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Teaching And Teaching: My Philosophy And Philosophy Of Education

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Teaching is a noble profession which has been in practice for ages. Everything can be taught – from a simple way of living to teaching someone to build a house, for instance. When talking about teaching and learning, we usually tend to think about academic learning where there is a teacher in front of a class, teaching the students. The process of learning deals with acquiring alterations in the existing knowledge, abilities, and ways of life or predilections through experience, practice or exercise. Unfortunately, the teacher is not the only one concerned in the teaching and learning process; the students are part(s) and parcel of this too. Education, for me, contributes greatly to the construction of the identity of a person who is also …show more content…

As a teacher, it is my duty to know who my students are, the type of learners they are, together with their cultures and social backgrounds, the types of knowledge and experiences they bring to the classroom. A class contains students who differ from one another as they have different interests, prior knowledge, assimilation level, motivation, physical abilities, beliefs, and self-esteems, aptitudes, learning styles, cultural values and backgrounds among others and above all, they are unique in their own ways. It is preposterous to treat them as one size fits all. Thereupon, as a teacher, I need to identify the strengths and shortcomings of my students and adapt my teaching by virtue of these differences. Dewey (1897) also embraces this idea of Rousseau’s and mine as he said in his work My Pedagogical Creed that “the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child’s powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself”. My belief about human nature concurs with Dewey which is knowledge is not an inborn quality as human beings are born with the capacity of growth and development (Dewey,

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