{"id":3432,"date":"2019-08-04T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:33:32","slug":"how-to-write-teaching-philosophy-for-tesdcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/how-to-write-teaching-philosophy-for-tesdcp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write teaching philosophy for TESDCP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are no specific rules<\/strong><\/span> to write your teaching philosophy.\u00a0 After all, it is YOUR teaching philosophy.\u00a0 It is yours.\u00a0 If you have certain philosophy, ideology or belief, it is technically “none-of-other-people-business” right to judge you.\u00a0 After all, we are different individuals and thus, our beliefs are uniquely our own.\u00a0 This is the common assumption.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, if our teaching philosophy in TESDCP will be evaluated by some people in our school and faculty, it means that the assessors will use “certain” rubric to evaluate our teaching philosophy.\u00a0 Isn’t it so?\u00a0 \u00a0So, in that sense there will be different hierarchy or rating for our teaching philosophy, right?\u00a0 \u00a0What should we do then?<\/span><\/p>\n

This makes me think about how to write my teaching philosophy.\u00a0 One of the common tips that I find from the internet about writing a teaching philosophy is to write it from heart (and soul)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 I have written mine few weeks ago after I attended the TES workshop<\/strong><\/a> in late June.<\/span><\/p>\n

But after a while, I start to think about the best example of teaching philosophy and its criteria.\u00a0 \u00a0It is not that I think too much about how I will be evaluated but rather, I want to see how my current teaching philosophy has the essential elements of a good teaching philosophy because being a non-native speaker of English, I might not be able to write my teaching philosophy proficiently\u00a0 as what I might have originally intended.<\/span><\/p>\n

I discussed this with my colleague, Dr Narina.\u00a0<\/a> She also has similar thoughts on this.\u00a0 So, as we tried to find any guideline on how to write a teaching philosophy from UTM website but to no avail, she came across a guideline given by other universities instead.\u00a0 One of the straight-forward guideline is by Iowa State University.\u00a0 She shares this<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>with me.\u00a0 \u00a0[Psstt… you can also watch a video from Youtube<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is the link]<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, Iowa State University Centre of Teaching and Learning states 4 core ideas about teaching philosophy.\u00a0 The 4 core ideas are<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What are your objectives as a teacher?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. How will you achieve those objectives?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. How will you measure your teaching effectiveness?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Why?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If some of you are still wondering on how to write your teaching philosophy, you can use the 4 core ideas as a guideline of your writing.\u00a0 \u00a0I know some of you might say that we are UTM academicians, not Iowa State University, but I think as a start, we can use the 4 core ideas just to guide our thoughts.\u00a0 At least, we have “substance” in our writing.\u00a0 Better yet, we can sub-divide our teaching philosophy into 4 divisions: objectives, ways to achieve those objective, measure of teaching effectiveness and personal reasons of choosing the career as an academician i.e. teaching line of profession. \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/p>\n

    So, all the best in preparing our TESDCP!\u00a0 \u00a0We have few more\u00a0days<\/strong>\u00a0 before the deadline (15 August 2019<\/strong><\/span> is the deadline for submission<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n

    Disclaimer:<\/strong> This is what my friend shares with me that I want to share with others.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope that it would benefit some of us in writing our teaching philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are no specific rules to write your teaching philosophy.\u00a0 After all, it is YOUR teaching philosophy.\u00a0 It is yours.\u00a0 If you have certain philosophy, ideology or belief, it is technically “none-of-other-people-business” right to judge you.\u00a0 After all, we are different individuals and thus, our beliefs are uniquely our own.\u00a0 This is the common assumption. … Continue reading How to write teaching philosophy for TESDCP?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-tes-and-tesdcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}