The heart of my philosophy is that I want to be an involved teacher with a referent authority base, mixed with the type of educator whom is based in the collaborative theory of teacher influence. For me this combination is all about being sincerely interested in your students and empowering them to have ownership of their experiences within the classroom. At this time in my internship, I can say that my students definitely do know that I care about them. We talk about their weekend and things that they’ve done when I wasn’t in the classroom. I get and give hugs, and often field the question “why can’t you come here every day”. So, I do feel as though the “involved teacher” column can receive a big ole check mark. Outside of community building, a lot of my actions in the classroom center around process oriented feedback. Kindergartners …show more content…
There are a lot of routines and information that these first time students need to absorb as they start their academic careers. By using process oriented feedback in the classroom, coupled with a good dose of encouragement, we are teaching our students that it is okay to make mistakes and that effort you make to reach the answer is more important than the result. For these students believing that they can do it, is the first step. So, I think that my being there to give the type of feedback that positons students to have an open mindset will help them meet the objectives set for them this year, at the very least it will make them feel like trying! I am really comfortable with saying that my being in the classroom has a positive impact on the students, but the alignment between my philosophy and my enactment is a work in progress. There are aspects of it, which I have been able to enact well inside the classroom, however, there is an area where I really seem to fall