To prepare:
- Reflect on education theorists whose thinking most strongly influences your own.
- Reflect on your beliefs about the purpose of education.
- Reflect on your beliefs about the role of a teacher.
- Reflect on your beliefs about children and your goals for reaching and teaching every student.
- Reflect on your understanding how the multiple developmental domains of students (physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive) affect learning.
- Reflect on the ethnical responsibilities of a teacher that influence your teaching philosophy.
- Relief on your mission as a Walden University teaching candidate to promote positive change for students, families, and/or communities.
- Consider other ideas and goals that are part of your current philosophy as a developing professional educator.
