When I think of the purpose of education, I think of it as the teaching principles to help guide one through society. It helps us to grow emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially. Giving us the basic skills and knowledge to meet our full potential. Without skills and knowledge then we wouldn't have an understanding or connection of how things work.
My beliefs as an educator are to create a community within the classroom. Within my community setting my beliefs and values to a student's education are equity, equality, communication, respect, and creativity. This will help set our stage to a sense of wonder in the student and guide them to find their purpose within society. By creating a safe and equal opportunity environment, each student will develop respect for their peers and others around them. I will help each student to achieve their utmost potential as each student is unique and different in their way. Everyone has their uniqueness to contribute to our community.
Communicating with the students is foremost to establishing a good understanding for me to reach each of their diverse needs. Inside the classroom, to set our platform for learning we will incorporate different learning styles through hands-on activities, cooperative learning, individual work, media literacy, and problematic scenarios. This will help to diversify the student's transferable skills to express, understand and challenge the how and why it fits into society.
Within my broad-based technology field of hairstyling and aesthetics, I will give students the opportunity to showcase their work. With opportunities to showcase their knowledge and understanding throughout the community will not only help the students to flourish, create, and express, but also develop self-confidence.
Students deserve opportunities for self-expression, and to become advocates of their learning. It wasn't until after school that I learned through experiences of triumphs and mishaps that it is okay to make mistakes and take risks as long as I've learned something in the process. These are values that I believe in and instill in my children, I hope to further inspire future students to do the same. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have had self-confidence issues growing up.
Learning is never-ending, and every child deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. I look forward to teaching and learning more from my future students so that I too can continue to learn and grow along with them.