Khalid U.

My personal teaching philosophy is that education creates a balance between the home, the environment, and the growing child. The key Development Areas that serve as the main focus of holistic development are: 1) Personal growth – all about me and the way I’m growing and learning 2) Social skills – how I connect with others and interact in my world. 3) Emotional understanding – learning to live well despite difficulties and adversity. 4) Intellectual development – learning, creativity, and obtaining skills for knowledge. 5) Environmental values – appreciating and taking care of the world I live in.

I think it’s hard to really get to know your students through a webcam. But I will ensure to do the following: 1) Reflecting on student learning experiences. 2) Creating a Learning Environment where we share commonalities and build positive relationships. 3) Student's involvement and engagement during the session.

Learning how to learn is a game-changer in the global knowledge economy, and it’s never too early to teach students how to begin to learn more independently but I always try to Inspire student motivation for learning, Coach students to set goals, and develop a plan for learning.

I think Motivation is a desire to learn, try, work, and persevere and I have always offered them choices regarding how they build mastery and self-assess their progress. Curiosity and personal relevance for this type of task can start with your showing a short humorous video of the business world.

I have experienced this in my classrooms and keeping that in mind, here are specific techniques I have used techniques to meet the needs of students with a range of abilities like starting slow with the topic, providing a choice of topics.

I always help students who are struggling with reading comprehension by having students practice reciprocal teaching, teaching thinking strategies.

The strategies I use are like Activating Strategy which is something that gets students actively thinking or making a connection with the material being presented that day and making a connection to the content. I also try to use at least three higher-order-thinking (“HOT”) questions during the lesson. This is proof that you are presenting all your students with challenging work.

I think of student engagement in learning activities to understand engagement with an activity as being represented by good behavior, positive feelings, and making activities as being meaningful.

In my teaching and learning journey so far I have tried and tested this technique of using mind maps, visual representations, such as graphic organizers and concept maps, are to enhance learning which can also be used as formative assessments

I always encourage all my students to stay loud when students encounter material for the first time, it is helpful if they can talk it out with a peer or teacher without any hesitation. Secondly, after learning new material for a set period of time I make the students do a brain dump on a blank piece of paper of what they know and if any challenge they are facing in any topic or otherwise.

LEARNING THROUGH REFLECTION: I always try to do a debriefing, where students can offer feedback to one another and about the activity itself. In addition to this, I encourage and motivate students to think critically about the topic with an example.

I try to reteach objectives using different lessons with different teaching styles for the students who need additional time for mastery.

I have learned so many things during COVID-19 lockdown for teaching and learning practices like hands-on practice with Google Classrooms for a self-created class. Then using Zoom tutorials, Google Meet classrooms. Moreover, emails, video messages, phone calls, messages through my learning management system, comments on shared documents with the students' portals shared for teaching and learning.