Learning Tenet: Learning is a matter of trust.

Rational: Students must believe that teachers believe in them.

Learning Tent: Learning is implicit.

Rationale: Learning is forever.

Learning Tenet: Prior knowledge is essential to future learning.

Rationale: We learn best what makes sense to us.

Teaching Tenet: Emphasize student collaboration.

Rationale: Collaboration prompts social learning.

Teaching Tenet: Students must find learning enjoyable.

Rationale: Positive learning dispositions are essential to student success.

Teaching Tenet: Self-confidence prompts active learning.

Rationale: Value student individuality.

Technology Tenet: Technology offers new dimensions for exploration.

Rationale: Technology can provide unlimited learning resources.

Since student confidence is an essential ingredient for successfully addressing learning opportunities, I resolve to prompt student self-expression and self-reliance. Emphasis on peer instruction and student collaborations promotes inquiry skills, communicative competence, and self-confidence. I am dedicated to providing authentic, relevant, and applicable learning engagements. 

Because visual learning is a positive and valued technique for increasing student comprehension, I resolve to implement graphic organizers to assist students’ constructions of knowledge. Graphic organizers allow students to recall, process, create, organize, and share pertinent information. Graphic organizers, such as scaffolding, diagrams, and mapping serve to support student explorations, discoveries, and applications. Concrete images of abstract concepts are essential to creating memorable learning engagements.