To prepare:

• Reflect      on education theorists whose thinking most strongly influences your own.
• Reflect      on your beliefs about the purpose of education.
• Reflect      on your beliefs about the role of a teacher.
• Reflect      on your beliefs about children and your goals for reaching and teaching      every student.
• Reflect      on your understanding how the multiple developmental domains of students      (physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive) affect learning.
• Reflect      on the ethnical responsibilities of a teacher that influence your teaching      philosophy.
• Relief      on your mission as a Walden University teaching candidate to promote      positive change for students, families, and/or communities.
• Consider      other ideas and goals that are part of your current philosophy as a      developing professional educator.