The mission statement helps your team to be very clear about what you try to achieve and how you plan to achieve it. A sample mission statement could read as follows:
"This is Serlo Politics. Our aim is to provide free, quality content that is easy to understand and enables pupils to learn interactively and at their own pace. Serlo Politics will offer a selection of helpful articles, elaborate courses, videos and solved exercises. Serlo Politics is non-partisan, encourages critical thinking and aims at understanding the world of politics from a variety of standpoints and from a global perspective. We do this by building a volunteer community of teachers and students who are passionate about free education and teaching politics."
Components of the Mission Statement
There are fixed components in bold that should stay the same. And there are flexible components in regular font that should be edited by you:
"This is Serlo Politics. Our aim is to provide free, quality content that is easy to understand and enables pupils to learn interactively and at their own pace. Serlo Politics will offer a selection of helpful articles, elaborate courses, videos and solved exercises. Serlo Politics is non-partisan, encourages critical thinking and aims at understanding the world of politics from a variety of standpoints and from a global perspective. We do this by building a volunteer community of teachers and students who are passionate about free education and teaching politics."
Write your Mission Statement
As you can see, the components that should be written by you are subject-specific and vary individually from subject to subject. They are about what you think is important for teaching your subject and what you find fascinating about it. This part of the statement should also include which kind of social or ecological impact you strive to achieve by teaching your subject.
In order to get a better idea about that, you should go back to the first questions you thought about at the beginning of the course. After having created a team and having done some research, can you improve your answers?
