Monday, May 2, 2016
reflection on teaching philosophy... Is it too cheesy?
So i wrote my Teaching Philosophy, and i really truly believe in what I am saying in it, but i feel so cheesy about it. It just seems so optimistic for a job interview. So my questions and thoughts i guess are how do i make it sound less cheesy if i truly feel this way about teaching? I am very passionate about teaching, and i still to this day email students from semesters ago to see how they are doing. I am all about creating a bond with my students so that they will seek me out for help even after they have moved on from my class. I personally feel like that type of instructor is the most effective. I am also always very hopeful with my new classes, i want to push them to be their very best. To me as a teacher, seeing a student succeed is so fulfilling and gratifying to me. It is because of all this that i feel like other instructors or bosses wont higher me because they will think i am making it up or that i am just saying what they want to hear. I dont know how to market myself in a way that captures what a true optimist int he classroom i am without sounding like an inexperienced buffoon that everyone is waiting to see get "jaded" by the system. Because i refuse to become that jaded professor that is there for the check, for me teaching has never been about the check or how much money i can make. for me i can truly say it is about helping students achieve their goals, and showing everyone that said they were "failures or less than" wrong by earning their degrees. What do you guys recommend for this predicament?
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