Blog 8: Teaching Philosophy (part 1)

I was thinking about what my teaching philosophy would be. I also thought about how I teach my kids now, particularly focusing on comprehension - I teach middle school. I also prefer leading my students through discussion via the Socratic method. I also find that being more than just a stationary authoritarian at the head of a classroom works well (i.e. walking around the room and sitting in random chairs next to them). I also jotted a bunch of random phrases and buzzwords while in class last night: Peter Elbow; the notebook from class; teaching students that they should be "saying" something; Voice; Invention Techniques; Deciding between endless revisions for improvement or strict deadlines; explaining the difference in research & analysis and persuasive stance; and a few random things. Either way, I feel like my style will be highly involved as a teacher with a little bit of everything (in regards to what I have learned so far).