Week 10- Assignment 2: Teaching Philosophy


Teaching for me, is making sure my students leave my classroom with the vital skills they will need to advance in their educational careers. With that being said, I believe involving technology in my classroom will do just that. Technology has become a huge part of our world and teaching our young students how to use it is extremely important. However, with that comes responsibility to myself to fully understand the ins and outs of what I will be using in my classroom.


I believe that many students learn best by jumping right in and doing things for themselves. Because of this, the collaborative aspect has become something I like to incorporate into almost every lesson. Technology has made collaboration so much easier and more intriguing for students. Words I go by are that students are more inclined to learn when they are taught how to learn for themselves and not shown the content to memorize. I think having the students learn with technology is an effective way to teach them how to learn and understand. With the proper background, warnings from the teacher, and education, I believe technology can really help the students prosper.

Week 3: Assignment 2

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Week 3: Assignment 1

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Week 2: Assignment 3- Backward Design

Backward Design has a huge focus on the teacher's end goal of the lesson or course. Wiggins described it best when he explained that having an end goal in mind while teaching makes it easy to adapt and construct your lesson plan for a particular unit.

I found it interesting when Wiggins talked about how not all textbooks should be gone through in entirety. He explains that content is important to have in each lesson but the content must completely support that end goal. If the textbooks don't fully support the end goal it is important for teachers to instruct students to the correct spots of the book, leaving certain sections out.

From what I have learned about backward design thus far, it seems to me its important to keep the students in the loop on this. The teacher must present to the students in the beginning of the lesson what they are expected to learn and what they should know by the end of the unit. The teacher should assess the students on what they learned and what they lacked on (the type of assessment will vary depending on grade level). And finally, feedback is a huge part of student involvement, giving the students knowledge on what was done correctly and what they could have improved upon.

I thought that Wiggins made a good point that as teachers we have to incentivize how the students responded to our teaching, and through that verbal or sometimes non verbal feedback we have to adjust our styles.