Connections

So the more I think about what I want to write on my teaching philosophy, the more my mind wanders back to my literacy autobiography. I keep thinking back to what it is that drove me to teaching and particularly the teaching of English. As I think about what I want to accomplish as a teacher, I can't help but to think back to when I was in high school and what I wanted to change back then. This idea of change keeps popping into my head along with the sample teaching philosophy of the fellow who was working for the TSA and how he wanted change and to do things his way, a way in which he saw that things would be more beneficial to the students he would be dealing with. I like this idea that teachers should be passionate and strive to achieve in excellence using a curriculum that is catered to the students’ needs, as opposed to the outdated curriculum of the k-12 system that seems daunting to most.