MY personal teaching philosophy

 I choose to become a teacher because I have many goals I want to achieve and purposes I want to fulfil. My first goal as a teacher especially in foundation phase is to build the nation by first building its children who are its foundation. I want to reduce illiteracy rate by encouraging people (children) to go to school and stay in school. Teach the nation that the best weapon to fight against poverty is education. My goal will be teaching children for them to get a jump start to their future.

I want to be a teacher who considers it my duty to educate and train learners and feel accountable for it. I want to feel that my learners have been entrusted to me and I should avoid any breach of the trust the community and society has reposed in me. My roles as a teacher will be understanding everyday functions and purposes of being a teacher. I will be an educator who is going to achieve academic growth and able to make appropriate decisions when involved in school decision making, a teacher who understands and be able to design learning programmes.

Learning is a life-long process which should be fun and exciting for the learners to want to engage in it. Learning should not only end in school it should also go beyond schooling as it can happen even at home (as home schooling) parents should also help their children with their school work to improve their learning process and make it easy. Learning is like a chain, and each lesson and study time is a link in the chain. If the learners fail to study or miss a lesson without making up for it, then they break the learning chain and their learning is disrupted.                                                                          Teaching is not only done at school or education institution it can also be done anywhere, where people can be taught and learn about all sort of things. Teaching is a very important process as almost every career or profession there is, it is because of teachers and the teaching that happened. Teaching should not be stressful the teaching environment should also be save to make the teachers feel comfortable so teaching can be successful.

I will play an important role in building the future of the children that I will be teaching. I will help the children to discover and show their talents, I will also help the children to be able to choose the right career paths. I will play an important role in developing the education of my country and reduce corruption that is making the education rate decrease. I will teach concepts essential to the study of all types of English language and writing skills through lessons of grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, word usage, essay writing research and writing for a variety of purposes. Curriculum strategies and lesson plans will support the framework and me to play my role as a teacher.

The role of the learner in the learning and teaching situation should entail the being accountable for his/her work, the learner handing in work in time and making it their responsibility that the work they have done is neat, correct and put all effort necessary to complete it. The learner should respect its teachers and make sure that they also make learning their priority learning and should be prepared to study, so as to be successful in their work they have undertaken. In order for learners to achieve this through the teacher is also responsible for the learning process to a great extent.

I will conduct class according to stated district, school and classroom policies and procedures. Learners will be treated with respect and allowed freedom to learn academically and grow socially. My classroom will reflect an environment where learners are treated equally, fairly and with dignity. I will implement curricular activities which include the utilization of the media centre and the computer lab. I will use a variety of techniques to improve reading comprehension levels, such as timed reading, understanding words in context and identification if topic statements.

My values are education I value education very much as I want to see the children who are also the future of South Africa get educated so they can be better leaders and lead South Africa to  better and equality when it comes to getting education for all. I will be a competent teacher who is able to understand that assessments is an important part of teaching and learning process and know how to integrate it into the process of teaching and learning. I will be a teacher who understands purpose, effects and methods of learning and be able to give feedback to my learners.

My values are that the learners that I am teaching should be able to understand me when I am able to communicate with them in an effective manner. I value safety because I believe that learning should take place in a safe environment in order for it to be successful and for it to produce better results.                                                                                                                     As an educator I will strive to encourage excellence in my learners and myself. I feel that I can encourage learners to seek new knowledge and explore their own ideas by an enthusiastic presentation of both what is, and what is not known about subjects.