Dr. Joshua J. Smith

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Jacksonville, FL 32206

Phone: 904-***-****

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Human Resource Department

IDEA Public School District

My Philosophy of Instruction and Mentoring

As teachers are pressed to extend their craft to prepare more diverse students for the challenge of work and life beyond school, we are challenged to provide more authentic instructional contexts and activities than traditional knowledge-based curricula, beliefs and practices; they must acquire a deep understanding of cognitive and motivational principles of learning and teaching. Toward this end, we must determine how teachers can model and promote self-regulated learning for our students. Three central features characterize self-regulated learning: awareness of thinking, use of strategies, and situated motivation. These features of independent and traditional learning are needed. In order to be successful, instructors must be reflective and analytical about their own experience, constructed, and discussed among teachers, so that we understand how to foster strategies and motivate students rather than delivering curricula or managing students; then the focus of instruction is shifted from classroom behavior.

My classrooms experience and post-graduate studies in general education, business administration, and scholastic writing, college level and elementary/secondary classroom teaching, facilitating adult education, and leadership seminars and workshop have equipped and prepared me to multiple career disciplines

Respectively Submitted,

Joshua Smith, PhD.