Teaching Philosophy

In your portfolio loaded on Foliotek, you are required to post a 3-4 page teaching philosophy.  This philosophy should address not only how you approach teaching in general, but how you approach the teaching of English.  Ground your philosophy in your field of study.

Links:

The Chronicle of Higher Education: 

"How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy"  http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2003/03/2003032702c.htm

"What's Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Does it Matter?"  http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2003/03/2003032701c.htm

The Teaching Center, Washington University:

http://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/writing-teaching-philosophy-statement

Sample on-line Teaching Portfolio:

Mark Mullen:  http://www.ags.uci.edu/~ishmael/folio.htm

OSU:

http://ftad.osu.edu/portfolio/philosophy/Philosophy.html#samples