Running head: MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY I
My Teaching Philosophy I
Stanley Ware
Grand Canyon University
Philosophical and Social Issues in Education
EDU 570N
Professor Kathy Busam
November 09, 2008
My Teaching Philosophy I
My teaching philosophy has been shaped; to a large extent by my years in military service I was constantly dealing with “experienced “people. Given that others now look at me as an “experienced”. I call on past experience to remind myself that it’s not the years that matter, but the quality and variety of experiences that come from the years. I have been a full-time student for 4 years. I also have 25 years of work experience combined between the military, and Department of Defense, but most importantly, I have three daughters, two attending University, I look back on my roles as a student, an employee, a manager, and a father to see how they have shaped my approach to the classroom.
In all my roles, a universal principle I’ve learned is that people to include instructors
and students need to be respected and treated professionally. I don’t believe, however, that respectful conduct requires classroom them to be formal and stiff. Students appreciate
teachers who see them as individuals with names and outside interests similarly, students
want to know their teachers are approachable and hold other interests too. I’ve been in too many classrooms, particularly at the ungraduate level, where the instructor walks into the class room and immediately launches into a lecture with no introductions, no rapport, no socialization what so ever on the first day, I will introduce myself and allow the students Introduce themselves as well; I will also collec ...