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I believe that all students have the opportunity to succeed at school and in life. However, I do also believe that my students need support from all areas of their life to be successfull. Not just in school by us teachers. I think for the most part that our educational system supports my belief that all students have the potential to be successfull. However, I think that there can and always needs to be more ways to partner with other areas of our students life. For example, how can our modern school system partner with our students family networks more to lift our students up in all parts of their days.

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I believe that the classroom should be a welcoming and safe environment for all students to learn, explore, engage, and make themselves vulnerable. Students need to know that the care givers in their lives have their best interests at heart and will fight for their success. I now have children of my own in school, and while I have always held these views, they are reinforced as I watch my own babies struggle through some very difficult situations. I remember w I walking into the break room during my first year teaching and sharing that a student had called me a bitch. A veteran teacher said, "Welcome! You've made it!" At the time I thought she was right. After all, we are their teachers, not their friends. Since then my outlook has changed. The students aren't going to open up to us unless they know that we care about them. They aren't going to learn unless they feel safe, nurtured, and the freedom to be vulnerable around us. I work hard to develop positive relationships with my students, and go out of my way to repair those relationships when necessary.

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I believe that all students when given the opportunity and support can be successful. Students tend to come into my math class with a negative attitude because they have not liked previous years of math. I stress to them if they come in with a positive attitude that this class will be enjoyable and they will be successful. The administration uses the "growth mindset" terms in our building all the time. I think this is something both students and teachers can benefit from and always remember that each day you will learn something new that can be applied to many different aspects in their lives. My class is aligned to the state standards and our grading is off the standards. Sometimes I feel like I am only teaching to the standards/test and giving my students the opportunity to apply the content to real life. I tend to add real life examples and activities in my class to switch it up.

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I believe that all students have potential and the ability to learn and grow. I think that education has started to shift from being a system that tries to get students to learn in a specific way to a system that is more flexible to meet the learning styles and needs of students as individual. Beyond teaching any content knowledge, I believe a key goal of our educational system has to be instilling a growth mindset in students. Teaching students not to say "I did my best" but to say "I did the best I know how and will continue to learn new and better ways of doing something". As a teacher, it is my job to convey that mindset and push students to explore their curiosities and passions.

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I believe that every student is different. Even students that come from the same family, each student is different. No matter who their family is, each student has their own needs. As teachers we need to work together with the families to provide the right opportunities for each child to succeed. I'm a firm believer that parents play a huge role in education as well. As much as I understand that each student is different and has different needs...it also worries me as a regular education classroom...how we are to support 23 kids that all have their own "learning needs." Somedays I feel as if no two students' can do the same thing....how much specialization to do we do and not become burnt out? Education has changed over the years. I'm going to be honest that somedays I truly question the educational system nowadays. In the elementary end....things are typically happy. However, the way things are allowed and accepted in the High School really worries me that as a society...

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I believe that every student is unique in all aspects of his/her life. Every student has a different story, different interests, and different learning styles. The more we, as teachers, can learn about these differences, the better we can educate the individual child. I am also of the belief that all students can achieve success. Success for one student might be winning an essay contest, while success for another student might be not running away from my class for a day. It is my job to help my students achieve these successes and help them grow as people and students. With regards to education, I believe that many years have been spent delivering a one size fits all drill and kill curriculum in the language arts realm. When I began at this school, my students had practice books to go along with the basal from the early 2000's and a drill and kill English textbook from the early 1990's. These tools were not meeting their needs as students and did not fit my teaching style at all. I believe that a curriculum needs to be flexible to meet the needs of the students. i also am learning to accept that I cannot teach the same topic or standard the same way every single year. Each class of students is different and they have different needs, so I need to learn to be more flexible. I am getting better; but I am still not as flexible as I know I should be!

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As a teacher I think that each student is unique and brings their own mindset to the classroom. For me it is so important to get to know my students for who they are. I find that with my younger kiddos forming a connection is so important. This way they feel valued and a part of a community. When they have this feeling they are more comfortable sharing their opinions and answering and asking questions. I also think it is important for teachers to recognize that each student has diverse learning styles and there is not a "one-size-fits-all." Education is moving towards personalization and I think that is where we see the most growth in our students.

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I believe that every student can be successful if they work hard and that education is not a true measure of a person's success. I know that this is weird for a teacher to say, but students think that if they do not go to college that they are a failure. Some of the smartest people that I know in my life are ones who did not go to college, but are extremely successful.
Being someone who comes from the construction industry, I would rather have one hard working employee than 10 educated lazy employees. I try to tell my students that in the real world, how hard you work is the real measure and not your education.

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I believe that all students have the ability to learn and each have something they are very talented at. I teach math, so I hear many students tell me they are not very good at math or they don't like math. It is very hard to get them to break down that barrier. If they have that mindset it will be a struggle most of their lives. I have parents tell me that they are still not good at math and can't help their kids at home. I believe each kid has the capability of learning and doing math, it is just a matter of figuring out how to get them to have confidence and practice more. With the technology we have available to us, I feel that we are able to provide more opportunities for our struggling students. One of my goal is to provide as many paths for students to learn as possible and technology is a huge aid in that.

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I believe that the role of a teacher is greater than simply educating students on the core principles of learning, but that our job is also to model good citizenship, positive leadership and frankly, being a good human being in the world. I believe that every student wants to be heard, recognized and appreciated, and that they will work hard for their teachers as long as you show them that you recognize them as an individual. After reading several credible articles disproving the idea of learning styles, I believe that it is more about simply understanding your students. Rather than catering to the idea of visual, kinesthetic, etc. style of learners, teachers must take the time to get to know their students' personalities, interests, home lives, friendships, to understand how they are going to operate and function best in your classroom in order to succeed in and after high school.

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What I believe about education  - Dylan Knipple

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What I believe about education  - Dylan Knipple

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I have taught students in grades 8-12 now in my 10 years of teaching and they each have their own unique view of the world with their own set of challenges. Every student I have taught has had days in which they were not engaged in what was going on and every student has been overboard excited about something in my class. With that said, nearly all students are curious and excited to learn once you can find something to get them interested and challenge them with something. As a social studies teacher, I've always had a class based around helping the students develop skills that would hopefully translate into any future endeavors the students may have. In my opinion, that's really what we as teachers should focus on in education. This year I am teaching mostly seniors and I have made it a major emphasis of mine to find out what they plan to do with themselves after high school. The range of their interests and aspirations is truly incredibly. In one class yesterday, I had 2 future welders, an aspiring artist, an engineer, a couple school teachers, a young man who wants to write books, a future doctor, 2 young men joining the military, and at least 10 students who still have no idea what they want to be. My job is to find things that will engage this diverse group of students and give them learning experiences that will be worth their time and translate into something they'll be able to use later in life.

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I believe that all students do initially genuinely want to learn. However, I feel that by the time I see many of them in 7th grade, far too many are in need of serious work to pull them back into that belief system. Our school system used to give kids a lot of time to explore and play and that has been taken away. Now my mom, a preschool teacher is planning interventions for students who are falling behind. Many students by the time they get to 7th grade believe school is not for them and I can't blame them after being told directly or indirectly that they're not good enough. I would really like to schools transition back to places of creativity because our current system rewards rote memorization on standardized tests and ignores, at least in terms of testing, the unique learning preferences of a lot of students.

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I believe that all students have the ability to learn in their own unique way. I think that in order for each student to be successful they need to find a method of learning that makes sense to them. I believe that it is the teachers role to deliver content using various methods so their students have the opportunity to learn no matter their preference. I think education has come a long way in the past ten years with the adoption of technology. Technology makes it so much easier for students to learn, be successful, and communicate. As teachers I believe it is our role to help students figure out their learning style, show them ways to use their technology to their advantage, and how to communicate with others around them professionally and respectfully.

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When it comes to education, I believe that all students should be allowed the right to an equitable education. An education where they are challenged to the best of THEIR abilities. With that being said, technology has the opportunity to play a vital role in supporting a students education. Furthermore if we foster an environment for students to be invested, be accountable, be respectful, be excellent, and be leaders, we will allow for them to prosper into true citizens.