STUDENT NO: 201463425

SITHOLE S.P

MY PERSONAL TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My name is SP Sithole a first year student at UJ Siyabuswa campus and doing Bed foundation phase, and am going to be a caring and critical reflective teacher

My teaching philosophy is to prepare children for the time when they have to go out on their own and make a living of what they had during their childhood.

My teaching philosophy is self-reflective of my belief about teaching and learning. My teaching will focus on each individual needs child and their educational needs. My strategy is to help the children to achieve their highest potential, I will also be parental involvement in the children mental, physical and emotional development. I will accept the challenges of being a parent, friend and a counsellor to the kids that I will be teaching.

I will learn to know the uniqueness of each student with his or her unique educational needs, I will be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each learner through continuous assessment and observations, then once the strengths are recognised I will work together with the child and challenge them and the weaknesses we will take care of them to meet these challenges. I will express my opinions and desires strongly and with confident in order to motivate the children and have the sense of understanding of the difficulties they come across with.

I believe that children are unique individuals and they deserve to be treated with care, love, and affection in a safe environment, the teaching and learning progress individuals is suited in learning.to facilitate the process of learning by leading discussions.

My role as a foundation phase teacher is to look the best of the kids and to raise them so that they can become professionals and pioneers for the society. I will give them love, respect, care, lead, instruct and to try to form a safe and pleasant environment to them. Hence I believe that teachers are the second best mothers for the learners, because they spend lot of time with them at the same time I believe a real teacher becomes through many years of training in the field of being a teacher, the same way mothers are not born being great mothers but as their experiences with their kids expand they become experts on the field, so I believe that I will become the great teacher hence am also training to become the best teacher that I want to become and the caring teacher hence I will be the foundation phase teacher.

So as a perfect qualified teacher I will know to set up rules in the classroom that will make me to be able to control the classroom. I will be involve with the learners, it will be the way to of showing my concern about what the learners are feeling, I will get the learners involve in the classroom by asking them questions hence this will be the way of involving the shy learners who would love to participate in the classroom, and to encourage them so that they can benefit.

I will create a warm and protective environment but at the same time professionals hence if children feel secure in the classroom the results will be good and a good star could be a mutual trust with each learner, and as the teacher I have the responsibility of knowing all my learners in the classroom.

Schools are the first places where kid’s behaviour and future educational success is shaped, so as a future teacher I will carry either positive or negative behaviour towards learners. I love my career so I will be able to pass enthusiasm to assist and to provide warm environment to the learners, I will care for children more than I do with the money so what is going on in ma learners lives will also be part of my life, being a life-long learner and enjoying helping others to the greater success.

An understanding of how learners will learn and the concern for learners to learn and begin with a recognition that all learners has their own learning needs and bringing their knowledge and resources to the learning process, I will work with them in order to empower them and enable them to develop greater capability and competences in their personal and professional lives.

The role of the learner it is very important hence without them there won’t be teachers so they need to involve themselves in class activities, and they must support the teaching and learning.

 I commit myself to work with them and focuses on their equal opportunities irrespective of disabilities, religions, sexual orientation, race or gender, so everything that I will do will be informed by equal opportunities legislation by a knowledge of the best practice.

I will reflect on my intentions and actions and on the effects of my actions as a reflection on professional practice. Goo teaching cannot happen without learners learning, so as a teacher I have to engage all my learners by involving them while am teaching by asking them questions so that will make them to participate and when you are participating it become easier to understand and it will also be the other way of involving those shy students who are shy or afraid to ask questions in the classroom when they do not understand.

I am going to make a huge difference in our country, I will pass my knowledge to the next generation.