EDAD 6291: Internship in the Principalship Houston Baptist University Dr. Julie Fernandez February 8, 2016
Philosophy of Education
It is my desire as an educator to help students meet their fullest
potential in there learning environment by providing an environment that is safe, supports risk-taking, and invites a sharing of ideas. There are three elements that I believe are conducive to establishing such an environment, (1) the teacher acting as a guide, (2)student engagement and (3) promoting respect for all things and all people. In order for students to construct knowledge, they need the opportunity to discover for themselves and practice skills in authentic situations. Providing students access to hands-on activities and allowing adequate time and space to use materials to explore the concepts from the lesson being studied creates an opportunity for individual discovery and construction of knowledge to occur and the teacher serves as guide or facilitator. Students need the opportunity to explore and create in a fun an engaging way. Student engagement is very important in order to make the learning meaningful and fun for the learner. As an educator we need to make sure that student engagement is happening as much as possible. Teachers should model and promote students to respect themselves, others and their environment. Students need continuous practice modeling these behaviors in the classroom. By setting rules and expectations and
providing a consistency with rule expectations. This will provide a
safe environment for children to be in and to respect others.
Philosophy of Leadership
What makes a great leader? A leader that is rational and natural. As a
leader we will need visions and goals, but never forget the natural side of being understanding and being there for the people who come and work their hearts out for you. It can be very easy to take for granted the people that are loyal to you and forget about them when we tend to get so driven by our visions and goals. We cannot accomplish those dreams and goals by ourselves, it takes faithful, loyal, and hardworking personnel to accomplish them. It is necessary to have soft skills with the people we work with. Another great aspect of a leader is one that recognizes that he or she makes mistakes and takes ownership of them and is quick to fixing and making the necessary adjustments to fix them. As a leader it is our responsibility to grow and help our staff find the potential that is inside of them. I believe everyone has hidden talents that need to be discovered and many have leadership skills that they are not aware off. When someone struggles, it is our responsibility to provided them with the necessary professional development or assistance to help them accomplish the desire goal for that individual.
Vision for Learners
I believe every students should be given the best instructional possible by their teachers. It is our responsibility to help our students become successful learners. As an administrator it is our responsibility to make sure our students are receiving the best education through high quality instruction that follow the TEKS. Not only should every child receive high quality instruction, but also have the opportunity to be engaged in their learning. Every student should be able to create and apply their learning using technology and other forms of methods that allows them to apply what they have been learning using the high order Blooms taxonomy, creating and applying. Vision for Teachers A teacher is someone who is passionate for children, loves to teach, and enjoys making a difference in a childs life. A great teacher is a person who is a hard worker, passionate and is constantly striving to improve the results of childrens learning in order to help our students be successful. When we strive to improve and make things better thats how we can better ourselves and be better educators for our students. Vision for the Organization Serve and sacrifice for others in order to help them become great, others meaning our students and teachers. Jon Gordon quoted, Great leaders succeed when they bring out the best in others. I truly believe this is true,
teachers as leaders in their classrooms and administrators as leaders in a
school. Teacher serve and sacrifice to help their student become great and an administrator should serve and sacrifice to help her teachers become great. Plan for vision attainment In order to attain my vision, I believe in collaboration and working as a team in order for all to succeed. I will work with a team of teachers that I will empower in order to help execute and achieve the vision plan. Working together to achieve what is best for our students.