Educational Philosophy. By: Asha Mckenzie. "Do What You

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. “ Those words, spoken by Confucius, represent the goal of not only mine, but many others when it comes to finding your true calling. The voyage to find your purpose in life can be quite difficult. Often times this journey proves too challenging and forces an individual to give up all together and instead settle for something easier to obtain and inferior to their original goal. This can commonly lead to feelings of unfulfillment and regret in the choices you have made. It’s not until you find your true calling that you go from thinking about your job as something that you have to do to something that you love doing.

Constructivist teaching. Muijs and Reynolds (2005) interpreted that the principles of constructivist teaching consider all learners construct knowledge for themselves, rather than absorbing knowledge directly from the teacher. This means that every pupil will learn something slightly differently from a particular lesson given. The assumption that pupils are active knowledge constructers has several consequences. For examples, the learners need to be active in order to construct knowledge or to learn effectively, teaching is about helping children construct their own meaning rather than training them to get the right answer without the actual understanding of the concept, and pupils learn best when new lessons are clearly related to what they already know,

I see my life as a series of experiences that build upon one another and, through my hard work and determination, lead to overall long and short term goals that I have set for myself. There are thousands upon thousands of things that affect my life both directly and indirectly all of which have varying degrees of influence on me. Three areas of my life that most certainly have had a profound impact on me are scholarship, spiritual formation, and service. These three areas have affected me positively, and have motivated me to pursue higher levels of education, and have challenged me to set my lifetime goals higher. Though I'm not exactly sure where I will end up in life, I know that if I let my academics, spirituality, and service

Albert Einstein once said, “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” This quote describes the responsibilities and standards of teaching children. I believe that teachers should be held to high standards for being the foundation of a student’s education and well-being. For my future students, my responsibilities as a future educator include supplementing the growth of a variety of students’ knowledge and creativity, abiding as a role model for students and colleagues, and understanding the issues in the foundations of education.

As a teacher, my philosophy of education focuses on the individual child and their educational needs. I would like my students to feel comfortable, develop their communication skills, and build positive character traits. Along with encouraging the children to grow in a positive way, I will treat children equally for grading along with providing them with the skills they need in order to achieve the most they can academically.

People have a hard time figuring out what they were meant to do in life, leading to numerous jobs before they settle on one. Sometimes these struggles to find what they are meant to do, lead people to completely changing career fields. I believed that my purpose in life, as I entered college, was to help lead the young people of today. While finishing up my bachelors degree in Elementary and Middle Childhood Studies at The Ohio State University, I knew that I wanted to continue my education and obtain a masters degree. Throughout my entire undergrad, I spent time as a varsity football assistant coach. That feeling of wanting to lead along with my coaching experience influenced me to pursue a graduate degree through a program deeply rooted in leadership.

His findings revealed that educators construct tasks that require behavioral learning to take place instead of cognitive active tasks. Therefore stating although the child may be engrossed within the activity, they may not be learning (Sweller, 1988). Kirchner et al (2006) agree with constructivist that the learner must construct their own knowledge, however they do question the theoretical framework behind the idea. Especially the idea of the mentors constructing unguided tasks, that depends upon the learner to locate or compose essential information for themselves (Kirchner, 2006). However we must question the competence of ages here and not all children are able to achieve

Hi Adrienne! Although your post is somewhat different from mine, I find your reminder about pivotal moments in our path on life incredibly encouraging. In my post I discussed the fact that God’s desired result for my life was to become a mother, and I believe that in order to become a mother, God needed me to become a teacher as well. Although I did not begin my pursuit of a degree in the field of education, somewhere deep down I always knew that I wanted to be a teacher. It was not until I received a bachelor’s in business administration, and a promised job following graduation, that I understood where God was directing my life. Following the merger of two major companies, the job that I was promised upon graduation was eliminated.

The constructivist learning theory of cooperative learning, children are not passive learners (Tan, 2015). They should learn new things that build upon old knowledge and their learning should be actively reinforced (Tan, 2015). Learning should incorporate a student centred approach which should be monitored by the professional. The teacher should promote students learning and organise groups sufficiently (Tan, 2015).

We all have a calling in life. A few years ago while enjoying a delicious dinner with my family, I began to daydream staring through my kitchen window. Worried by the blank look in my eyes, my wife Kim leaned over towards me to ask what thoughts were going through my head. “I am having an epiphany”, I told her. I knew that if I push myself physically, emotionally, and spiritually I can succeed in the pursuit journey.

In my classroom I like to encourage creativity and analytical thinking. In order to establish this it’s important to focus on the whole child. “A whole child approach to education is defined by policies, practices, and relationships that ensure each child,

God made me for a purpose, and up until recently I believe I I've found what the purpose is. Throughout my whole life serving others was always what came naturally to me, and it was particularly evident in the way that I interacted with children. During college I tried computer science and I thought that it was what I wanted to do. However if I have to be honest with myself, part of it was what i wanted to do, but the other part was that I believed that's what people expected me to do. I got into a habit of starting strong, and dying out. I believe the reason for that was because it was not what I truly wanted to do. However that all boiled to a point when I was working 40 hours and lying around for 30 hours doing nothing with my life. My parents

Like I stated earlier in my paper, I totally agree that classes such as math and English are important classes for children to have in school, but I feel just as strongly for them to be able to express themselves through their creativity such as drawing, dancing, drama or playing sports. I think it is totally wrong for such activities to be taken away from children, because it is not allowing them to truly express themselves and to become the people they are intended to be. This can surely cause a child to become hopeless, lost, and develop low self-esteem and this wouldn’t be good for the

The knowledge that is obtained or can be obtained through students is in my opinion learned as one progresses through life. Most students learn things by practicing or doing them and this is something that creates a knowledge. Everyone remember something better when it’s something that they found out on their own or practiced. The more that time goes on, the more experiences you endure which increases knowledge on what you had before. With this being said, I believe that educators should provide an opportunity for students to learn through experiences and to solve for their own problem because if they are able to work through an experience or problem then they will most likely remember the information better. Students should learn problem solving and thinking for themselves to solve their questions and working with one another or even asking questions. All subjects would be able to involve problem solving, group work, or asking

With more than these in mind, Dr Montessori emphasises the importance of imagination in children. Maria Montessori said “Free the child 's potential, and you will transform him into the world”. When she said this, she also meant that imagination is one of the child’s potential that can be broadened over time.