My Teaching Platform

Purpose: This first portfolio activity was designed to help you describe your current thinking about teaching and learning by creating a teaching platform.

Directions: Create a detailed teaching platform.

Write a two-to-three-page paper that describes your platform for teaching and learning. This platform should represent your thinking at this point in time about how learning occurs and the implications this has for teaching practices. Your platform should be supported by clear and specific “planks” that include the beliefs and values that guide the way you would construct your classroom and perform your teaching.  Describe those values and ideas.  Use illustrating examples where necessary.

A site like http://www.celt.iastate.edu/faculty/document-your-teaching/writing-a-teaching-philosophy-statement may be useful in getting you started with the generating of ideas!

Think about the platform as your overall conception about teaching and learning, and the planks as your more specific beliefs and values. An example of a plank might be that “learning is an active process wherein knowledge is socially constructed.” We will revisit our teaching platforms as we learn more about the education field, revising these for the portfolio which is the final major assignment.

Use APA style for this short paper.  Links for help with APA appear in the Unit 1 mini-lectures