Thursday, October 4, 2012

Chapter 7: Thinking about Teaching and Learning

"...they [educators] don't know exactly what skills a 5-year-old of today will need 30 years down the line in order to be successful and to contribute to the will-being of society. The constant generation of ideas about teaching and learning is one way of educators attempt to imagine and prepare for the future."

While I will not be a kindergarten teacher, I will give high school students the tools they need in order to be successful when they are older. I will incorporate it into my teaching so students will get the best of math and skills for the future.

"In Plato's discussion of epistemology, he argued that in order to grasp reality or know, individuals use understanding, reason, perception, and imagination."

Educators need to have the skills of understanding, reason, perception, and imagination to work with students effectively. This will be part of my personal philosophy because teachers that don't have these skills are the ones that are ineffective and do not make the classroom environment interesting.

"Teachers must negotiate the omnipresent conflict between societal values and individual values in the classroom. A well-informed teacher understands and respects the diversity of cultural and ethnic thought in any community and uses this knowledge to help all students learn."

This will be in my personal teaching philosophy because every student must be integrated into the the activities regardless of their ethnicity or cultural background. I will assure that will happen in my classroom so every student feels comfortable.


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