My Personal Philosophy Approach to International Education
My personal philosophy in becoming a teacher was based on three letter word MAD: Make A Difference. As an Educator, I feel the most important aspect of teaching is allowing critical thinking and open questioning to flow into your classroom environments. The style in which you teach in and the different learning styles you adopt is also a vital approach to my philosophy of teaching. Throughout my teaching qualifications, I have misunderstood the meaning of International Education. I had understood it as delivering an international curriculum (British, Cambridge, Australian or American) by international teachers to one adopted ethnic group. During my teaching years, I have adopted the different types of learning methods to aid for different learners. To encourage diversity and flexibility in my teaching methods as it should move away from the old rote learning that many schools encompass this until today.
My definition of IE is to develop citizens of the world in accordance with culture, language, and social cohesions to encourage the enjoyment of learning. As teachers, our mission /vision is to aim students to become global thinkers, building on team skills whilst adopting respect and concern for other cultures and peoples. How? when most International schools adopt monotony. My personal philosophy about International Education is how a student’s identity is seen as a Venn diagram consisting off, their notion of the self (their identity), embracing their cultural beliefs, and traditions and finally encompassing humanity to becoming good citizens.
I have come to understand the complexity of International Education and what it offers with its multiple factors that play a role in defining what IE is. As stated earlier my approaches as an educator is to develop great global citizen of the world in my students in relation to their culturalism, adopted languages and learning to adapt & live in unity. Working for the Ministry of Education building an awareness and reinforcing students sense of identity and cultural awareness are embedded in textbooks of all grades. This then makes me question the topic of cosmopolitan and nationalism. How can you develop international mindedness? If the class is only of one nation? Question arise; fear of loss of identity yet we live in a place of global networking. Most school still adopt rote learning? This is where my teaching differs... how to hold the value of UAE traditions, beliefs and the system of how they were brought up by their family members to a realm of Internationalism Education.
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