Right Vs Might
There are few things that thrill me as much as learning new ideas and stretching the bounds of my knowledge of the world. Throughout my student life, I have always admired teachers because I saw them playing an invaluable role as facilitators in the process of learning.
I believe that students learn the best when they feel comfortable. As a result, I believe that it is important to try to create the kind of classroom where students know I am excited to teach them and an environment in which students feel encouraged to participate. I am genuinely interested in the lives of my students and I try to express this to them. I have found that a child that knows you truly care about them is going to try 100 times harder to get there work done in school . Finally, I know that students have a variety of learning styles and it is important to take this into consideration when planning all of my lessons. I believe that students will retain more of what they learn in a classroom when they have some ownership over their learning. I also believe that critical thinking skills are important to student success and that teaching critical thinking through your classroom content can improve student learning.
My strongest belief is that children learn best through play. The social skills children learn through play are amazing. Playing is a very natural way for children to learn because it uses all of their senses. Playtime is also a cognitive learning exercise where children practice taking in information and organizing it to solve problems and understand their environment.
Children are our future and I believe it is our responsibility as teachers to give these children the best foundation of education as possible so that they have the best chance to succeed in life.
The philosopher I choose to study is Lev Vygotsky. I choose Lev because he believed strongly that through play the children develop abstract meaning separate from the objects in the world which is he believed was...
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