What is my approach to teaching???

I was asked by my education studies teacher to write about my approach to teaching and I think this is the first time I reflect on it. When I have been in teaching practice I have been focus on how the classes are developed (activities and language learning process). Think this is a good opportunity to reflect on my approach to teaching not only a in foreign language teacher but also in my style and praxis in general.

I would like to start by saying that, when reading the chapter four from the book Approches to teaching by Fenstermacher & Soltis. It answered many of my questions about the teaching field. It helped me to understand different teaching ways and besides that, I could find myself identified with the Liberationist Approach. According to the authors, this kind of teachers have as a main goal to make the students to liberate the mind to wonder, to know and understand, imagine and create using the full intellectual inheritance of civilized life (2009).


I think when studying you do not only learn something as the executive teaching would expect but you also develop your human side as the facilitator approach has a main goal. I think there must be a balance between both. Therefore I would dare to say that knowledge is needed and human side as well to develop a critical person.

Through my teaching, I want my students to be aware of the knowledge I am offering but this doesn’t necessary mean that I fall within the traditional models, because on the other hand through the knowledge I want to offer something to make their lives different. I want to offer the key for them to begin to dream and be themselves.

Maybe at the end of the semester I will have clear ideas and therefore I will be able to ask myself about my approach. The teaching practice will influence for sure my ideas and opinions. This is indeed a good exercise to reflect on our professions.