Teaching philosophy

I liked the point that Dennis made in class about developing your teaching philosophy. He said that when he was looking at jobs, if they did not want you to write about your personal teaching philosophy in the application, then do you really want to work for them.
I think that it is important to document your personal teaching philosophy. For the application to the MAT program we had some writing prompts that kind of followed that idea, and also when I applied to the Medford School Dist. I had to write along those same lines of what my personal philosophy of education includes.
I like that he provided samples of teaching philosophies. This is yet another thing that I will personally review annually. It does change from year to year. I think that it is already up for revision after my first year in the schools (part time).