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=Miss Pugh=

Hello All!

My name is Miss Pugh and I am glad that you took the opportunity to explore my webpage. I am currently a senior Elementary Education major at Illinois State University, anticipating a Bachelors Degree in May 2012. I have been granted with the opportunity to student teach next semester in a third grade classroom at Joseph E. Gary Elementary School in Chicago. I am more than excited for my new upcoming learning opportunities. I have so many great ideas and I am just just ready to be able to work with brilliant children.

Educational Philosophy

 It is safe to say that everyone knows that teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. For that reason, teaching is very important to me as well as to the success of others. I want to be a teacher that will make a positive impact on every student that I encounter. I possess a lot of great qualities of an effective teacher, however, there are some qualities that I would like to see improvement in within myself before I graduate and move on from this university. I would like to work on having both the disposition and ability to collaborate ethically and effectively with others, having a wide general knowledge and a deep knowledge of my content area, and also having a working knowledge and appreciation of the diversity among learners.  Ethically and effectively collaborating is something that I feel that I genuinely need to work hard to enhance. I understand that I have many strong and dominant leadership qualities but sometimes they interfere with me working cooperatively in a group setting. I know that as a teacher I will have to get used to working in a group setting with my students as well as the faculty. I have been trying not to take the upper hand while participating in group work this semester. The rest of my time here as an undergraduate, I will try to put away my leading tendencies in a group setting unless it’s necessary for the success of the group.  Having a deeper and wider general knowledge is something that I intend on striving for before and after I graduate. I honestly feel like I can never know too much when it comes to the teaching profession. Things change daily and I must be aware and constantly keeping up with my students. I plan on not only doing assigned readings for my classes but also doing research outside of the classroom to broaden my knowledge. There is so much to be covered and I want to go into my classroom as teacher who knows more than just general information. I am also pursuing a reading endorsement and I feel that I need to brush up on my grammar because I sometimes make grammatical errors that could be avoided with proper knowledge.  Last but not least, I really want to work on having working knowledge and appreciation of the diversity among learners. For so long I have known that I am a kinesthetic learner and learned ways to suite my style of learning. Now that it’s almost time for me to be a teacher I realize how important it is to be aware of the other learning styles and what benefits them. I really plan on doing a lot of research and also getting involved with the campus wide resources that are available for me to work with children just to get a feel for how they prefer to learn and what helps them out.  I am progressing very well in my educational journey and pretty soon it will be time for me to graduate and go on to pursue my dream of teaching. As an undergraduate student, there are many things that I would like to work on before I leave this university. I really want to work on working ethically and effectively with others, having a wide general and a deep knowledge of my content area, and also having a working knowledge and appreciation of the diversity among learners. I feel that with help of my professors, assignments, and my own personal thirst for knowledge I can meet my goals and enhance my virtues.

Created by Chamiyah Pugh © cbpugh@ilstu.edu Date Created: November 28, 2011 Last Modified: December 12, 2011