Hello, and welcome back to the class on how to write a teaching philosophy statement. In the introduction, we talked about what a teaching philosophy statement is. And it's basically what you believe about teaching and how you're going to implement it in your classroom. So, first, what I encourage you to do before starting this process is do some research, read some books that would encourage you or inspire you in solidifying what you believe. So this is my list. I've actually included it on page five of the workbook that I've included in this class under the class projects.
And you are more than welcome to use any one of these resources. I highly encourage them. I really enjoyed the books that I read on the websites that I visited, and I I even watched a YouTube video by Dr. Christopher parent. I really enjoyed that one as well. I took a lot away from it. Dorothy Sayers, she, she's actually quite wonderful.
I don't know if you've heard of the famous authors, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, but she was actually part of the Table Talk conversations that JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis used to have in coffee shops or around the table, drinking a beer. She was part of that. And I didn't know it until I read this book, but I'm very glad that I did. She is she says it how it is, is what I'm trying to say. And also she has a bit of sarcasm in her and it's quite beautiful. And the other page that I really appreciated was this website, thanks to Vanderbilt.
And what it has is an inventory quiz. And it's just kind of fun to do those things. Especially when you're trying to write a philosophy statement and you're just stumped in the process. So that's what I would start with is gathering a group of resources that you would be able to use to not copy. That's not the goal, but it's to inspire you, and maybe get the ball rolling. So I have on your workbook, the questions and then I have some research guide for you, but also the list of these resources that I hope that you put to use.
If you have any questions about doing your own research, and how that affected what I wrote. Please don't hesitate to ask me