If the students are happy at the end of the day, so am I. If not happy, I must have missed something. I need to work harder to make them happy.

A nice question Dr Catia Cillóniz ma'am.

My teaching philosophy is simple as pie: Teach like it is your last day today! Try to give your abecedarians all of your knowledge so that knowledge can grow and expand to an extent where novelties can bloom and be implemented in order to exercise them for bridging up the loopholes which exist in our societies today.

I am in this profession of teaching in an university for about 21 years. Every time whenever I am going to teach a class as a part of this noble profession .....I am learning also. I am trying consistently ....how to represent, interpret, summarize and rethink about the whole concept I wish to teach or rather inspire my students in a specific period of time assigned to me.

My teaching philosophy:

TO TEACH MY STUDENTS HOW TO LEARN.....and not simply WHAT TO LEARN.

Teaching is a noble profession. One does not go into teaching for the money but rather for the twinkle in the eyes of a student when they have understood a concept you taught them or figured out for themselves how to solve a problem based on your guidance. Teachers are facilitators making things happen in the class room and outside. The greatest compliment is when a student (whom you may have taught long ago) approaches you on the bus or in the market place and tells us something like, "You really helped me learn..."

Teaching should be done with passion. 💜

Once you find your students not able to understand a particular concept you should be ready to adapt new methods of teaching to explain to them.😊

I feel that teacher should act as a guide to allow the student to choose his method of learning. He should share his experiences which give them vital life lessons.🌷

I always feel I learn from my students.

The most recent words of appreciation by a parent "I really appreciate the efforts taken by you and your husband in educating my daughter to become a good doctor."💞

I agree with Srini Vasan

If the students are happy at the end of the day, so am I. If not happy, I must have missed something. I need to work harder to make them happy.

I enjoy teaching, but within my own specialty.....

I have been teaching in the Department of Earth Sciences, Benghazi University since 2006 until now. I teach both undergraduate and graduate students. I love teaching and researching.

Best Regards Catia Cillóniz

Dera Catia,

You ask the following: "Describe your teaching experience. How do you feel about teaching?  What is your teaching philosophy?

Let me start by saying that I believe that teaching is the noblest professor all over the world. Suffice it to say that only education can save societies and individuals from possible collapse, be it violent or gradual. Of course, education is costly, but it is far less costly than its alternative, ignorance.

I have been a university professor of developmenal psychology (my area of speacialization) for several decades and taught at the undergraduate and graduate level

While teaching, I feel good and happy when my students feel also good and happy because they learnt the key points of my lectures. When my students are not truly satisfied with the content of my teaching, I tell them that on the next classroom, I will explain to them what I have missed in the current lecture. I am not afraid of telling my students that there could be some occasions where I don't know. Indeed, there is always an unknown to be known, and the more we know the more ignorant we are, which they generally accept.

While teaching, I am more a mentor and organizer of learning experiences and situations, such that my students actively understand, reinvent and reconstrcut everything they learn, than a simple transmitter of ready made and established truths imposed on them from outside. In other words, I avoid indoctrination and brainwashing. This means that I make use of the active methods, not the traditional or conservative ones, and appeal to due technology when it is appropriate.

While teaching, I tend to be an authoritative, not an authoritarian nor permissive professor. Authoritative figures are demanding in intellectual terms, but warm in terms of social interaction; authoritarian figures are demanding in cognitive terms, but cold in terms of social interaction; and permissive figures are guided, say, by the slogan "laissez faire, laissez passer, laissez aller" (Let it go). There is accumulated evidence that shows that generally students feel happy with authoritative teachers/professors, and unhappy with both authoritarian and permissive professors and teachers.

As for my teaching philosophy, I follow to main ideas. First, to teach students such that they become capable of dispensing with me qua professor in a more or less near future. Second, to teach students such that they become able to raise what I call "irrititating" questions and doubts. Irritating questions are those whose answer advances knowledge and leads us to a better knowledge of the unknown. Of course, irritating questions are also irritating for the satus quo and the mainstream. In other words, irritating questions, so to peaak, irritate the status quo and the mainstream because such question challenge what is established and look for a better knowdedge of the unknown (see, for example, the irritation of Catholic Church because of Newton's challenge of the geocentric theory). As I see it, all great scientists, minds, and thinkers were able to raise irritating questions and challenge the status quo.

I teach and also perform conceptual and empirical research. If we do not perform research we hardly have something new to teach. This is mainly applicable at the graduate level.

Best regards,

Orlando

I like teaching in my own specialty only

There is a big difference between being a teacher and a facilitator. And yes teachers need to be paid and should be paid more than any other profession.

Teaching has helped me in learning and exploring language through research

Dear Orlando M Lourenço ,

I really appreciate and highly recommend your thoughts about teaching.

While teaching, I tend to be an authoritative, not an authoritarian. Authoritative figures are demanding in intellectual terms, but warm in terms of social interaction; authoritarian figures are demanding in cognitive terms, but cold in terms of social interaction; and permissive figures are guided, say, by the slogan "laissez faire, laissez passer, laissez aller" (Let it go). There is accumulated evidence that shows that generally students feel happy with authoritative teachers/professors, and unhappy with both authoritarian and permissive professors and teachers.

As for my teaching philosophy, I follow to main ideas. First, to teach students such that they become capable of dispensing with me qua professor in a more or less near future. Second, to teach students such that they become able to raise what I call "irrititating" questions and doubts. Irritating questions are those whose answer advances knowledge and leads us to a better knowledge of the unknown. Of course, irritating questions are also irritating for the status quo and the mainstream. In other words, irritating questions, so to peak, irritate the status quo and the mainstream because such question challenge what is established and look for a better knowledge of the unknown (see, for example, the irritation of Catholic Church because of Newton's challenge of the geocentric theory). As I see it, all great scientists, minds, and thinkers were able to raise irritating questions and challenge the status quo.

Best Regards

Halima

As once a friend said" Teaching is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and intervening so that they learn particular things, and go beyond the given ".