Monday, October 11, 2010
Beliefs...Paper
I spent four days this past week with my sisters, my beautiful younger sister got married in Chicago on Friday. She was so gorgeous and the wedding was flawless. She is a very strong person with an incredible belief system. On my flight back to Albuquerque I was thinking about my personal philosophy of education paper and wondered what teachers influenced my baby sister if any. I remember her being stubborn but flexible in her beliefs through childhood, adolescences, and her adult life. I began thinking about and evaluating my beliefs. I felt that I knew my beliefs, felt strong about them but knowing that I am going to influence students, children, I’m not sure that each of my beliefs is as solid as it should be. I meet with Professor Chenven last week to go over my paper and he drew me a diagram of what I should work on…the why…I have to say I have never gone around so much on one thought as I have with this. I thought it would be an easy thing to figure out “what does this look like in the classroom?” but NO! I’m not disappointed or upset that I have put so much attention to my beliefs…I’ve found it to all be eye opening.
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Megan, this experience has also been eye opening and has made really think about what type of influence I want to be on my students. The next question I address to myself is how is this going to look in a classroom setting and how to use this philosophy to be the best teacher I can be. I feel the same way about my beliefs not being a solid as they should be. This paper has given me the chance to examine who I want to be in classroom and I think that is good.
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