Teaching Philosophy

I believe that the best thing the teacher can achieve is inspiring the students to find their passion in one subject and then pursue it as their beloved career in the future. The reason I want to become a math teacher is that my middle school math teacher guided me to find my passion in mathematics. I always remembered she said that “There is so much beautiful thinking going on behind the formulas. It is very sad to just learn the formulas and do practice questions.” Her wisdom, kindness and curiosity really make me believe that math is beautiful and will make me a better person. As a future teacher, I will not limit the occurrence of learning only in the classroom.

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I believe that the constructivism teaching approach will lead students to success. Students question many phenomenons around them every day and have much more common sense than you expected As a future teacher, I want to design lessons where students not only learn the knowledge, but learn how to learn the knowledge as well. Students’ performance will be measured in many different dimensions like projects or problem solving scenarios rather than the fixed knowledge in one test.

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Also, I believe that students can only thrill in an environment which supports their identity and culture. As a former international student in an American high school, I understand the discomfort of struggling in language and accommodating the strange environment, and I will be there and help them as much as I can for the students who have to go through these events to ensure that students feel safe and proud about their identity and culture in the classroom and can express their thoughts in different ways instead of only English.