“Philosophy of Education"
The road of education is a lifelong journey . . .
My Philosophy of Education is simple. I believe that ALL students regardless of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religious background are deserving of a wholistic education. This holistic approach would include, an education that will allow them to fully discover themselves, their strengths and weaknesses, and benefit from necessary real life instruction.
When the teacher's role is to guide, providing access to information rather than acting as the primary source of information, the students' search for knowledge is met as they learn to find answers to their questions. For students to construct knowledge, they need the opportunity to discover for themselves and practice skills in authentic situations. Providing students access to hands-on activities and allowing adequate time and space to use materials that reinforce the lesson being studied creates an opportunity for individual discovery and construction of knowledge to occur.
Equally important to self-discovery is having the opportunity to study things that are meaningful and relevant to one's life and interests. Developing a curriculum around student interests fosters intrinsic motivation and stimulates the passion to learn.
For myself, teaching provides an opportunity for continual learning and growth.
I believe in life-long learning.Lifelong learning means education resulting from integration of formal, non-formal, and informal education so as to create ability for continuous lifelong development of quality of life. Learning is therefore part of life which takes place at all times and in all places. It is a continuous lifelong process, going on from birth to the end of our life.
I believe in Constructivism: A Holistic Approach to Teaching and Learning
In contructivism,instructors have to adapt to the role of facilitators and not teachers .A teacher gives a lecture that covers the subject matter, a facilitator helps the learner to get to his or her own understanding of the content.
I believe that Learning is an active, social process,individuals make meanings through the interactions with each other and with the environment they live in.Students gain knowledge because they engage in the process of learning , not because they have completed the necessary seat-time.
I believe in student-centered, constructivist learning, where students are given responsibility for their own learning.
I believe in teaching through games. Games get students involved, having fun, and learning more then they even realize.Games challenge our intelligence and creativity. We learn to think outside the box. One characteristic of games that supports learning is that they challenge support players to approach,explore and overcome increasingly complex problems and thereby learn better how to tackle those problems in similar contexts in future.
I believe in multiple intelligences.Traditionally, schools have emphasized the development of logical intelligence and linguistic intelligence (mainly reading and writing).Being intelligent does not always mean that someone tests well -- a problem with which teachers and school administrators have struggled since the earliest days of organized education. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences helps educators think differently about "IQ," and about what being "smart" means. The theory is changing the way some teachers teach.
I believe in Bloom's Taxonomy.Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains": Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as knowing/head, feeling/heart and doing/hands respectively). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels.
