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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

If we simply took this philosophy of teaching and moved ahead into practice, I would imagine that through higher education our college and university classrooms would be much different. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it.

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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

If we simply took this philosophy of teaching and moved ahead into practice, I would imagine that through higher education our college and university classrooms would be much different. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it.

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Feedback as a Dialogue 

Faculty Focus

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. So, I facilitated peer-to-peer workshops.

Feedback 111
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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses.

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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

Edsurge

In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. Many teachers talked about incorporating more relationship-building activities and providing more positive feedback to their students. The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Based on your experience, come up with a short paragraph that describes your philosophy of teaching. Upload a full lesson plan that is typical of what you teach in classes. Videos of you teaching. Here’s my profile.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

Ask a Tech Teacher

Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Based on your experience, come up with a short paragraph that describes your philosophy of teaching. Upload a full lesson plan that is typical of what you teach in classes. Videos of you teaching. Here’s my profile.