Teaching in America - Developing a teaching philosophy

My teaching philosophy

I wonder if I am aware of my own teaching philosophy. What has an impact on my own beliefs and how did I developed it? Indeed, I have few teaching experience so I cannot claim to have a profound understanding of how teaching works most effectively and what has led to my own philosophy. Nevertheless, I believe that I have internalized a philosophy without being aware of it.
Teaching and learning are tightly interwoven. I think learning is a highly individual, active and complex process. Everybody has different learning styles and you construct meaning in many different ways so that acquisition of knowledge is always based on prior experiences and pre-existing knowledge. Therefore, the outcome is always different and you cannot teach without taking into account these aspects of learning.
As a teacher you are responsible for your students the essence of teaching should be clear. Students should be taught subject-related content knowledge but I also want to  foster not only the stundens' academic but also social and emotional skills in order to make them actively participate in society.
As mentioned above, teaching is an active process based on experiences so I favor student-oriented teaching methods that are hightly communicative and meets the students' interests and concerns their everyday life. Since i study foreign languages, I want my students to use creative language in authentic communicative situations and I want them to explore the various facetts of the foreign language. Futhermore, I want to promote their communicative skills so that they learn to act in real life when they face a situation in the country of the target language. I think students learn the best if they have a rich learning environment with authentic material and interesting topics as well a connection to their reality. In the classroom, they should not be afraid of making mistakes in a fearful atmosphere. Peer learning and student- and action - oriented tasks are also good learning strategies and conditions since interaction is of great importance.
All in all, I do have a teaching philosophy and I think it has a lot to do with language acquisition and my affliation for languages. My philosophy connects to that important aspect of my life: languages and the process of acquiring and learning a language.