teaching philospohy and curriculum

I think a teacher’s choices and philosophy makes huge impacts on how they plan their classroom and curriculum. It is up to the teacher whether to teach traditionally or in a more contemporary and inventive way, using new pedagogy. This decision obviously impacts the classroom from the get go. The way the teacher runs a classroom also affects the students immensely, in respect to how they learn. It is up to the teacher, what teaching styles they use and what methods or strategies they adhere to. Personally, I feel that in order to make a classroom the best that it can possible be, a teacher needs to incorporate a little bit of everything. For instance, in my classroom I would like to use apply Gardner’s styles of learning, Krashen’s theory, desuggestopedia, etc. I also think it is important to have a balance between teacher centered instruction and student centered instruction. Regardless of the teacher’s philosophy, I think that they should model as often as possible and use manipulatives when appropriate. I found that both of these things are beneficial to all students, regardless if they are ELL’s, or have any learning disabilities. Overall, I believe that a teacher should adapt their teaching style to their classroom and their students~ This means that as a teacher you need to be flexible, because you must keep your students’ interests first- if this means teaching more inventively or more traditionally, you must adapt. I also think that a teacher’s attitude has a lot to do with their teaching style~ students can pick up on this attitude, so regardless of how you teach, I think that it is important that you are passionate about it.

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