Teaching Philosophy Reflection

However, teachers play various roles in the classroom to create learning environment they are always in search of their professional development. As a result, they use various methods, strategies, techniques, classroom interventions, proper feedback to inspire and encourage learners in learning process.

When I reflect back to my school days, I was very poor on study basically, in English. In my school life, I never spoke English for interaction and discussion even in English period. Even after completing SLC level, I faced difficulty in sharing knowledge, information, and ideas in English in 10+2 level. However, my English teacher insisted me to speak in English with him but it was the terrible event for me to speak in English language. He

I knew that we students need to understand actions and activities related to learning that made me think about teachers' behaviors. This incident made me conscious on teacher's nonverbal behaviors such as eye contact, body movement, gestures, tone and so on. Then, I started to notice teachers' nonverbal behaviors. When I tried to communicate with teachers, he used to encourage me through facial expressions and eye contact. Sometimes, I felt some nonverbal behaviors distract learning too. When I began to care about teacher's nonverbal behaviors, I felt I was motivated in my study which helped me to complete my high school degree. It made me know about nonverbal behaviors and their influence in English language

I believe that teachers' nonverbal behaviors represent teachers' expressions, activities, attitudes, techniques, and actions without verbal communication towards the students in teaching and learning process. In this regard, Shuell (1996, as cited in Al-Dhafiri, 2015) states that learning doesnot take palce if students do not involve in perceiving information and knowledge in educational setting. I also agree that learning process depends upon students' perceptions and interpretation. Moreover, it can be said that there will be effective learning of language if there is active participation of both students and teachers. If students perceive teachers and their behaviors with positive intention, they can gain more knowledge and information in the