Personal Teaching Philosophy

Reflective practice is crucial in education and becomes the foundation for ongoing growth and development as a professional. By this phase in the student teaching experience, you have analyzed how your teaching performance and practice affect student learning. You now have the opportunity to reflect on how you plan to continue growing in your practice and how to utilize school/district, academic, and personal resources to help you continue to grow as a professional educator.

For this assignment, you will create a transcript for a 2-3 minute video I will produce, describing my role as a teacher candidate who embodies the College of Educations philosophy to learn, lead, and serve.
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n the transcript, include the following:

The ways in which your teaching philosophy has developed and grown throughout student teaching, including examples. Especially consider how teaching has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A description of how technology can be used to create better learning opportunities for all students. Please consider the pandemic and how technology has assisted teachers and students at this time.

Strategies for implementing the Christian worldview values of compassion, promoting human flourishing, and behaving legally and ethically in your future classroom (feel free to add additional Christian worldview values you would like to integrate).

COVID-19

This week I would like for you to talk about how you are doing?  How are you feeling about the whole Covid-19 situation.  How has your life changed over the last month?  How can ethics help you to justify what is going on and the decisions you have to face on a daily basis?

respond

1. Watch the TED talks on technology and identity

Write a response about an aspect of the discussion that engages you. You may talk about multiple texts or just focus on one, but you must integrate a relevant quote and discuss its significance (to engage in analysis).

250-300 words using APA in-text citation style

Read Instructions

Skoric and Poor, as well as Valenzuela et al., discuss the ways in which social media were integral to movements in Singapore and Chile, respectively. In large part, the importance of social media was grounded in the sociopolitical and historical context of those countries.

For your assignment, today, write a 400-word essay that argues how important YOU believe social media is to US-based social movements. What are the advantages of social media here in the US (for social movements)? The limitations? You may use a specific US social movement or talk more generally about contemporary social movements in the U.S. YOU MUST CITE OR QUOTE BOTH ARTICLES TWO TIMES EACH.