Teaching Theories Within The Classroom

My personal philosophy of special education drives not from teaching in the field, but from, observations, and personal experience, and the workshops I attended. I have had the opportunity to work with individuals with special needs in many different settings, all this help cultivate my knowledge in handling the needs of the special needed student. Special needs students have the ability to learn, to function, to grow, and most importantly to succeed. The difference comes into how they learn or how they need to be taught. There are as many beliefs about the "hows" as there are teachers and each of us forms our own philosophy through our experiences and research. As a student in a special education teachers’ program, learners with

Teachers have an important task of translating learning theories into practice. Knowledge about learning theories allows teachers to consider different approaches and apply various techniques and valuable strategies in specific contexts and with specific learners to promote learning. This essay will provide an insight into three well-known theories of how children learn. It will examine Behaviourism, Social Constructivism and Humanism and how these learning theories underpin a range of pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning and promote inclusive practice.

From my perspective, the purpose of education is for one to develop their knowledge, skills, and social connection as they learn lifelong measures to help succeed through life, with the support from school staff and one’s family (Hofer, 2002). Education is the foundation of acknowledging what one know and how they know what they know. Different techniques such as tests, quizzes, benchmarks, reading one-on-one, and tutoring to proceed to the next grade are all forms of learning and recalling knowledge that goes on in the school setting.

This essay discusses two of the theories surrounding children's learning and development. It further goes on to discuss how they could be used to inform practice in the classroom. The two theories to be discussed are Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory.

School is meant to educate the student regarding the core subjects. Teaching core subjects has been the primary purpose

The educator can take a holistic approach to teaching and learning, and plan to cultivate all dimensions of the developing child such as moral, social-emotional, physical, creative, psychological, as well as intellectual. Decisions regarding the well-being and education of students must be based on developmentally appropriate practices as well as knowledge of the students’ age and stage, their individual needs, and their family and cultural background (2004). In order to implement developmentally appropriate practices and holistic teaching, a teacher must take the time to know and understand the students – through observation, interaction, active listening and involvement. A teacher should understand how issues of human diversity can impact families, cultures, and schools, and how these complex human issues can interact with issues in the delivery of special education services (2004). A teacher must understand the relationships of organizations of special education to the organizations and functions of schools, school systems, and other agencies (2004). This knowledge can be the ground upon which to construct the teachers own personal understandings and philosophies of special education. To make a student

Education plays a significant role in everyone's life. The purpose of education is to better our society as a whole. I believe education expands the minds of children and helps to give them a guideline on how to survive in the world. The purpose of a teacher is to provide students with an array of beliefs and views, which will later allow the students to create their own ideas about what is important in the world. The main goal of most teachers is to enforce ideas that they believe will be most valuable for a child's life.

Educators preserve technique before educating learners’ abilities effectively influence students. Ordinarily, the effectiveness of an educator entrusts dynamic various strategies educate learners. However, learners retain brilliant approach ahead of comprehending findings. I acquire a personal philosophy through reading chapter three & chapter 4 in Foundations of American Education. My personal philosophy is Behaviorism seeing it is similar to the school I worked at as an Teacher’s Assistant. The ideas are similar to what I do currently. The ensuing paper presents my philosophy on special education seeing purpose of schooling, nature of learnings, curriculum,

The purpose of education is to help students master basic subjects and explore areas of interest. By educating students, we provide them useful information that helps them make future career choices. A child who enjoys science projects may decide to be a laboratory researcher, a student interested in the drama club may choose the theater or acting as their career. A comprehensive approach to education can provide windows of opportunities for young people who are willing to open them.

The purpose of education is to help children learn core subject skills and mature into independent learners with responsibility and become leaders. Bruner cited in Driscoll (2005) focuses on “complex ideas and proposes that develop in children, as a function of an interaction within their environment and personal growth experiences” (Driscoll, 2005, p. 229). Bruner focus on how children interact with their environment, and personal experiences. For example, children like to initiate solving problems and conflicts about things in the classroom, like computers, bulletin boards, and textbooks.

Education directs students to a more meaningful and fulfilled life. When looking at the world, satisfaction and contentment are rare virtues. I have realized that the people in this world are constantly searching for direction. School is a place that offers opportunities of hope, knowledge, and a future.

TPACK-L is UConn revision of an existing framework for teachers’ competency with technology that expands Mishra and Koeler’s TPACK framework by adding Learning Theory (Slota, Young, Choi, & Lai, 2014). Although the TPACK framework on which it is based proposed the way to understand how to integrate technology in the classroom as a unique body of knowledge, technology integration practice is, more often than not, thought of as a set of pedagogical skills or strategies to simply utilize technology in pursuit of effective instruction. Given the omission of learning theory from the teacher competency framework, it might mislead us to understand teacher competencies as merely a skill-based knowledge (i.e., teaching as a straightforward enterprise). Yet, teaching is a complex intellectual work necessary to have a solid understanding of the foundational theories and knowledge about learning that drives effective instruction (Wilson & Peterson, 2006). Furthermore, without understanding the learning theory that underlay a particular innovation of a technology-supported instruction (e.g., Papert’s Logo, CTGV’s Jasper Woodbury videodisc series, educational games/simulations like Quest Atlantis or River City Project), teachers’ technology integration can cause fatal mutations of the implementation, which means that their practices may end up with being in opposition to the theory behind the designed program, not doing what researchers intended.

The role of education in society and in the development of the Self, is to allow an individual to develop both sociologically and psychologically. A transfer of knowledge is a necessity, but purpose of education should be to motivate the students to choose a way to live that benefits them the most as an individual. Most of the issues with past and some current education systems come a teacher who simply deposits knowledge onto students and doesn’t give them any room to expand upon it or ask questions.

The next stage in the development of special education was segregatioin that sought to iinvolve student with disabilities in the same learning instutions as all other students, but in in isolate classrooms. However, this changed upon the enactment of the all handicapped Children Act of 1975, which introduced mainstreaming. This had a postive implication in that handicapped chidren were included and encouregaed to particpate in regualr classrooms hence the period of integration dawned. This was a remarkable achievement and the Act pertaining to education for the handicapped was amended to include six new critical elements in fostering special education. These elements were: parental participation in the special education process, legititmate process to enforece accountability, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to formulate a custom program for each student, Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) that allowed the disabled children in regular classrooms as much as possible, A program to find and assess disabled children in a fair manner, free and approprioate public education (FAPE) for all children.

Education has become the most necessary tool in the world that we live in today. There isn’t much you can do today in the world without at least some form of education. Education has a lot of purposes in our world today. People’s opinions differ about the purpose of education, but most people’s still revolve around the same idea in a sense. Personally, I believe that the purpose of education is to help people integrate and function efficiently in society. Education is used to make sure that when people get into the real world they are able to actually survive. I have a lot of goals for my students, but the biggest thing for me is that I want to be successful in whatever they decide they want to do. No one is the same so I understand that all of my students are going to go down different paths in terms of careers. I just want them to do their best and be successful in their field and just be successful in life overall.