Educational Philosophy

 My Philosophy of education includes making a loving, welcome, and safe learning environment for my students. I will have a plan set in place on the first day of school that introduces classroom procedures from the start. Without having a plan on how I want the year to go, I might as well set myself up for failure. I do not want that, I want to set the class up for success and by doing that my students and I will both have a great year. I will set up my room to be welcoming and culturally diverse. I will be accepting and inviting to every student who walks in my door. When students feel welcome and know they are wanted in the classroom they are more likely to want to follow the rules of the classroom, and less likely they are to give major problems. I will be consistent in order to build trust within my students. Without trust it opens the door for misbehavior in the classroom. I will allow my student’s to help create a social contract or rules that we will all agree upon and sign as a class. I will greet my students everyday to let them know that I am happy and thankful that they are in my class every single day. I will give them my undivided attention leaving home stress at the door. I will dress to impress to ensure that my students know that I respect myself as well as respecting them. I will inform my students that we are all human and will make mistakes. I will admit to my own mistakes. I will stay positive even when I am angry and will do my best to share nothing but positive energy to my students. I will focus on the kids needs and provide them with my undivided attention when they need my help. I will respect my students as I will ask them to do the same for me. I will have a seating chart to prevent trouble makers from sitting in the back together, and I will encourage all students to participate in the events for the day. I will have a discipline plan with step based consequences that get bigger as the misbehavior continues. The goal will be to prevent the misbehavior from happening in the first place. By putting all my goals listed together, I truly believe I have set my classroom up for success.