1. Jianhao, PGDE JC 2010
“Prior to presenting my e-portfolio, there was quite a bit I had to
go through in order to articulate my thoughts and feelings about
my teaching philosophy, my values and beliefs etc. I guess the
issue was that I’d often thought about these things but they
stayed in my head because there was hardly any reason to
explicitly express them in writing or other forms of media. FC1
allowed me to express myself more clearly, not only to others, but
also to myself. And the process of arriving got me thinking more
about my own position as an educator.”

2. Wayne, PDGE JC 2010
“I felt that I learnt most from my fellow student
teachers in getting to know their teaching
philosophies and how each one of us presented
our portfolios differently. Having to verbalize
my beliefs about teaching actually strengthened
them and reinforced my determination to put
them to practice.”

3. Kelvin, PGDE JC Jul 2010
“The experience of doing FC1 forces you to make certain choices – I could not
present everything I’d learnt; I had to choose the key things which I think
helped me and shaped my beliefs in education… There’s a lot of unstructured
thinking going on, all these ideas come to you and you absorb them, but you
may not have the time to fully form a particular framework to approach issues
about education – but with FC1, because I was forced to think about what was –
it became the foundation of MY philosophy of education. That aspect of
ourselves as educators became more anchored, in terms of the beliefs that we
held dear and certain things that we wanted to do in the course of our teaching
experiences… FC1 was a filter for all these issues and ideas that we picked up
over the course at NIE and we had to decide which were the ones we believed
were right for us.”