Not only do I want to promote a solid sense of friendship among my own students, I wish to expand their thinking and learning to incorporate other students as well. I truly believe that as a teacher, I am able to foster such thinking through how I introduce and collaborate with other teachers on the matter. Therefore, I wish to complete such a notion through encouraging the developing relationships of a mentor and mentee of students. For example, say I am a teacher for the 3rd grade; I want to collaborate with the grade teachers above and below me. By doing so, I will give my 3rd grade students the chance to learn from their older counterparts of 4th graders, and become a mentor and learning buddy to those in the 2nd grade. I find that a non-traditional approach to the traditional sense of grouping students in the same grade/age will be able to promote a new and stronger level of thinking about students. Thus, this is the reason why I want to incorporate this type of thinking into the teaching philosophy of my future …show more content…
Therefore, I am immensely graceful to become to think in depth about the type of philosophy I wish to integrate into my teaching and overall educational mindset as a teacher. Therefore, as you can gather from this paper, my philosophy of education consists of fostering the intrinsic motivation of learning through the relevancy of the academic world, developing a solid learning environment that incorporates a wide range of learning styles, and finally developing the students’ mindset to work with others outside of their own class/age