In approximately two pages, define your educational platform: your beliefs, opinions, values, and attitudes which provide a foundation for your teaching, and the reasons you deem them important. Cover the following points, but more in a narrative format than a listing. Try to be honest about your beliefs in action in terms of how you actualize these beliefs in practice, or why you don't act on some beliefs to the extent to which you would like, or about inconsistencies you know exist. Conclude with your developing beliefs about the activity of supervising.

All platforms need not contain all these elements, and can contain other elements you consider important. The important thing is to have a sense of what your own platform is, rather than to construct a perfect, consistent statement. (see the reading for detailed descriptions)

1. The aims of education: the three most important aims of education, for the youngsters in your school system.

2. Major achievements of students by the end of a year in your classroom.

3. The social significance of the student's learning: how they will fit in the big picture.

4. The image of the learner: how do students learn?

5. The image of the curriculum: what is it important to learn.

6. The image of the teacher: your part in the big picture.

7. The preferred pedagogy: how will learning progress in your classroom? Approaches?

8. The preferred school climate: tone, discipline, morale, classroom to school to outside.

9. A unifying image or metaphor embedded in your practice.

10. The purpose or goal of supervision.

11. The preferred process of supervision.