My Teaching Philosophy

My Teaching Philosophy

Leeja Gopinath, Mathematics, Roll No: 55

I believe that teaching should be aimed at the holistic development of a student, rather than just imparting subject knowledge. Rather than making the students memorize facts, a teacher should provide a broad framework to acquire knowledge. It is wrong to force theories on the students. A thirst for knowledge has to be evoked in the students. A classroom should be a platform for interaction. Students should be encouraged to ask questions and teacher should guide them towards the answer. Then only real education takes place. Learning should not be for the sake of learning, but for knowledge. A society advances not by the money they make, but by the knowledge they generate.

A class room is invariably a cross section of the society we live in. This reflects in the various class room attributes like attention span, comprehension ability, logical thinking etc. Any teaching attempt should be planned by keeping both the fast and slow learners in mind, keeping the teaching objectives in mind.Learning being a continuous process, a student should be kept aware about the relevance of what they are studying. Along with this, they should remember what they had learned in the past is linked to this and what in the future lessons will be linked to this.

In today’s world, EQ is as important as IQ. Traditionally, the curriculum concentrates on IQ. A student spends 5 hours of his time every day in a school. The school can provide the right atmosphere and the teacher can give the necessary inputs to the students so that they acquire confidence and develop a positive attitude towards life.

A teacher cannot run away from the problems of a student. Recently, I read about the support rendered by a whole school in Thiruvananthapuram to a 4^th standard student suffering from cancer by collecting money for his treatment and praying for him every day at the school assembly.What better way to communicate the objectives of education.