My Teaching Philosophy

“U Exchange….I listen, U Excite….I focus, U Engage….I learn, U Encourage….I trust, U Empower….I believe.”

The foundation of my teaching philosophy rests on my belief of “Possibilities Infinite” with children.  It encompasses the ‘whole child’ and encourages an environment where everyone is involved in the teaching-learning process. I know that it is my foremost job as a teacher to believe in each child’s potential; and create opportunities to facilitate them to perform and achieve. This small step can give them the big confidence for life that they can succeed.

I step into my class with the belief that the learning that happens during play is the real learning. The best teaching-learning environment is where both the facilitator/teacher and learner are enjoying. Most of my lessons are delivered while playing with children. Most of the time my classes are ‘on-the-mic’ or noisy, ‘on-the-wheels’ or moving and ‘all play’. But, I try to be a facilitator more and try that my learners enjoy the learning process. Discipline in class for me is the effort to keep all children engaged and not an effort to keep them quiet, obedient or/and followers.  This willingness to make my every class a ‘Fun-O-Learn’ experience helps me come up with many new and innovative, yet simple teaching-learning ways to use with my learners; and keeps my children busy and connected with me and class.

Furthermore I believe that any learning in the classroom is incomplete if it could not find a link with the child’s environment outside the classroom. So, I always ensure to connect my lessons to the child’s broader environment and help with experiential learning for my students. Lot of my teaching aids are inspired and created from the common games children play or from the materials, magazines or papers easily available around.  This, I believe helps model ‘recycle-reuse’ with my students and peers and inspires true creativity. I maintain an open, honest and friendly relation with all to help them find me easily approachable and share freely. I actively take clues from children and proactively evolve my teaching methodology. 

In nutshell, I do everything possible to provide an exploratory, independent and active learning environment in my classrooms.