My Teaching Philosophy

    My ambition want to be a great teacher but I always think how GREAT I want to be???? Who’s my mentor? What’s I must achieve before teaching my student? If I want my student excellent, I must excellent first. I must be their role model, because as a student, they spend half from their time in school per day. Actually I have my own role model at my secondary school. My ‘Bahasa Malaysia’  teacher’s. She is a fierce teacher but may be from her experience   she needs to be like that. From that she had proceeded excellent student. Now, I think why my teacher so fierce. The only one she wants her student to be a great person for their future.

     Actually, I wrote my initial philosophy while taking education course at UPSI. Although my philosophy on teaching changed, some things have remained the same. These changed are due to the experience and learning process how to be a teacher. Community always say teacher is a easier career. Going to school, teaching process and coming back, working half day, so many school holiday but they never put themselves on the responsibility as a teacher. How easier they can? Actually, as a teacher not easier like a word. The responsibility on their shoulder too valuable. Always thinks how to overcome students problem not only one class but  each student, times with two or three classes the teacher needs to handle. Thus, why I want to be a teacher if I know it’s not the easier work???

     The only one I love teaching. I want to teach all background of students at urban area and also rural area. I know the challenge of course too much difference but all that depending on me how to face it. As a teacher I need to prepared and passion, regardless of my subject of interest, I should be passionate about my future profession as well as organized and skilled in the art of teaching.

     Teaching, in my mind, is about making a difference in the lives of others. My goal as a science teacher is not to make biologists, astronauts, or doctors out of each and every one of my students, or to create them in my image, rather, it is to help them realize their own potential through the learning and modeling that will go on inside and outside my classroom. I hope to nurture the critical, imaginative thinking and working skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives. In my classroom, students will learn to respect and appreciate nature and science, and they will see the world around them slightly differently than how they did before being in my class. This learning and modeling will take many distinct shapes and forms, but in the end I hope my students will leave my classroom feeling good about themselves feeling like they have learned something a new fact, a new idea, a new question.

     I want all of my students to feel that they can learn and do science. This is a challenging goal of mine as a science teacher, and in order to accomplish this, I believe the most important personal characteristic I can have is to be supportive of all my students, to show that I am interested in their lives as well as their education.I hope to be a genuine teacher, real, and embracing of all my students. So long as my students feel that I care for them as individuals, they will feel good about themselves and about their potential to learn and do science. Personal relationships with my students will be very important, and I will be human and caring while modeling the skills and the application of knowledge and thinking that I wish they too will cultivate.

     As a science teacher, I will be committed to lifelong learning and will attempt to instill a desire and appreciation for learning in my students. I will demonstrate an innate desire to learn, to examine, and grow as a person. I will not only have an undying respect for my profession as a teacher, but I will also respect and be moved by the subject I teach. Because I already have a passion for the natural sciences, this should be evident in my enthusiasm for all subjects. I will show that I have a great desire to teach, explore, promote lifelong learning, to inquire, and to try new things. I will involve my students as much as possible in concrete, active learning experiences.

     As a science teacher I will demonstrate mastery of the content I teach, constantly study my field, and I will cultivate the high verbal and conceptual abilities required to teach it. I will give and take judiciously, observe my students carefully, monitor their progress, their strengths and weaknesses, and contribute to their personal growth.

     I also believe it is important to recognize my students for their accomplishments while encouraging further exploration and setting high academic standards for them. I will be innovative and creative, and flexible enough to try (as well as learn) new things with my students every day. I hope to be a leader as well as a team player with my students. Science is a field where team effort is crucial all scientists collaborate with one another therefore the practice of efficient group work is one that I will always work on improving with my students.

     Teaching young students to think is difficult teaching them to think like scientists is ever more challenging. However, it can be done. With the right experiences, the right attitudes, and an organized, paced determination, students can leave the science classroom feeling loved, feeling like young explorers and young scientists, feeling like they are learning to learn, to inquire, and most importantly to become responsible, hard working members of our society.