PHILOSOPHY

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

When it comes to education, I think the best way to learn is to experience new things actively. The best teachers I have ever had were people who had experienced a great number of careers, traveled, and interacted with diverse groups of people.  These teachers had experienced life and learned a lot about the world, which they naturally imparted in their lessons.  As a teacher, I want to impart that same experience, but also require my students to learn actively as I had.  As teachers, it is our responsibility to not only present new information, but require students to discuss, debate, and practice new ideas and concepts.  Students can learn actively also by doing creative projects and presentations.  

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Additionally, as a teacher interested in history and social studies, I want to ensure that my classroom is an inclusive one.  Social structures and inequalities that exist today are linked to the past, and by exploring issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in the past, we allow students to understand them and their inequalities today.  It is incredibly important to me that my curricula reflects mine and society's commitment to diversity and equality, and that it allows students to question history and social orders.  Education has long been called 'the great equalizer' in America, and my classroom will definitely uphold this moniker. 

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