My Teaching Philosophy

My Teaching Philosophy


During my short experience, teaching a second language I had acquired a lot of good and bad memories that can show me and teach me now, not how to be a good teacher, howto teach and what strategies I can use to make that my students learn.
To be a teacher means to be a great person, because you are not only teaching a signature or a language, you are teaching aculture, you are teaching a little world that is involved in the learning of a second language. So, for that reason you have to create, imagine and explore new ways to access information and to acquireit in an easy and fast way.
Each day when I must give an English class, the first thing that I am used to do is read the topics, manipulate, simplify and play with them; I try to learn and to teachlike a kid, like the way that a child can see and assimilate the topics that I am trying to teach. If we do not think like children it is complicated trying that they learn or seeing the things in theway that we are seeing at them.
After, it is necessary create strategies to make the English topics easy and funny; it implies to look for resources, materials, information, games, role plays thatallows children have fun, learning the language.
Susan Judd Casciani in her writing about: A Teaching Philosophy Built on Knowledge, Critical Thinking and Curiosity says: “I will demonstrate my owncritical thinking skills and share my curiosity for the unexplained or unexamined. I will value the individual backgrounds and experiences of my students, and encourage them to teach me as I teachthem”. The most important thing is motivate students to learn and create a strong relation where they can learn in the same way that I learn of them.
When you have these resources it is so easy, tomake something like a brainstorming, where you can organize the information, distribute the time for each activity and make worksheets or flashcards.
After, everything that comes is based on the...