As an educator, I believe in a community-like environment, where the teacher mediates the student’s learning by helping students take responsibility for their own learning. The education experience needs to extend from the classroom to the home, where parents and guardians are fully involved.
The classroom should be a place of order, where everyone has a responsibility. Each individual student will have a responsibility to keep the classroom neat and organized.
The teacher and students together will decide the classroom’s motto. This motto will be the foundation of helping the teacher and student to build a healthy and safe classroom environment.
As a community, teacher and students will build a classroom environment based on the pillars of character: trustworthiness, responsibility, respect, caring, fairness, citizenship, courage, diligence, and integrity. Following the pillars of character, teachers and students will build a very strong community, where each one will care for each other.
The classroom and school are “NO BULLYING ZONES”. At no point will bullying be tolerated in the classroom and school. The consequences should not be taken lightly.
The teacher and students will together decide on a set of rules and consequences to be followed during the year. These rules and consequences might change according to how the classroom is going. The teacher and students will sit down and go over the rules and consequences every quarter or whenever is necessary. The teacher and students will all share their thoughts on how the rules and consequences are working.
Both teacher and student will have a set of responsibilities to follow.
- Teacher: plan, develop, organize, assess, monitor, manage, motivate, structure, and prepare lessons.
- Student:
- Be ready to learn each day.
- Use time wisely in the classroom and outside of the classroom.
- Always show academic integrity and honesty.
- Be responsible in completing classroom work in a timely manner.
- Seek help when needed.
- Be respectful of the diversity of other.
- Follow the classroom’s rules and consequences.
- Take responsibility for words and actions.
By following this philosophy, the teacher will inspire students to learn and students will be motivated to become lifelong learners.
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” Galileo Galilei
Link: https://charactercounts.org/program-overview/six-pillars/
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