Providing
the best learning experience for every child under my care is extremely
important to me. Quality education for every child, to me, has many components.
Excellent teaching practice allows for a range of backgrounds, abilities,
learning styles and personalities. Planning a program that gives children a
choice of learning styles, accounts for their prior knowledge and targets their
current needs requires hard work and an intimate knowledge of each individual.
This is what I strive for in my classroom.
A
constructivist curriculum, that truly considers the whole child, is a vital
structure to support teachers. I hold strongly to the belief that acknowledging
and valuing children's current understandings, providing authentic and concrete
inquiry experiences and allowing children to take real action on what they have
discovered is the essence of creating life long learners. It also provides an
excellent vehicle for helping children develop the attitudes and skills we hope
for tomorrow's citizens in an authentic and meaningful manner.
In
short, inquiry, that is well planned and well facilitated, allows children to
develop much deeper cross disciplinary understandings, not only of key learning
areas, but also connections to the greater world around them. In the digital age, this is a critical tool, when
dealing with the ever increasing body of knowledge that will confront our
students in the future. Through
acknowledging past experiences and current knowledge the spirit of
internationalism is also valued. On a personal level I am excited and inspired to
be a teacher that incorporates this educational philosophy for the betterment
of my students.
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