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Exploring Your Own Conceptions of Teaching and Learning

Writing your own teaching philosophy statement

According to the McGraw Centre for Teaching and Learning at Princetown University:

"Developing a teaching philosophy statement allows you to reflect on and articulate your beliefs and practices as a teacher. The most meaningful statements of teaching philosophy identify sophisticated goals for teaching and describe varied methods for meeting them. They consider the relationship between teaching content and teaching skills and demonstrate an understanding of student learning. At their best, they are intellectually revealing; rather than simply describe your teaching experience, they demonstrate how you think about your teaching.

http://www.princeton.edu/mcgraw/library/for-grad-students/teaching-statement

Many people have found that Exercise 1 (below), is a useful starting point for the reflection necessary to produce an effective teaching philosophy statement. It is also useful for generating text that may later be incorporated in such a statement.


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Exercise 1.

Consider the following incomplete statements and attempt to complete them.
  • My main goal as a teacher of <html><input type="text"/></html>
    is to <html><input type="text"/></html>
  • The relationship I try to achieve with my students is <html><input type="text"/></html>
  • The most important thing that I expect
    of my students is <html><input type="text"/></html>
  • I know a teaching session has been successful when <html><input type="text"/></html>
  • The values that I seek to impart to my students are <html><input type="text"/></html>
  • Effective teaching is <html><input type="text"/></html>


Having completed the above, begin to combine the statements to form an initial philosophy statement.
[Cut and paste the relevant statements into the box below and expand and or provide linking text to each]: <html> <textarea rows="6" cols="15"></textarea> </html>


Exercise 2

Now take the best one or two of your completed statements and post them in the group pages that can be accessed by clicking here. This will open in a new window. Once you close this new window you will find yourself back here.



Submit your answers

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<input type="submit" value="Save Your Answers and Continue" />

</html>

<html> </form> </html>


Back to Teaching Philosophy StatementContinue to Exercise 3

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