PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 2
Abstract
The educational philosophy I have selected is that all people have the right to learn and to obtain
an education that will make them become active and productive members of society. Not only
must one study the fundamentals, such as reading, writing, arithmetic, science, history, foreign
language, and language arts, but one must also learn values and how to behave properly to
become contributing members of society. In the school setting, both of these disciplines will be
learned and studied. Train students in the most optimal manner, instructional preparation must be
prepared strategically. The lessons should be simple, coherent, and taught in a manner that
allows learners to understand. Teachers must develop enjoyable, entertaining, informative
lessons that are to be learned in a warm, trustworthy, and loving atmosphere that fosters
education and development to educate students in a way they can appreciate.
Keywords: Education, Students, Lesson, Teacher, Study, Fundamentals
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The goal of developing an educational philosophy is to help instruct teaching
practitioners so that they can create the right lessons and teaching methods to learn and grow
their students. It is easier for educators to evaluate the result they expect from their students
because they have a concrete teaching theory. The aim is to educate students to become active
members of society in the best possible manner that facilitates learning and, most importantly, to
appreciate the subjects they are teaching, and to graduate. The influence of education on students
is immense, without sufficient instruction, from acquiring fundamental skills to progressing to
more nuanced skills, while learning values, allowing students to work efficiently as adults and
contribute to society.
Philosophy of Schools and Learning
Education is a human right, not a luxury that should be open to all children. That is how
youngsters, from the dawn of time and all across history, learn about the universe and what it has
to give. There can be several motives for choosing to educate them, such as needing to impart
information, wanting to do a meaningful service to society, wanting to teach others, or loving
them (Ornstein, Levine, Gutek, & Vocke, 2017).
Without learning, people will not know what happened in history, who invented those
goods or ideas, technology, math, English, and so on. Learning can have a significant effect on
children and culture. I always fear, without knowledge, that we would not only be destined to
replay those events in history, but there would be confusion and uneducated people who would
not be able to contribute to society.
Idealism, existentialism, and essentialism are the ideologies that I resonate with best.
Idealism because it is an ideology that stresses the intellectual, nonmaterial, and spirituality of
reality. This theory goes on to claim that the soul of a person is the permanent part of human
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being, which gives us the ability to feel and think (Ornstein et al., 2017). And this, depending on
their personal and moral views, may be different for everyone. I agree that our being is strong
and that it is what pushes us to understand, being atheistic yet spiritual with nature and the world.
Existentialism is the ideology that inspires people by making essential life decisions to
describe who they are. My psychology theory is based on existentialism in EDCE 505, and I
believe that individuals have the free will to make decisions and live their lives the way they
choose. This means deciding to completely accept the strength you are given and to fully educate
yourself and take advantage of this world's wealth of wisdom and the capacity to contain all that
knowledge inside yourself. Giving an existentialist perspective of education allows individuals to
focus on their commitments, identity, and choices; to consider who you are, what you do, why
you do it, and what kind of difference does your existence makes to yourself and the world?
(2017, Ornstein et al.).
The third philosophy I agree with is essentialism, in that the primary role of a school is to
communicate the accomplishments of humanity in a sequenced and structured curriculum to
students as subjects and skills. At the elementary level, the curriculum should consist of writing,
reading, and arithmetic; and at the secondary level, it should consist of algebra, English, science,
language, and history. Essentialism emphasizes quality and competitiveness that I believe is
important for the growth of education (Ornstein et al., 2017). Students are guaranteed to
understand the fundamentals of education by using essentialism as an intellectual philosophy in
classrooms.
Instructional Practice
Learners come to know the facts through knowledge, and once one knows it, how else
can one learn what is truthful or untrue? Epistemology is a theory and cognitive psychology that
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explores how information is revealed to humans, and these questions are what makes something
a reality and what situations may be believed to be valid. Epistemologies change predictively,
according to Deanna Kuhn; young children are "realists/absolutists" where they assume the
truths emerge directly from watching the universe.
Adolescents become "relativists" who see beliefs as reducible and equivalent to perceptions
or ideologies. Kuhn calls the "evaluativist position" the last, most refined, and not readily
accessible epistemological level; where these experts can discern between opinion and truth, they
can combine multiple triggers of complex events and make simple claims based on reasoning
and experience (Gold, 2017).
With patience and compassion, it is necessary to introduce a sound system in the
classroom that facilitates learning. Teaching lessons that benefit the diverse cognitive types of
children, such as visual, verbal, aural, physical, rational, social, and solitary, are the pedagogical
methods I can use. Not all students learn the same way, and teaching lessons is relevant in
several ways that can help students understand completely what they are supposed to learn.
Students would be able to absorb the full amount of knowledge that is provided by using games
and teaching in such a manner that stimulates all of their senses and cognitive styles.
Teacher-Learner Relationships
The teacher's task is to pass on to the student their understanding they have learned
through life and their schooling. In their classroom, the teacher must be able to create a warm
and trustworthy environment that fosters learning. Teachers who do not have this kind of
classroom will also have a hostile classroom that is not learning-friendly. The teacher's other role
is to be a tutor to students, where students will turn to them for classwork guidance, assignments,
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and even some problems with life. Teachers should be role models, both now and in the future,
and model the actions they wish to see in their students.
The learner's job is to be an involved, engaging and inspired pupil. Students must be able
to start their day and arrive at school on schedule. While arriving in good spirits and with a
healthy outlook is advantageous, this is not always the case. When their teachers give lectures,
students must be good listeners, must engage, and must follow instructions. The student's job is
to be attentive to what the teacher is teaching, and complete activities to show an awareness of
the knowledge they are being taught. Another role of the learner is to be able to assist their
teacher with classwork, assignments, tasks, and any personal life problems.
The responsibilities of the teacher and the students contribute to each other because they
depend on each other. An instructor cannot teach without pupils; and without teachers, students
cannot learn. To make a warm, inviting, atmosphere filled with faith and patience, an instructor
must do all they can so that students have the best environment to learn. And students need to
come to school with a learning mindset so that the teacher can do her utmost to help the students
improve with their lessons and activities. A positive interaction between the teacher and the pupil
affects the success of the student, the participation of the school, and the adaptation of the child
(Roorda, Koomen, Split, & Oort, 2011).
Diversity
Teachers must take into account the diversity of their pupils. Students from diverse
backgrounds today have more and more public schools, which means they come from different
communities, color, race, gender, sexual identity, religious views, political beliefs, socio-
economic class, physical, emotional, and developmental disabilities. To provide their diverse
learners with the best education, teachers must have multicultural experience.
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Getting many students and becoming an instructor means that they have to be receptive to certain
subjects, properly approach the students, not use any sort of derogatory slang, and not ask
students of certain backgrounds to read, behave, and talk as they or their other students do. For
eg, there are many societies were keeping silent, not looking people in the eyes while speaking,
or not expressing much, if any, feelings is common and customary.
It can be challenging, but not impossible, to establish a curriculum that meets the needs
of diverse students. The instructor must use phrases that are culturally sensitive, use exercises
that are culturally sensitive, and account in their classroom for the various learning rates. The
instructor must also take into account their ratings. There are a variety of different students who
do not understand how to read English well and will need to simplify their assessments in a
manner that will help them show the skills they have gained while teaching. According to Jeltova
et al. (2011), the findings of their research on the instruction and evaluation of different students
showed that the use of the dynamic system of instruction and evaluation, which stresses the
learning experience of ethnic students and accounts for the type and sum of the teacher's
investment, has advantages.
Conclusion
The theory of education of an educator will help decide the impact it will have on
learners and potential adults. Students would have the best chance to thoroughly learn and
understand the subject by providing a clear-cut philosophy focused on lectures, exercises and
instructional methods. The aim of the educational philosophy of a teacher is to mold students
into society's productive, competitive, and moral participants and give them the instruments to
pursue higher education so that they can do great things with their lives.
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References
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Retrieved February 27, 2020, from https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/the-key-to-
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Jeltova, I., Birney, D., Fredline, N., Jarvin, L., Sternberg, R. J., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2011).
Making instruction and assessment responsive to diverse students’ progress: group-
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Ornstein, A. C., Levine, D. U., Gutek, G. L., & Vocke, D. E. (2017). Foundations of
education (13th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Inc.
Roorda, D. L., Koomen, H. M. Y., Split, J. L., & Oort, F. J. (2011). The influence of affective
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