By teaching community members to think critically about the problems that they encounter and to philosophize about the plight of others in their community, we will all be better prepared to build and grow together and improve the lives of everyone involved. o Philosophy of leadership - Leaders provide direction and help guide others towards one common goal. A strong school leader has the ability to teach the specific skills teachers need to be successful while also empowering them to provide the skills and the mindsets that their students will be live successful lives throughout their college and career experiences. o Vision of learners - No learner WANTS to fail. My vision is that all learners develop the mindset and confidence needed to work through difficult situations in order to achieve success. o Visions for teachers - Teachers are mentors. Life will always provide obstacles, good teachers guide and lead students though the thinking processes and skillsets that help their students need to overcome those obstacles. Teachers can gauge where their students are at and provide the supports needed to push their students to where they need to be both academically and …show more content…
To summarize, these include: essentialism (rational thinking, systematized feeding content to individuals); experimentalism (rational scientific thinking, no absolute truths, what one can do and prove today may not be probable tomorrow because a new situation and a different approach may alter yesterday’s reality); and existentialism (the individual is the source of all reality; there is no absolute knowledge)”. I definitely fall somewhere between essentialism and experimentalism. Those two philosophies will heavily guide my approach as a