Teaching Phylosophy

My Values and Beliefs

There are some important values in my professional career. One of the most important value is to persevere in learning process. I have to be active, autonomy, curious about educational context, observing what is going on around my students and me. In my opinion is very much appropriate to trace personal and professional goals. One of mine is to improve my English performance and teaching strategies. Any language is always changing, new words and expressions appear and disappear constantly so I need to keep walking, researching and enhancing my own language knowledge and obviously the teaching learning process in communication. The main goal is to be able to interact with people from all over the world. When I think about my professional goals, I always think about my classes. To be a teacher is a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Many students are in “teacher’s hand” and the teacher can do them believe and develop themselves or can do them give up. Because of this thought, another mainly professional goal is to be a good teacher for my students, help them open their minds, believe in their capability and develop their knowledge. For this, I know I have to do my best. My classes must be planned with a large role of procedures and focused in the important abilities and skills: as vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling. It is necessary to integrate the four skills to active the student’s interaction in authentic situation of communication. It is also important to teach the students how to study, how to learn, how to take good results and then they will feel well success with their progress and probably will keep walking. In addition, I think teachers have to reflect about what works and what does not work in the learning process. As teachers, we also have to open our minds to challenge us in research why sometimes students are unmotivated, do not learn, and what is possible to do to motivating them. Traditional classes are still common in the Brazilian public schools. Classes are usually much large and it is impossible to practice all the skills appropriately. There are also different levels; some students are in a high level, others in a middle and other ones in a low level and the teacher needs to reach them. This is for me the most challenge. Teaching the four skills to large classes with heterogeneous classes and reach all students to increase their performance requires a lot of action research, require good strategies, good lesson plans, good interaction between parents and their children and school community.