Ms. Kasuni's Teaching Philosophy

    According to me, a teacher should be one of the comfort zones that a child can have in his or her life. Because in order to make the teaching-learning process a successful one the students should have a space to freely express themselves as they are and that is when a teacher can answer the needs of the students. It is more like how a well-skilled doctor diagnoses the illnesses of his patients. If the patient cooperates accordingly only the doctor will be able to do the treatments to cure the illness. Likewise, a well-trained teacher would be able to successfully diagnose the needs and the lack of language skills that the students have, if only the students are able to truly showcase themselves and then the teacher will eventually find ways to overcome their language difficulties. 

    I honestly do not believe that teachers should maintain so-called traditional authoritative roles in their ways of shaping students. What actually succeeds according to my experience is that if a child cannot learn the way we teach, then that is not at all an issue with the child, the teacher should be smart enough to research the ways that are the most suitable for each student. In that way, we will be able to find the perfect mechanism to teach in ways that the students learn. Moreover, the teacher should not isolate his or her practice from the theoretical knowledge. It is a matter of finding the best recipe to address the students' needs by successfully blending all the factors that affect the teaching-learning process.