MY PERSONAL TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My name is Nondumiso Radebe. I am a student at tec Siyabuswa studying for a B Ed for foundation phase programme.

I am going to discuss about my personal teaching philosophy where I will be talking about my goals as a teacher to be. I will be talking about how I am going to make change in the process of teaching and learning. I will be discussing about tasks, roles and competences a teacher to be should have.

First I would like to define personal teaching philosophy as a self-reflective statement of ones beliefs and feelings about teaching and learning. It can also be defined as how a person thinks about teaching as a career.

My goal as a teacher who will be teaching at a foundation phase is to be a caring, accountable, critically reflective and be able to support, nurture learning and development as the Faculty of UJ want me to be. My goal is to teach and produce quality learners. I will be helping the young ones in developing them as they prepare their future. I will manage learning in the classroom. I will do my best to understand and interpret learning programmes.

My goal as a teacher to be is to become a passionate teacher in order to produce clever learners. As my teaching philosophy includes fostering personal interaction, creating original imagination, sharpening critical thinking skills, encouraging independent thoughts, providing real-world in classroom so as to make children think outside the box by looking at the world as a better place.

The roles of a teacher help teachers to have subject knowledge, teaching styles, teaching methodology and knowledge of learning. Teachers have roles and competences that they must fulfil. Teachers mediate learning in a way that it provides needs of the learners.

I see myself as a teacher as I will constantly evaluate the ways in which I teach my learners and also make sure that I accommodate diverse learners in the class. As it known that becoming an effective teacher take time, therefore I will connect with the learners and become friendly so that they will be able to approach me.