EDUCATIONAL BELIEF STATEMENTS

• I believe teaching requires enormous amounts of dedication and time commitments.
• I believe education must address and meet the individual needs of students.
• I believe learning styles are extremely varied, and planning of instructional strategies must take that into consideration.
• I believe communication among professionals is crucial in successful education.
• I believe extra-curricular activity involvements are important.
• I believe more learning takes places in "doing".
• I believe teaching requires patience, sense of humor, flexibility, adaptability, enthusiam, compassion, and tolerance.
• I believe students' physical, intellectual, social and emotional needs must be taken into consideration.
• I believe education must prepare students for the future and teach them how to be life-long learners.
• I believe education should develop students' basic skills, higher order thinking skills, social skills, and more.
• I believe schools need to provide a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
• I believe schools should work to develop students' moral characters and sense of civic duty.