Writing a Philosophy Statement: An Educator's Workbook

Writing a Philosophy Statement: An Educator’s Workbook has helped hundreds of preservice and inservice teachers write a clear and concise philosophy of education statement.

This workbook uses proven step-by-step writing strategies resulting in a statement usable in teaching position or graduate school applications. Sample philosophy statements and job interview questions are provided along with strategies to edit the statement.

Users are provided with a Philosophy of Education Scale to evaluate their approach to teaching.

This workbook can help colleges of education meet NCATE standards requirements.

The activities in the workbook include:

• Five approaches to teaching

• Strategies for identifying a personal teaching approach

• A Philosophy of Education Scale

• Six FAST steps for writing and editing

• Using your philosophy statement for job interviews, graduate school applications and in school based leadership positions

• Steps to writing school or district mission statement