Why teaching? That is a question I asked myself constantly throughout the application process. My Theatre career is what I had dedicated myself to. I spent years of my life perfecting my craft and then learning a new aspect of it. This was all of course until the summer of 2017, this is where everything I knew turned upside down.
It was on that first day of the camp as we sang the warm-up songs as loud as we could something crazy happened. These confused pre-teens and grade schoolers started to join in.
It was magic.
Up until this first day of camp I was cursing myself for hopping on that plane to Sanremo, Italy. I never wanted to teach I saw it as something I did not have the Talent for. However throughout the two camps, I taught at I had the pleasure of participating in many more magic filled learning moments, in my student’s lives.
The magic is something I want to continue to bring into my teaching. What does that exactly mean? Well, that simply means that it is my job to help them achieve the best they can in their own arena. I plan on doing that by using as many effective learning and teaching strategies as possible. The biggest ones are multimodality, multiliteracy, reflection, and student lead learning.
The reasons I choose these strategies is because I believe these are the best techniques to use to help give my students as many as learning and assessment opportunities as possible. This is because as humans we do not think the same therefore we cannot learn or be assessed in the same standard ways. I want to help facilitate independent self-advocates for their own learning, hopefully, centred towards challenging their world for the better. However, I feel that my philosophy should continue to grow and develop as I do as a teacher and person.