The practice of teaching is constantly evolving, changing and adapting.

The classroom is never confined to one specific skill, philosophy or dynamic; however it has one common goal, to help students succeed. The art of teaching involves constant practice of trial and error. As students should partake in the process of exploring for answers through practice, so should educators. As we teach students how to critically think and create differentiated instruction for diversified learning, there are going to be more than a few bumps in the road along the way. While our students are developing into intellectual thinkers, the art of teaching is rapidly shifting. It is constantly seeking new technology, methods and ways to interact with students in the hope that they will become brighter, focused and more ualified individuals than graduates from the past.. The progressive dynamic of teaching is extremely exciting. The classroom community has the potential to build mountains of inspiration, passions, uestions and originated ideas that can change a child!s world. It is classrooms like these that inspired me to seek a career in teaching. Teaching goes far beyond meeting standards, and assuring high test scores. It is the smile on a child!s face when he finally understands extensive grammar rules, it is the satisfaction in the eyes of a student who sees herself as an "average# student who recogni$ed a ma%or theme in a complex text. Identifying a student!s strengths and allowing them to utili$e them to see their endless capabilities results in a healthy classroom, an area where everyone is welcome, regardless of skin, religion, sex, background, culture. It is an area where students feel safe and comfortable to share newly found ideas that they find relevant and relatable to their lives. As a class we will find ways to work together and grow as individuals, accepting trial and error processes as mechanisms for understanding. In my classroom there is no such thing as a dumb uestion, and I will occasionally allow for students to revise papers for I believe that learning should not be strictly grade based; otherwise, there is no learning in this process. &olding students to deadlines will be important however. Allowing for students to work to formulate good papers into great papers is something that I believe will benefit them in their education far more than failing a student because he didn!t get it# the first time. I will hold my students to high standards, pushing them to take on harder complex texts and providing them with opportunities to challenge themselves. I will not only assure every student is challenged fairly but that all students are learning how to challenge themselves. Teaching involves extensive collaboration where students work with one another and learn from one another. 'ust as students learn from teachers, students e ually learn from students. (y classroom will be centered around student) centered writing and revising. It is not my %ob to simply critici$e a student!s writing and give them a grade; it is my %ob to assist them in exploring their own versions of learning and provide them with development strategies and skills to always improve. An educator!s responsibility is to provide the skills for students to access information, not to simply tell them the information. It is an educator!s responsibility to assist them in expanding on research to find new and fresh ideas and concepts. I will contribute to all students! learning processes, helping them find their identity through daily writing activities that involve critical thinking and analy$ing of short readings or complex texts. I will assist them in capturing their personal voice through multi)media pro%ects, group practices, creative writing assignments, cohesive poetry assignments daily writing activities. I believe strongly in students writing everyday to process information, whether that writing be informal or formal. Assuring that my students are familiar with multiple social media sites, are aware of particular audiences that will be reading their writing, and that they are always writing and reading for a purpose. (y teaching will always be for a purpose, therefore their learning will be for a purpose. They will be constantly reminded of this concept. In my classroom my students will know that they are intelligent thinkers and creators because they will constantly be reminded that they are capable, and that although learning can be extremely challenging their discussions, arguments and sharing of ideas in the classroom will provide them with the skills that they need to be active and successful members of society. A professor once told me, "&ow you live your days is how you live your life.# I try to remind myself of this ama$ing concept as often as I can, and will look at this when working with my students. *ot a second of time that I have to work with these students will go wasted. (y classroom will have purpose in reaching the same important reali$ation.