Philosophy of Education

How do I view and magnify those I teach?

Children of God

Have a responsibility to learn continually

Education is an eternal quest

Unlimited potential

Repentance

Children learn by their mistakes and as a teacher I need to remember/recognize that

Point out that lessons can be learned after we fail.

Keep moving forward

Application: draw a bunch of lines intertwining (looks like a mess), and then tell them to create a picture from that.

Help them understand consequences (both good/bad) - 2 Nephi 9:48

Use a "Choose Your Story" book/activity to show how choices can affect us. But then go on to say that we can always try again in life.

What is my work as learner and teacher?

Educator

Trainer

molder

leader

Encouraging

Problem solver

Promote honest learning

“Be a breeding ground for brilliance, optimism, and new thinking”

"Come Follow Me"

Understand doctrine/principles of Jesus Christ = good teacher

Learner

to become educated & seek learning continually

accept their "teacher" as their guide in the learning journey

Maintain humility while learning

Don't come out of 12 years of education only to be a bystander

Never turn your own thinking/thoughts over to another individual

They need to know that they will be learning their whole lives, so they should understand how they learn best and to actively trying to learn new things.

Students should understand that in addition to continually learning, they will also need to know how to think for themselves on the spot

Give kids topics, and have them do an activity that has to do with that topic. Maybe they can write a story, draw a picture.

Have them build something will Legos.

Have them teach me and their classmates what they have been learning.

Study

D&C 58:27; "Be anxiously engaged in a good causes"

Ask questions

James 1:5; "Ask and ye shall receive"

Every month do an activity that will help them figure out what they like and then spend some time throughout the month helping them learn more about that subject.

Give students an opportunity to ask questions with one another and then also to me.

What is worth teaching?

Teach them how to understand - I facilitate/guide their learning. I don't tell them just to listen.

Understanding is the spiritual outcome

If I do this, then they will hopefully know how to understand any truth that comes their way in life

Act on what is being taught

How to learn effectively

Academics & Life Lessons

Become a well-educated member of society

Failing can be turned into a positive thing.

What eternal truths and values do you believe should be shared with all students? - Teaching Philosophy

They should be taught that they are children of God

Means their potential is unlimited

Do an activity where classmates write down the strengths they see in each other

They are worth it and loved

Teach them that the value of things doesn't always come from what they first see.

Examples: a clam, coal/diamond, 5 dollar bill crushed activity, etc.

They are loved!

Taught learning can turn to wisdom

The best students can learn anything anywhere

Repentance

They can have second chances

Charity

Teach the "why" behind the learning

How do I learn?

Learn by the Spirit

The Spirit is the greatest teacher.

Since I will be teaching public school, I can't pray in the classroom. But I can still do things that will encourage the Spirit to be there and hopefully provide the Spirit to teach the kids.

Teachers should not always be in control

Allow small moments throughout the day for the Spirit to help them understand what is being taught.

Meditation for the students

Need to have humility - this encourages the Spirit to be there

Hands on learning

Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?

Common Core

No Child Left Behind Act

Every Student Succeeds Act: more focused on the needs of each individual student's learning

Every child has individual worth, and that can be conveyed as we recognize the different ways each student learns.

Do a variety of learning ranging from hands-on activities to doing lessons outside. Get to know each student and how they best learn.

3 Nephi 11:15; one by one

Set aside time to get to know each individual student. Let them know I care not only about their education, but their likes and dislikes outside of school.

Have each child decorate a name tag full of their favorite things. Then have the members of their group say what they like about each students name tag.

Each child learns differently in education and throughout life. Just as each person feels the Spirit differently.

Focusing on Essentialism - current public education

Demanding more and more out of younger children; this is not allowing them to enjoy the things they should at their age

We need to recognize the nature of learners at all ages

What is the role of school in society?

We are raising the next generation to thrive in society

Moses 7: 18; Zion "they were of one heart and one mind"

Everyone working together creates better results.

As a teacher, I would like to participate in parent/teacher organizations to improve school for the students.

Work with other schools and brainstorm with those teachers and administrators.

As people come together for one righteous cause, it bless the lives of each member.

Get involved with the community to influence good change for everyone, especially the children.

"It takes a village to raise a child"

Massachusetts Bay Colony article:

They have a moral duty

Endow the educator with the means to properly learn

What is the role of learning and teaching in the home?

Parents should encourage learning and cultivate an environment for a desire of learning to grow

Parents are one of the main sources of learning for a child

The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Parents are responsible to teach their children what is right and wrong.

Do an activity where we share what everyone's family rules are.

Children thrive best with both a mother and a father present in the home.

Encourage parents to really participate in Parent-Teacher conference.

Parents should lead their family in wholesome, recreational activities.

Send newsletters home for the kids to do activities with their parents as much as possible. I want to encourage more family time as much as possible.

Parents are one of the main sources of learning for a child

Who am I and what motivates me?

Love

For my future students

Continually Progressing: For continual education and personal growth

Should be service oriented

Get together with another class and do pen-pal sort of activities. Ministering in a way they don't know it.

Find activities/opportunities to do service projects around the school. (Picking up trash around the playground, helping in the lunch room)

Prepare a lesson with each child in mind (individual worth)

Have a compliment wall where classmates write kind things about each other throughout the week

Plan of Salvation

Use connections

Freedom of the Mind

Recognize the humanity of my students

Think like a scholar

Recreate positive conditions that children should have experienced in a loving home

Would there be time for students to meditate and ponder what they learned?

If we admit that in education it is necessary to begin with the experiences which the child
already has and to use his spontaneous and social activity, then the city streets begin this
education for him in a more natural way than does the school.

Teach no limitations

Teaching in small groups and then presenting in front of the class

Start with them sharing with small groups, and then help them transition to speak in front of the class

Application: have them pick random topics and then speak on that for 10 seconds

Help them act on revelation

Help them think and articulate their

Lesson Planning

Activity: do an "Activate Prior Knowledge"

Don't take a middle class perspective on students' lives.

Celestial Culture

Love

Faith

Trust

Honesty

Truth

Fairness

Obedience

Self-control

Devoted

"Technology is stunting thought and wonder"

Use nature as a way to promote thinking and wonder

Encourage them to explore

It is important not to see color, but it is important to recognize different backgrounds and treat them accordingly.

You can't treat every student the same way. They are each different.

Do a family history/genealogy activity

Get to know students and their families

Example from class: Potluck before school starts

Have many different forms of communication between teachers and parents

Progressivism

Purpose of school

Should be focused on the student, not the content or teacher

Students learn through problem solving and making connections to their lives outside of school

Promote democratic society

Role of teacher

Help the students "learn by doing"

Facillitator

Director of learning

Collaborative partner

Research director

Curriculum

Should come from student interests and questions

Experience centered

cooperative learning

Project method

Problem solving

Integrative Units

Pedagogy

Be active, not passive

"Books are tools, not authority"

Classroom Environment

Encourage students to ask questions

Students should experiment

Assessment

Formative evaluation

Emphasize citizenship

Democratic

Community centered

Collaborative

Educational Giants

John Dewey

"school should improve the way of life for our citizens through experiencing freedom and and democracy in schools"

"Education is a process of living, not a preparation for the future."

Nature of Learner

Researcher

Group Oriented

Provides an unselfish atmosphere to learn

Promote democratic society

Behaviorism

Purpose of School

Role of Teacher

Curriculum

Pedagogy

Classroom Environment

"Repetition of a meaningful connection results in learning"

Assessment

Educational Giants

B.F. Skinner

Social Reconstructionism

Purpose of School

critique cultural and social institutions

Prepare change agents

Role of Teacher

Curriculum

focused on students experience in life and tries to solve real world problems

Pedagogy

Classroom Environment

Subtopic

Assessment

Educational Giants

Perennialism

Purpose of school

believe education and knowledge transcends time

Cultivate the intellect

Promote moral development

transmit eternal truths and values

Curriculum

History, English, Philosophy

great ideas of Western Civilization

To seek enduring truths which are constant

Classroom Environment

Organized and discipline

Role of Teacher

Teach students reasoning skills and critical thinking

Educational Giants

Dante and Charles Dickens

Assessment

How well they can transfer knowledge into skills

Objective tests/Standardized tests

Essentialism

Curriculum

math

science

history

Arts

Pedagogy

Strict and disciplined

Classroom environment

Teacher is center of classroom

Teacher is very strict

Teacher controls classroom with a system of rewards and punishments

Purpose of school

Train intellect

Develop cultural literacy

Curriculum and Instruction

Back to basics

Lecture

Socratic dialogue

Master of facts

Learning by objectives

Role of teacher

teacher as demonstrator

Authoritarian

Post-modernism

Purpose of school

examine myths

examine all institutions

Curriculum

Classroom Environment

Role of Teacher

Educational Giants

Assessment

Pedagogy

Patient

Loving

Forgiving

Genuine

There's only 1 correct answer

Resulted in being afraid to ask questions

We were taught how to take tests

we were taught how to memorize

If you don't earn an "A", worse than average

Defining your intelligence through homework

No forgiveness

Teachers picked favorites

Everyone is taught the same way at the same time

They were concerned with the statistics of learning instead of measuring growth.

As an educator, provide a classroom that encourages curiosity, not one that diminishes it.

Comenius

wanted to reform education to be more advanced

came up with one of the first books for teaching

Created the first textbook with pictures

Advocate for early education

Plato

Beecher

Dewey

Education is a process of living, not a preparation for future living

Present life as life

Home

is the form of social life that is nurtured and where those connections are made

Present education needs to be part of community life

"I believe that only through the continual and sympathetic observation of childhood's
interests can the adult enter into the child's life and see what it is ready for, and upon
what material it could work most readily and fruitfully."

Horace Mann

School is essential

Forms civilization

Common School

Students were educated, then left. There was hardly any application.

School can sometimes feel like a job, not an opportunity to learn

School was like a factory; placed on an assembly line and just forced through

Allows individuals from any background to become what they want to be - American Dream

Resistance

Taxes - people don't want to pay for the education

Local Control - funding comparison between wealthy neighborhood schools vs poor community schools

Government involvement in education was a repudiation of liberalism and parental rights

Metaphysics

Make our ideas clear

Epistemology

Knowledge should be used to act on things

Axiology

Subtopic

Educational Groups

Subtopic

Purpose of School

Curriculum

Pedagogy

Nature of the learner

Role of the teacher

There's only 1 correct answer

Resulted in being afraid to ask questions

We were taught how to take tests

we were taught how to memorize

If you don't earn an "A", worse than average

Defining your intelligence through homework

No forgiveness

Teachers picked favorites

Everyone is taught the same way at the same time

They were concerned with the statistics of learning instead of measuring growth.

Philosophy and Education

Education is intertwined with a passion to understand

Search for truth

Education calls teachers "to lead from ignorance"

Philosophy compels teachers to lead students in a direction that is meaningful and of most worth

Philosophy: love of wisdom

4 Branches of Philosophy

Metaphysics: What is the nature of reality?

What's real and not real

Determines what's worth teaching and how it will be taught

As a teacher, determines WHAT I teach.

Epistemology: What is the nature of knowledge?

Theory of knowledge

Where do answers come from?

Is there a right answer?

How we know what we know?

Helps answers children's "why" questions

the better we understand it, the better we can teach our students

As a teacher, determines HOW I teach

Axiology: What is the nature of values?

Value and studying the nature of value

justified and means

What does it mean to be good or bad

Ethics: study of what is "good or bad" in human behavior, thoughts and feelings

Aesthetics: nature of beauty; what is it worth?

As a teacher, it determines values/discipline/grading assignments

Logic

branch of study that concerns questions about reference, prediction, identity, & truth

critical investigation and analysis

deductive and intuitive reasoning

Deductive: involves examining a general case, deducing a general set of rules or principles

Intuitive: taking specific examples and considering the general principles

Helps students see truth

Students will think differently and they will come to solutions differently than their peers

Idealism

considered oldest philosophy of Western culture; dates back to Greece

Values are absolute and eternal

Education is transformation. Ideas can change lives. The more we know, the better we are.

Focus on the Three "R's"

Reading

Writing

Arithmetic

Class comparisons/Qualities of Idealistic Teacher

Education is always the development within

Focused on helping the student gaining a deeper insight than he/she already has

Continual progression

It will be hard, and there will be disappointments, but every person needs to keeping moving forward

Metaphysics

desire for deeper understanding

Epistemology

Aims to develop the spiritual, emotional, and moral being of students. Help them learn for themselves

Axiology

Wisdom and values are gained through personal reflection and growth

Educational Giants

Plato

Socratic dialogue

Purpose of School

Teach them how to learn for themselves

Curriculum

Learn from the past

Subtopic

Nature of the learner

Responsibility to gain a deeper understand of concepts

Study things to make them think

Role of the Teacher

We are a guide to the students

We hopefully will instill a desire to learn for themselves and to gain wisdom

Teach things that are going to make them think

"Cogito ergo sum"

"I think, therefore, I am"

Transmitting truths and values

Realism

I can obtain knowledge through my senses.

Knowledge is obtainable through research

Syllogism

Scientific Method

Standards, Achievement

Behavioral Objectives

Class Notes

Learn with your senses

Scientific Method

Applying what they learn

Focusing on more than math and science; humanities as well

We come to world with an empty head/blank slate

How do children learn within their first few years of life and try to incorporate that into further learning

Teaching moral and intellectual values

Neo-Theomism

fusion of Greek rationality and Christian Theology

Religious and character education

Many private religious schools

Learning by study and also by faith

God is a worthy source of knowledge

Class Notes

Very faith based and spiritual

Oak Tree Analogy

Intellectual

How does spiritualaity relate to the rest of the world

Study and faith

Pragmatism

Philosophy needed to be applied to solving human problems

Success judged by consequences of actions

Reality is based on my own experience

Application

Teacher encourages, plans, questions, and offers suggestions

Teacher is not an authoritarian; more like a cheerleader

Moral democracy

Summerhill 'Academy'

Existentialism

Language is important

Focus on needs of individual (cognitively and affectively)

Education liberates individual from chaotic world.

Teacher student relationship is personal.

Summerhill 'Academy'