I am currently a computer teacher for middle school students in the inner city, the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. It is a pretty tough neighborhood with students who experience things at home that I couldn’t even imagine happening when I was a child.
When I began getting my Master’s Degree back in 2005 at Walden University’s online MS in Education program with a focus on Integrating Technology in the classroom (what a mouthful for a degree), I took a course called teacher as a Professional. For the course, we wrote a mission statement and were told to look at it often and reflect upon ways to carry out our mission daily. One way to help teachers reflect is to have positive feedback from others. Therefore, I am posting my mission statement with the hope that I will receive many comments, feedback and suggestions as to how I can live this daily.
Mission Statement of Mrs. Defuria
My mission is to empower students to believe that they can be successful in school and life when they remain focused, persistent, flexible, open-minded, team-oriented, and express themselves creatively. To do this I will practice and model these same habits that I want my students to possess.
I would like my students to remember me as the teacher who listened to them, respected them, understood them, inspired them to think critically, and to work together as a team. Most importantly I want to be the teacher who believed that they could achieve their goals with persistence and determination.
By viewing this mission statement daily, it will remind me to be positive and to encourage my students to make the right choices when they behave in ways that upset or frustrate me.
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