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☻My teaching
philosophy starts by believing that students have the right to succeed,
and that my job is to help them accomplished this goal. I believe every
student, has every person in the world is unique and special, and that
each one of us learns in different ways, has different styles of
intelligence, and different strength and weakness. I believe we can
complete any task if is given in a realistic, understanding and up to
each one of our abilities, but I also believe in challenge. ☻To make sure my
students can succeed I display their work for all to see, I use many
different learning and teaching styles, Cooperative Learning,
Differentiated Learning, Project Base Assessment, Direct Approach,
Students' Individualized Contracts, Rubrics, Technology, TPR, Student
Centered Activities, Group Tournament, and more. ☻I believe students learn best when the are in
a safe, comfortable and warm atmosphere. They learn best when they
"belong" and when they have the opportunity to be empower. ☻I believe students learn best when they are in charge, responsible for their
acts, and are giving, and expected from them, higher standards and
respect. ☻They work better
when they can create, have hands on activities, games, movement, music
and a full stomach. I allow my students to move in their seat, eat if
they are hungry, or drink if they are thirsty. Freedom is a privilege.
Non-harassment is a must. ☻I believe in
giving but I also believe in expectations, and to receive work from
their part when is requested. ☻I combine the
teaching of Spanish across the curriculum, and involve the community in
my classroom. ☻But most of all
I believe I am more than a Spanish teachers for any of my students, if
they need it. I can be the mom, the friend, the counsel, the
disciplinary or just an open ear for their troubles. ☻I believe that
"The purpose of assessment is to help kids learn, not as a
punishment". My grading philosophy is connected or derived from my
teaching philosophy. I believe students are learning all the time and
that they aim to do better, maybe I am an optimist, but I try to see
each of my students as an individual competing against his/herself.
Grading should be about individual growth and development, not an
average, a fix scale or punishment for discipline or behavior problems.
I grade my students for completing different activities from worksheets,
skits, drawings, music, participation, written assignments, research,
games, effort to homework (which is generally memorization of words, so
they will be able to talk). "Learning consist of doing and
reflecting" Growth it is not possible unless the student can
internalize previous experiences and gain insight that provides the
possibility for change or self -improvement. ☻Effort is a
"must" for my grading and it is related to differentiation. I
emphasis the importance of learning for the porpoise of acquiring
knowledge and not for the "A". To be able to use
"effort" as part of my grading I MUST KNOW what each of the
students is able to do and pay extra attention to their individual
growth. ☻I believe in the students' will to become life long learners, and expand their knowledge in anything they desire, just like any of us did.
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