Friday, 21 March 2014
My Reflection on my beliefs about teaching!
“What
is teaching?” I believe that teaching is the transfer of knowledge and skills,
morals and values from one person to another, either formally or informally,
directly or indirectly. There are many qualities of being a good teacher such
as understanding, patient, approachable, hardworking, creative and diligent. I
believe that learning is an active, life-long process or experience of gaining
knowledge and skills. In agreement to Bloom's Taxonomy, there are three
domains of learning: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor. I believe that
teaching should not be an indoctrinating process. Teaching and learning in
educational institution especially, should be an approaching and tempting
process for both the teachers and the students.
Being an effective teacher, I believe, should be
very well organized, fit a lecture or teach according to the audience/class, be
enthusiastic and realistic and ensure that the objective is completed at the
end of the session/class. Having discussion, helps in clearing and building a perspective
to what is being taught.
I also
believe that when developing learning strategies, teachers and students should
be able to talk and listen, read, write, and reflect as they approach course
content through problem-solving exercises, informal small groups, simulations,
case studies, role playing, and other activities; all of which
require students to apply what they are learning. Incorporate technology, for computer
literacy, has become a strategy in almost every student life, and plays an
important part of their education
This
journal embarks the journey I will take on becoming a qualified, successful
teacher. It will help me in discovering who I really am as a teacher in
training and also as an individual. In this process, my beliefs about teaching,
learning, effective teaching and learning strategies are also to be enhanced.
Thus far after completing my first semester of the
Bachelor of Education course, one of the major domains I’ve learned is the
responsibility of becoming a teacher. This is because the students that I
teach, will be the produce of what I will sow, and my objective of becoming a
teacher, is to make a positive impact as much as possible to the children of
tomorrow.
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