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Teaching Philosophy

In my teaching career I want to make an influence. There are going to be certain ideas that I try to uphold and other discriminations that I will try not to allow. I know that everyone has their own beliefs and that teachers should do what they cannot to infringe on others, but to try and show them a different way to think so that they have all the information needed to make educated decisions. This is why I want to teach Primary Education. I want to teach Primary education because this is when children are open-minded. They have not yet had to deal with or maybe understand the injustices that they will encounter. I believe that if they are taught from an early age that will have the ability to succeed. I am going to go into teaching with my own ideas on my philosophy of teaching, the purpose of public schools, and education reform. It is my goal to influence children in as many positive ways as I can.
Philosophy of Teaching
Hlebowtish said"A philosophy of teaching has to be responsive to three factors in decision making discussed in the previous chapter (learner, society, subject matter)"(p. 92). Teachers need to be flexible when they go into a classroom. It is necessary that teachers understand how the school performs, and what ideas they do and do not want to be discussed. By understanding the schools ideas, I would then be able to see if my ideas fit into the schools and if the do not completely match see how much leniency there would be for me ideas. Flexibility is going to be an asset that any teacher should have.
Essentialism and Perennialism both have their focus on a subject matter. Both essentialism and perrenialism try to teach all students the same way. This style of teaching is more like memorization; I had a teacher call us M and M students. This meant that we memorized for the moment. We could not apply what we had learned to other problems outside of the examples. He said we did not learn, but that we memorized. I want to...

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