Teaching Philosophy Brainstorm

I included some variation of the three major goals discussed in class Monday night: flexibility, rhetorical awareness and fluency. I believe these characteristics are key to the development self-reliant, self-governed writers. Additionally, I want to expose my students to new cultures and ideas. The hope is, here, that they can critically examine their values, empathize with others of different backgrounds, and appreciate a common bond of humanity while retaining and valuing distinguished and separate identities. Lastly, I hope students leave my classroom feeling like they are "real" writers.