User:Aswathy Maria Saju/sandbox

MY PASSION AND MY PHILOSOPHY
My all- time passion in my life is teaching. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. I believe that teacher is the only person in the world who can touch the heart of a child. My decision to pursue a career in teaching is due to my intrinsic desire to make a positive impact on the life of a child. During my journey towards the realization of my dream of becoming a teacher, there have been many people who helped me to establish my career goals and objectives including family members. I am the third-generation teacher in the family and have grown up in an environment in which teaching is considered as a noble profession that can contribute more to the future of the society.

I believe that as teachers, it is our duty to ensure that learning takes place in a safe, open, and supportive environment, so that students learn the important aspects of developing and fostering positive relationship with others. As a teacher, I can build honest, open and respectful relationship with my students, which help to establish a positive discipline climate in the classroom. My teaching style can best be described as one that incorporates a diversity of teaching methodologies and strategies. I am a strong advocate of hands on experience because I believe that supplementing theory with a variety of activities is essential to the learning process. I am also interested in linking knowledge with child’s own experience and his environment which can influence child’s personality. In my opinion, teaching should not be limited to build up knowledge rather it should be able to address issues regarding social significance. As a Science teacher, I understand that learning science should be an active process. I wish students should learn the dynamism of science through keen observation and experimentation which will ultimately lead to the development of scientific temper among students. Science can be taught through various approaches among which constructivist approach was found to be most effective, by me as it is a dynamic and social process in which learners actively construct meaning from their experiences in connection with their prior understandings and the social setting. By collecting information about what goes on in our classroom, and by analysing and evaluating this information helps to make changes and improvements in our teaching. Reflective teaching helps in the professional development, which begins from the classroom. Experience is also a factor which lead to the professional development of a teacher. Assessment is not proper in the present system, as it simply measures the ability of a student to reproduce answers. Students vary in their learning style and learning needs. Hence, I realize the importance of adopting diverse instructional strategies and consequently the use of multiple assessment techniques that could appropriately address different learning styles in a normal classroom. I am committed to work hard and spend as much time as necessary to make my students successful both at school and in life. I believe that W.B. Yeats captured the exhilaration of teaching when he wrote: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” My goal as a teacher is to instil a passion for learning within my students in an educational environment that is positive and encouraging. I hope to provide the skills and tools necessary for success and foster the individual talents of each student thus giving them the confidence to embrace their dreams and make them a reality.