For my educational philosophy, I believe that we should shape minds by knowing who the person is and them individually. I can take the time from when I was in school and take those lessons I learned to teach my students. From what I have learned from when we were one room classroom schools to now is that we have grown in the ways we teach. We have grown when it comes to how much we learn in one year to how we are growing as people.
Based on my personal experience, I had a great teacher in high school that made history more fun, instead of tests we had immersions and although there were slideshows he went through he made them actually quite interesting. As I become a teacher I hope I can be like him and make my topics interesting to my future students. I often found myself getting off task during Covid. The computers didn’t help much and instead made me want to do other things during my day. Learning in general became a very difficult task to complete. For the most part everyone was looking at a screen all day watching their teacher try to teach them, this was extremely challenging especially when the topic wasn’t interesting. With a great teacher though we can make these topics interesting and I hope to one day help other students find an interest in what I find interesting. Even if you don’t find the topic interesting there is always a way to change someone’s mind. Knowing your students individually helps as well because you will help make the object of learning easier on them by helping them learn in a way that supports them. By being this teacher I hope more teachers will follow and truly know what their students need.
Overall, my education was a little rocky and definitely had ups and downs but I hope to be the teacher that brings the ups to my students’ days. With my philosophy of making the topics more interesting and knowing what helps my students individually, I hope to help them through those tough times.