Aldo Huezo

EDU 201
11/29/2020
Ms. Grant

My Philosophy of Education

As a young college student, I wish to become a teacher in the future. I feel like I want to

teach in a classroom due to multiple reasons, including the moral contract that comes

with the profession and working with kids. As an average guy who moved from a

different country and has not really achieved anything, I see my teaching career as a

good opportunity to positively impact the world through what I teach the next generation

of learners. The other thing that influenced me to choose teaching as my career is my

time in Safekey. In safekey I was paired with 4 other people my age to watch around 70

kids for 3 hrs. Through my supervising of kids in safekey I was put in a variety of

different situations like talking to a kid victim of bullying, to a kid dealing with the stress

of a parental divorce. I feel like my time in safekey has introduced me first hand to

approaching a younger audience and what some of my faults may be. In safekey I also

learned about the virtues of working with kids and all the amazing things one can

experience, like seeing kids learning to respect each other, their eyes lighting up when

they learn something new, and getting to experience their interactions while they're still

at an innocent state of mind. As a teacher I want to help kids understand how the world

around them works and how to interact with it. As a teacher, the idea of social

constructivism sounds like the teaching philosophy I like the most. Not only does

constructivism sound like a fun way for me to teach and my kids to learn, but it also

achieves something that I wanted all my life as a young student: for young students to
think for themselves. As a kid, all of my classes had research homework, tests,

worksheets and lectures; where did all the fun go? I feel like one of the best ways for

kids to both learn and appreciate class material in an entertaining way, like instead of

just talking about metamorphosis, why not also observe the metamorphosis of a live

butterfly? Showing kids material in an interesting way seems like a far more effective

way than just throwing paperwork at them. I also believe the way I address my kids will

be important. I've seen way too many times teachers being sarcastic and mean to kids

who struggle to understand the class material. As a teacher, I want to behave in a nice,

sensitive, fair and comprehensive way so my students feel safe and learn important

moral values. I also feel like my completion of my history course and the readings

required for my current education course have taught me the negative effects of

discrimination based on gender or race can have on people in general; that kind of

toxicity is something I want to avoid for sure. However, as much as I want to go out and

teach, there are gaps in my teaching skills. A problem I need to improve in my teaching

is learning and adapting definitively to cultural differences. In my country, teachers were

able to call their kids dumb or trrat them as so. I know it's not right or appropriate, but

sometimes I can't help but naturally being kind of stern with people in my surroundings.

To help with my coldness, I'm treating others around me with more respect and also

attempting to build healthy relationships. My other problem is time management.

Because of my overwhelming tendency to procrastinate, I have an overwhelming fear of

getting crushed by all of the unpaid grading and prep that teachers are responsible for.

The worst part about time management is that I don't know how to fix it, but I will try to

work towards managing my time properly. As far as other more technical skills go, I
intend to go back to safekey once the pandemic allows it and I will also study to perfect

my math and reading skills in order to pass the Praxis exam.