Educational Philosophy

I believe that I am proficient in establishing a classroom setting that calls upon the students to learn in an individual and collaborative manner. I believe that I have sufficiently encouraged positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation. I have shown this in learning activities that have been presented to the students. An example of this would be with the placard assignment, which had the students fill out a sheet that corresponded to four maps to help them figure out what artifacts certain cultural regions would use. During this learning segment, students would have to be self directed after the directions were given, the students would have to use collaborative skills, and they were all engaged during

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.

Cooperative learning is one of the best studied academic strategies in the history of educational research, with over 1,000 research studies on the subject dating as far back as 1898 (Stanne, Johnson & Johnson, 1999). There are so many studies, in fact, that the most easily to get to point of entry into the literature is meta-analyses of large numbers of studies. The most important piece of information is that cooperative learning models have been established to have an obviously positive impact on student achievement.

The method of teaching that I hope to use the most frequently in my classroom is cooperative learning. I feel that cooperative learning, if used correctly, is a wonderful way for students to interact with one another. However, this style of

My personal philosophy of education was thought of when I was little before I really acknowledged it or knew exactly what it was. My ideas of school has been collecting for years, ever since kindergarten. I've always thought of school as something that is important. I went to school everyday and did my work and moved on to the next thing I needed to do. I did what I was suppose to, not because I enjoyed it but because I knew I had to. School has always been kinda boring and uninteresting to me actually. I dedicated myself to putting school first and second anything else. I never understood the students who let their education just go down the drain and not care about what grades they got and that's exactly what I want to

According to this theory, critical awareness requires recognition that the social status of an individual, including educational and economic prospects and opportunities, is largely result from its race, gender, and class so the critical theorists want to raise the consciousness of these people dealing with education, knowledge, the school, and teaching and learning. Furthermore, they see the curriculum into 2 parts: the official curriculum which requires teaching subjects and specific skills, and the Hidden curriculum which imposes approved behaviors and attitudes on students through the school environment. They believe that teachers should empower themselves, because they can transform schools into democratic public spheres.

During diurnal period in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding out just what education is”. In response, his own view on the term is presented in this piece as it is consistent with the basis of this philosophy. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”. John Dewey, 1859-1952, philosopher, psychologist, education reformer. My ultimate goal is to teach ideas that that are so outstanding that they live forever, in order to find truths which are consistent. It is my belief that the curriculum is essential knowledge and skills and academic rigor that must be learnt by students in order for them to function effectively in society.

If the best of us will be teachers and the rest something else, then I hope the best of us will also be students. I believe we are all students and I expect I will learn as much from my students as they will learn from me. I hope more than anything though, that my students will value the simple act of obtaining knowledge more than worrying about getting every graded detail correct. If a student cannot enjoy the learning process, they are not going to truly learn the subject content. There are certainly distinct pieces of knowledge that all students need. Students may not always enjoy absorbing these pieces of knowledge, but hopefully there will be individualized interests that make the process easier. I

The purpose of education is to gain knowledge about general and complex skills, for example reading, writing, math, etc. Education gives students the necessary knowledge to function in today’s society. Education prepares children for their future. Education prepares students to be responsible citizens, creative thinkers, and follow directions. The main purpose of education is to help develop student’s minds. Education helps give young people exposure to the world. Without education people would not be able to function properly in society. The world would become an unsafe place and there would be social chaos. Education is the foundation to an order society with each person developed to his or her full potential.

Around 2,300 years ago, Aristotle raised many issues regarding the opposing perspectives about the practice of education. He affirmed that there is no universal accord about whether education should be directed more towards intellectual objectives or towards the character of the individual. He also proposed that there is doubt about whether education should be aimed at notion valuable for everyday life or at notions approving to virtues. As a matter of fact, modern day educators are still deliberating the concerns Aristotle raised. Ultimately, the most primitive dilemma the philosophy of education is its differing aims. Philosophers of education question, what are the proper aims and leading principles of education? What is the appropriate criterion for assessing academic attempts, educational institutions, procedures, and outcomes? In fact, diverse proposals to resolving these significant affairs have given rise to contrasting schools of thought in the philosophy of education. This exploratory paper will analyze and inquire three schools of thought: Essentialism, Critical Theory and Pragmatism. Each of these schools of thought considers their principles the best. The paper will conclude with my viewpoint as to where I situate my philosophy of education among these three schools of thought.

My philosophy is to do something I love. I realized that teaching was my passion by experiencing many other things that weren’t. I tried to immerse myself in other topics, such as business but it just did not feel right to me. By pursing education I can do something I love every day. I believe it is very important to have a strong passion and knowledge in the field you choose to follow. From my past experiences, to educate one another, one must have a strong backbone so the students know what they will be learning. Teachers are far to pushed over if you let students do it. I know as a student I witnessed many teachers changing their ways and more importantly values, to help students. My thoughts on that are different. Therefore, I will describe want I would want to see in my classroom. I find progressivism to be my main focus in my philosophy.

Cooperative learning is classroom structure that incorporates the collaboration of students into small groups to work together for an overall community goal. It is a structure to maximize each student’s educational strengths in a classroom setting to achieve, not only academic success but also social learning experience. How to implement students in cooperative learning make it difficult versus traditional individualism teaching, where the success of the student relies on each student. There three different types of cooperative learning: Formal, Informal and Cooperative Base Groups. Each type has different benefits of interdependence structured depending on how individuals interact with each other, to determine the overall outcome.

To start with, cooperative learning is an efficient method of teaching in higher education as it enhances students’ academic performance, self-esteem and interactions with peers. Johnson and Johnson (1989 cited in Hermann, 2013,p.175) stated that ‘Cooperation exists when individuals work together in a group in order to promote both their individual learning outcomes as well as the learning outcomes of their peers’. This target of cooperative learning is accomplished by the fact that students put mutual effort into completing tasks

When understanding education there are many different ways which the purpose of education may be applied and defined. My personal philosophy of education is, 'educators must nurture/guide students within the academic field, to that the aims, goals and results during this task of educating or being educated are achieved '. This philosophy is used to understand that both teachers and students play an integral role in education. Academic performance, classroom methods/practices and also meeting the requirements of both the senior secondary Australian Curriculum Framework and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Framework are examples of these roles. This essay will discuss in detail how my personal philosophy of education, reflects on the role of teachers and learners, the aim of education and the methods and practices used in the classroom. Jean Jacques Rousseau, Paulo Freire, Locke, and Plato/Socrates are the four theorists that shall be used within this essay, to support claims and justify statements regarding this philosophy. John Dewey and A.S Neil are two non-supporting theorists that shall be used in contrast to justify this philosophy.

In this unit we will discuss the inter-dependence of philosophy and education. After discussing the impact of philosophy on education and vice-versa, we will describe briefly the different schools of philosophy viz. Naturalism, Idealism and Pragmatism, and their implications for education in curriculum, role of the teacher and the nature of discipline. While explaining the ideas advocated by different schools of philosophy on above concepts, this unit will also incorporate the views of both Western as well as Indian thinkers.