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.
