I'm so glad that you're back. Hopefully you've done your research. And we can talk about some pedagogical principles that I've learned or that have affected the way that I wrote my teaching philosophy statement. So I believe that this is how we learn. I have 10 of them that I'm going to go through each one of them. I believe we learn by asking questions, having discussions, having memorable experiences, by tapping into what we already know and adding to that, and I truly do believe that, like reading, learning is an active process.

There's things that we do before while we learn after we learn, we connect, we ask questions, we visualize, we analyze, we experiment we practice. There's a lot of words that I could have added to number five. Number six, this one is important. It's vital to have the tools In order to learn, well, if I don't have the tools, then it's you're making the successful, less likely, we learn when we are confident in our ability to learn. And here's the one that's key. Number nine, I'm gonna skip number eight and come back to that because there's a story behind it.

But we learned when our teachers confident, and our ability to learn that one, I truly do believe, in fact that Richard allenton wrote this amazing book and it said, What struggling readers really need. And he talked about this amazing study that he had done and just observing teachers it was it wasn't anything that was recorded in a magazine or a journal, but it was just through his own observations and asking teachers questions and the teachers who did not see success in the classroom are actually not confident and they made excuses for the reasons why they were not successful such as low parent involvement, being in a title one school, they behavioral issues, etc, etc, etc. They made a lot of excuses. But the teachers who were confident who had the same issues, do not use that as an excuse for the results that were put in front of them.

Instead, they believed in giving their their students the tools so that they could be successful and believe that their students can be successful even if they weren't right at the moment. And the results of the teacher, the competent teachers, classroom, and the students who were successful were astronomically higher than the teacher who lacked confidence. So I hope that's a little push towards confidence and being courageous because, quite frankly, when you're hit with those problems, it's really hard. Be confident, and it takes courage to be so. So that's my little spiel on number nine. But going back to number eight, see I have this journal.

And I write down all of these things that I want to know. And I want to keep track of because writing, writing helps me solidify things in my brain Britain. So I had I thought I had 10. No, it turns out, I only had nine. So I went back in I was looking at them and going through it again because I'd had a particularly bad day and I was like, I miss number six. I completely skipped number six, apparently, I can't count to 10.

So that's one I want to add. That we learn from our mistakes and don't be afraid to laugh at them and go back and share them with others. Because the I want my students to know it's okay to make a mistake. You just go back and you fix it and you laugh about it. You learn from it. And I don't want them to be afraid of that.

And it's amazing how much more I learned from the mistakes that I make than doing something perfectly the first time. And then last but not least, we learn when we have an end goal in mind. And so when I developed curriculum, I actually develop it like an inverted triangle, I think about what I want to in first, and then everything that I do all the activities that I plan, everything that I teach, revolves around this end goal, how is what I'm planning, go going to accomplish this. That one isn't important, not for me. And I also want my students to have this end goal in mind. And then I added it with this last statement, and I'm going to read this.

I have it in black on my the piece that I had written down right here. But I also decided to type it out so you can follow along in either place. And yet, despite all of these truths, from one to 10, on how we learned, we are all unique individuals with different experiences and memories, talents, skills, interests, and background knowledge that impacts how we learn are how quickly we learn it. And this is why I believe in having a personalized plan for students in place that allows me to come alongside them to know them personally, and to know that what works for one student may not work for the next. And that is an important principle that I always keep in mind. We're unique, we're beautiful, and different, and that is vital in the classroom because there is not one student who is like another.

So I hope having these 10 key teaching principles outlined for you also inspires you in your philosophy statement. And I would encourage you to go and write down your pedagogical principles because it will help you write your philosophy statement. And hopefully, what you know about learning affects what you also know about teaching and or what you believe about teaching, and how you approach each lesson with your students. So with that said, I want you to go ahead and go to your workbook and I want you to write 10 key principles about learning that not just what you believe, but what do you know to be true? And I want you to write those down because they will affect what you write in your philosophy statement.