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THE 5 W’S OF BEING A TEACHER
EDC 415 Dr. Kern
Patrick Kearns
WHO AM I?
• I have had a love for history since I was a young boy due to my curiosity fueled by vaulting ambition.
• I really enjoy learning about cultures and traveling.
• I have a love for the ocean and the beach and my job requires me to teach beach safety seminars to large crowds of people for extended amounts of time as well as manage people and enforce regulations and ordinances.
WHO AM I (CONT..)
I am getting a B.A. in history.
I am getting a B.A. in secondary education.
I am working on becoming bilingual in Spanish.
I am considering getting my Masters in special
education as well history.
WHY DO I WANT TO BECOME A TEACHER?
I really enjoy talking and being a leader and I am
not afraid of public speaking. If I were to give the
same speech in front of two people or 20,000 people
nothing would change.
I believe the purpose of the life is a life of purpose
and that there is no better way to achieve that then
inspiring young minds for the better on a daily basis.
BECOME A TEACHER (CONT..)
I exert creativity on a daily basis and I wish to refine
my creativity into the classroom.
I feel teaching exemplifies my personality.
WHAT IS MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
I want to engage my students in the classroom by making
history exciting and relevant by creating exciting activities.
Most students do not care for history because they have
had bad teachers in the past that are not excited about the
topic they are teaching. I would like to change that.
I want to show students the importance of history and how
it has impacted humanity during their lifetime and prior to
them being alive.
PHILOSOPHY (CONT..)
The classroom management approaches I will
mainly be using in the classroom are authoritarian,
humanistic, and behavioral.
I will be authoritarian because I would like to
establish to the class that although the classroom is
“ours,” I am in control and there are a clear set of
rules that need to be followed.
PHILOSOPHY (CONT..)
I will also use a humanistic approach because I feel
a lot of times students act out for a specific reason. It
is best to understand why the students act out and
try and understand them better to have more
efficiency in the classroom. It also shows them that
the teacher truly cares about them which will make
the students give the teacher more respect.
PHILOSOPHY (CONT..)
The last approach I will use is the behavioristic
approach and I will show this will a clear set of rules that
will let the students know that if they act out there will be
consequences. There will also be a clear set of rewards
for behaving properly like homework passes and allowing
students extra credit points. This will give the students
an incentive to behave well and work hard in class.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
The essential rules of the class are for the students to do their work
on time and properly, to be prepared for class, and to behave properly
in class.
Failure to obey these rules will result in consequences beginning with
a verbal warning and escalating to a call home and eventually
detention and a meeting with the principle.
If a student behaves very consistently they will get verbal praise and
eventually they will have the opportunity of earning a free homework
pass and extra credit points for consistently doing their work efficiently.
THEORIES I FIND IMPORTANT
Bandura’s “Social Learning Theory”
Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”
Skinner’s “Operant Conditioning”
Canter’s “Assertive Discipline Theory”
Glasser’s “Choice Theory”
Kounin’s “With-it-Ness”
Piaget’s “Stages of Cognitive Development”
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