Response Question- Teaching Philosophies

Sarah Orosz

            All of the multiple reading assignments that were analyzed and reviewed along with Neman’s chapter fifteen (“The Personal Teaching Approach”) in Teaching Students to Write seemed to relate to one another by stressing their shared ideas within the philosophy of teaching and these ideas include: teacher as a role model, class discussion of social problems, establishing safe learning environments, and ultimately teaching students the skills that they can use outside of the classroom. Many of these readings stress the significance of implementing individual teaching philosophies and strategies in the classroom setting and later evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of these professional attitudes and ideas. Keeping this in mind, I realized that the only practice I have ever had teaching has been in front of my colleges and I have not discovered my philosophy like instructor Kara Mollis, “The consistent progress of my students during a semester and conversations with them afterward has taught me that my current views on effective teaching […] have helped to insure that my students will […] succeed academically and professionally,” so, how can I create a successful writing philosophy if I have never put it into practice in a real classroom setting?