Meet+Your+Techer

=An Introduction From The Teacher =

Educational Philosophy
If I had to put a name of my educational philosophy it would progressivism. With this philosophy I believe that students will be able to understand and decide for themselves when they want to learn something and how using a variety of tools available to them. They can use to standard ones like recourse books, libraries, and other classroom materials. They can also use technology like the Internet, art projects, videos, and computer to express their ideas. In order to understand this philosophy better lets look at it using the metaphor of a tree.

The roots being the main points which student centered learning and curriculum that inertest them. The stump of the tree is the teaching and the braches are how you develop each part of what it takes to teach. One branch is how the teacher acts like facilitator or coach. The next branch is student role as that unique to them and self motivated. Then you have the structure of the learning environment, which is safe for students to take risk interesting to them and encourage democratic principles. The curriculum is based on interactions and what the children see, do, and hear in the classroom. The last is how this in instructed through active engagement and cooperative learning . This is a recording of a story that I believe in central to how i approach teaching it is call The Red Shoe. media type="file" key="podcast

Technology
I believe that the growing use of technology in the classroom will help students to understand the ideas being taught to them. Not all children learn by just listening to a teacher lecture all day long. As a teacher I believe that it is my job to engage my students in learning so that they can relate to the subjects being taught. This includes letting the students use technology to express themselves. This can be anything from making a power point presentation, to even a movie showing something they learned. They can also use games for the computer to master skills like math, reading, and typing.