can you give feedback to my peers/classmate (follow the red guide please) 1 paragraph

Guided Response: As you respond to a minimum of two peers, consider responding to at least one peer who addressed a different question than you did.  Offer additional unique insights/experiences of your own to the conversation.  Be sure to respond to any queries or comments posted by your instructor.

How do your beliefs, attitudes, values and experiences influence your personal philosophy of education?  Examine how these four components will influence your views on teaching and learning.  When you consider your role in the classroom, what is your personal metaphor for teaching?  Do you see yourself in the role of conductor, coach, mother hen, etc?  How will this influence the way you educate young learners?  Provide at least two examples of how your philosophy will be exhibited in the classroom. 

This is a hard discussion for me, as I imagine this entire class will be difficult.  I am not certain how to answer this question, for either prompt, because I do not plan on being a teacher.  As a librarian, I will most likely not have a classroom, and if I do it will be a study room used for an hour long class for a day or two a week.  However, I will do my best to answer the question.

I think beliefs, attitudes, values and experiences influence a person's philosophy on education by dictating what they think is most important for children to learn and how they should learn it.  For instance, when teaching my children their basics before they entered kindergarten I focused mainly on letters and reading.  This is because I believe reading, understanding language, and comprehending text are of the utmost importance.  This isn't just because I am studying to be a librarian, but also because we as human being spend a large chunk of our lives reading material.  If my children cannot comprehend the materials they are given for school then how are they to understand what they are being taught.  This does not mean I think learning numbers is less important or less useful.  It just means that in my experience, most people run into most of their trouble learning because they haven't learned how to process what they read correctly, or they haven't learned to read well at all which hinders learning even more!  Additionally, how are children to learn how to think critically if they aren't challenged by what they read or if they aren't well read.  Many of the most critical and logical of thinkers read constantly.  My husband, who loves numbers, reads the news everyday and is always on the lookout for a good non-fiction book.  However, he didn't learn how to read until he was in eighth grade.  Can you imagine how he must have felt going through school not knowing the material everyone else did, all because he didn't know how to read?

I don't have a personal metaphor for teaching.  I think librarians are the guardians of knowledge.  Libraries are where books of every genre find a home.  They bring people from all walks of life together.  It is up to a librarian to keep the peace and order in a library and to fix anything that needs to be fixed.  Of course, I also think of librarians as guides when it comes to teaching.  They take a backseat and only point children in the direction of the knowledge they seek.  If necessary, a librarian will step in with a helpful hint every now and then, but most of the time it is up to the patron to figure things out.  My view on learning is that we never stop learning, ever.  There is always something new to learn everyday, no matter how small.