Personal Philosophy of Education
My purpose in life is to be a great teacher who inspires his students to work hard in order to ensure they that they all successfully complete their studies within the minimum prescribed time. Teaching at a university is a challenge with great and invaluable rewards. My students are, without exception, smart and motivated people with open minds; it is up to me to build on their intelligence, kindle their curiosity about learning and utilize their motivation.
It is indeed my philosophy to inspire my students to learn in order to achieve great things. I always aspire to lead by example and thus my lectures are very practical and inspiring. I take my job as a calling and a service to my students, their parents and the community at large. I strongly believe that teaching is a form of a collaborative and mutually beneficial service in which the teacher creates a learning environment that motivates the students to learn and supports them in the learning process whilst at the same time he or she (the teacher) learns and develops professionally as a result of that interaction. In this way teaching and learning is a two-way collaborative relationship between the teacher and the students.
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” (William Arthur Ward)
As a teacher, I practice a lot of empathy and I possess a deep understanding of the difficulties that my students face in acquiring knowledge. Demonstrating passion for teaching and concern for the students, I view teaching as an educational partnership which inculcates a sense of self, motivation and inspiration to both the students and the teacher. Over the years, I have come to believe in the fact that if you are to achieve successful results in the classroom, you need to view your students as partners in the learning process (the concept of co-creation) and they thus need to be active participants not recipients in the whole process. Without that there is no effective and sustainable teaching and learning!