Welcome to my E-portfolio. A Teacher Portfolio is an anthology of achievements that the teacher has accomplished, both in the classroom and elsewhere. This is a personal document. It is designed to display that teacher's talents and proficiencies. It demonstrates a teacher's knowledge and skills.
The term portfolio is being use to describe many thing and I use this portfolio to share some information about me. In this portfolio, you will be able to view my personal details, my resume, my science lesson plan, my reflection, my artifacts and my performance as a science teacher for almost 7 years.
What do I hope to accomplish as a teacher here at SMKSIS II ?
What are my goals? Why do I teach? What am I trying to do?
Goal number one is to educate the students in my classes. I want them to learn SCIENCE in a permanent, long-lasting way. I want them to be able to apply these ideas of science in real-world settings. I want them to learn not just the specific methods and techniques, but the overarching ideas of quantitative and scientific thought, to learn to view the world through a science lens, and understand the power that comes from measuring things with specific numbers.
I will do anything and everything in the classroom if it results in my students learning more. I view teaching as a sort of optimization problem: Given the limited amount of time and energy that I can devote to any class, how can I use these resources most effectively to get the maximum possible learning out of my students as a whole. A part of this is making my classes fun and entertaining, to joke with students and be silly with them. If I devote 5% of my efforts to making the students relaxed and involved, then I get more learning out of the class than with my other 95% than if I devoted 100% of time and energy to serious teaching.I want to inspire students, to change their lives, so that they discover life paths that they had never considered before. This may seem arrogant and ambitious, but I’ve hope that one day it may comes true. All this will happen with the kind supporting words of a wonderful teacher. I want to revolutionize the practice of science education.
Too often, the practice of school teaching is viewed as an art, an unquantifiable craft, to be practiced and mastered by each generation of teachers. I believe that by quantifying the results of our teaching, we can empirically test new and revolutionary teaching methods. Measurement and quantification opens the door to real progress, to allow us to discover new and more effective ways of using classroom time, so that the next generation of teachers can be genuinely better and more successful in teaching than we are today. I believe that we can quantitatively demonstrate that the traditional “sage on the stage” lecture, no matter how interesting, carefully designed, or beautifully delivered is a less efficient method of teaching than techniques which force every student in the class to be active. I don’t know the best ways to teach, but I believe that we can reach closer to them through a program of systematic quantitative teaching experiments.
My most selfish goal: To have fun! I love the practice of teaching. I relish the privilege of getting to know the students in my classes, to talk with them, to visit, to joke, to develop relationships and most importantly to become friends.
