know. Schools should provide sound instruction that is aimed at preparing students to live life and comply with society’s accepted standards and need for order. The strategies and methods of teaching I feel are the best is facilitator, or activity style because this style helps students to ask questions, helps develop skills to find answers and solutions through exploration and ideas for teaching a subject. The Challenges of this strategies and method is to interact with students and help them to discovery rather the lecture of the facts and tests are knowledge through memorization. Other strategy, I like is demonstrator, or coach style because variety of formats including lectures, multimedia presentations and
My goal as a teacher is to provide children with a rich environment where they feel safe to explore, initiate learning, and feel free to express their feelings. My personal philosophy is to respect all children and their families’ cultures, ethnicities, race, and beliefs. I treat each child fairly to ensure that all children feel equally special, have families, communities, and educators work as one.
I know that as I grow and learn as a teacher my theory on education will change and grow with me. I know that the best thing that I can bring to the table when it comes to being a teacher is the willingness to learn along with my students on what works best for us in our classroom, what is important to us when it comes to learning, and to change what needs to be change in order to have a positive learning environment for my student. The most important thing as a teacher I will bring with me into my classroom is the unwavering desire to help to guide, shape, and above all foster a love of learning in my
I believe teachers should serve as role models and be the center of a classroom. In order to maintain that students stay on task and are all on the same page, the teacher needs to serve as a guide and direct the students. I do not believe that students learn best in a textbook based setting, but that textbooks are important when referencing material. I believe all students learn differently and look for new ideas or ways to teach lessons and concepts, so that my students can learn as effectively as possible. I also believe that a teacher teaches much more than the subject. It is very important for students in my classroom to something other than the subject that I teach. I want them to learn life skills that will help them in more areas and aspects of their life other than education. I believe my students should strive for hard work, dedication, and integrity, and go beyond learning just the content of a
Education is a very important aspect of our lives. It is our education that makes us who we are and determines what we become. Therefore, education is not something to be taken lightly. As a teacher, my goal will be to provide the best possible education for my students. Every student is unique. I must see students for who they are individually and respect their ideas and opinions. Each student has a different learning style. I must take this into consideration because I want to provide a constructive learning opportunity for every student. I believe that every student has the potential to learn.
I use a variety of teaching styles, but my strongest teaching style is a facilitator style according to Grasha-Riechmann Teaching Style Inventory. My results were as follows: expert-3.375, formal authority-3.75, personal model-3.875, facilitator- 4.625, and delegator-3.5. I really enjoy using questions to build off of students’ prior knowledge. Students are more motivated to work on a project when it truly interest them, so I allow students to pick out their project topics, as long as it is within the means of what we are studying. I provide support with their projects and encourage personal growth and development. A strength of the facilitator style is that it is very student driven. It relies on students’ individual strengths and weaknesses to guide their own learning path. A weakness of a facilitator teaching style is that it is extremely time consuming. Some students may not like the fact that it isn’t a direct approach to teaching. However, I use a variety
It is first important to understand how motivation works in the classroom. There are infinite procedures teachers use to achieve desired effects from their students, but there are general patterns these motivational tools follow. In order for teachers to communicate with their students, they must identify with their needs on an individual basis (Gawel, 1997). This proposal is much akin to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which states five basic needs that must be met in order to achieve full motivation. These needs, in ascending order, are as follows: physiological, security, love and belongingness, esteem and self-respect, and self-actualization (Gawel, 1997). Each of these needs details a very important issue in motivation inside the classroom and out.
My interest in teaching started at a young age. I used to watch my teachers in awe as they were able to find new ways to get their students involved and excited to learn. Their enthusiasm to teach was so inspiring. I would often find myself using that same fervor as I grasped each concept. I, then, was able to relay it to my fellow classmates as a peer tutor. To this day, becoming a teacher is a passion that flows through me. However, my enthusiasm and passion are not the only reasons I would be a good teacher. I aspire to see a student’s ability to grasp the knowledge they never before understood. I aspire to see a student succeed at something they never thought they ever could. I aspire to not only support students with academic skills, but also with life lessons about the value of community, pride in one’s own ethnicity, good citizenship, sportsmanship, and more. I aspire to play a fundamental role in ensuring that all students from all cultures and learning abilities have the opportunity to be guided in a positive learning
What inspired me to teach was moulded by my own experiences of school life. I was fortunate to have teachers who were driven by helping me to achieve and prepare me for wider society. I thoroughly enjoyed my education and thrived in every opportunity that was presented to me from being a Team Leader for younger students, to completing my Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award, to being awarded Head Girl. I have gained leadership skills and been a positive role model. This has further enhanced my ambition to pursue my vocation of teaching. My dedication to Sociology has led me to develop an understanding that is complex and curious of the world; this knowledge I feel can be shared with students so that they too can see society from other perspectives. Through work experience and observations, I realise that teaching can be challenging because of its physical and emotional demands. I want to increase my student’s sociological awareness and trigger the same passion I feel from this subject. The aspects I enjoy most within sociology are psychological and criminological theories, and studies whic...
Teachers experience a tremendous amount of stress, with almost one-third stating that teaching is a ‘very or extremely stressful’ profession (Borg & Riding, 1991; Kyriacou, 2001). Work stress is often cited as a key reason for teachers leaving the profession after only three years (Ingersoll & Smith, 2003). Contributors to work stress include a variety of factors, including role overload, disruptive students, over-demanding parents, lack of support from the school management, poor relationships with colleagues and high-stakes student testing (Kyriacou, 2001; Manthei, Gilmore, Tuck, & Adnair, 1996; Montgomery & Rupp, 2005). It is no secret that teachers with high motivation can help realize the objectives of education, but reforms in the education industry tend to reduce teachers’ autonomy over their work. Educational policies such as establishment of a national curriculum, implementation of packaged curricular materials and development of an accountability system have resulted in teachers having less control over how they should teach in schools (Bowe, Ball, & Gold, 1992; Connell, 1995; Mok, 2003). Teachers’ workloads are also increased without factoring time for their completion. Non-teaching duties like documentation, report writing, after-school activities and school public relations have overshadowed the time available for instructional and educational duties (Ball, 2003; Hargreaves, 2003; Smyth el at., 2000). These bureaucratic reforms placed great demands on work-life balance and erode the sense of identity and commitment, especially when teachers find themselves in the stressful dilemma of having to balance the needs of their families against their career progressions (Fink, 2003; Gardner & Williamson, 2006). Additionally,...
The scope of this study is interaction between teacher and students which focused on motivational strategies. In this study, the writer only focuses on the teaching and learning process. The writer observes the class by recording the class meeting and sees the interaction between the teacher and students. The process of collecting the data will be done for two weeks.
Generally, in my experience, it can be difficult for me to define specific motivational problems, although recognizing it is vastly easier. For example, in 7th period Algebra II, it often strikes me as odd that Brandon P., a highly capable student, seems to be unmotivated during most lessons. From my first impression, regarding schoolwork, I would state that Brandon only seems to be highly motivated to avoid doing work; that is, he devotes more effort into ignoring challenges rather than confronting them. Likewise, his test performance often shows his potential whereas his classroom performance suggests that he is content with barely passing. In class, he displays detrimental behavioral traits, such as talking while Mr. Stromberger is speaking,
The first main reason that I have chosen teaching as a profession is because I believe that it’s continuous rewards will help me to lead a happy and fulfilled life. For example, teaching young children is one of the few jobs in which you can give and receive hugs on a daily basis. Children have an innocence and a passion for knowledge that I find amazing and I do not feel complete unless I am around them. Teaching will help provide this fulfillment for me every day. Also, teaching is a job in which it is ok, and even encouraged, to laugh each and every day. I feel that this is important for a person’s well-being and I think that it helps to keep people young and alive. I feel that in many other professions the day-to-day routine would become monotonous and boring, and I do not think that I would live a truly happy and fulfilled life unless I could be around children. I feel that a classroom provides many unique and dynamic opportunities every single day and I find that very appealing. Also, I am a very relationship-oriented person and I feel that I will enjoy building unique relationships with each child. I plan on knowing every child as thoroughly as possible because I feel that this will help me to be better at my job.
1.Please provide a detailed statement (approximately 1/4 to 1/2 A4 page) outlining your motivation for pursuing a career as a teacher in a NSW public school.
In a classroom, a teaching strategy is a generalized plan for a lesson which includes structure, instructional objectives and an outline of planned tactics, necessary to implement the strategies. Reece and Walker (2002) describe a teaching strategy as a combination of student activities supported by the use of appropriate resources to provide particular learning resources. It is that procedure by which new knowledge is fixed in the minds of students permanently. For this purpose, a teacher does extra activities in the class. These activities help the teacher to take shift from one strategy to another. A method of teaching on the other hand is directly related to the presentation of the lesson. The choice of the teaching method depe...
The choice of teaching strategy or strategies to be used depends largely on the information or skill that is being taught, and it may also be influenced by the learning style, aptitude, skills, and enthusiasm of the students, Teaching strategy may have more than one teaching method used to teach a specific topic, thus a teaching method is defined as “a procedure or way of teaching in accordance with a definite plan, such as lecturing, questioning or discussion. Teaching methods are of utmost importance to a teacher as without one, he or she may rumble on without direction.” (Jacobs M, Vakalisa NCG & Gawe N,2016:213).