What is Your Educational Philosophy?

During vacations, teachers reflect on the year and often redesign and refine their teaching strategies and plans. In essence, they put back to the basics of what they believe is the best way to inspire learning in their students in other words, revise and refine their philosophy of education.

1. The students need to learn.

Students want and need to learn as much as they need food, clothing and shelter. The main job of an educator is to fill those primary needs for learning by creating interesting and relevant learning experiences of each day. The greatest gift that a teacher can give to students is to motivate them with the experience of success in learning.

2. Students must actively participate in learning.

Students learn better by doing many activities, active teaching encourages active learning. Teachers should treat students as active participants in the learning process, giving them skills, such as:

• How to study

• How to take notes

• How to memorize

• How to express yourself effectively

These skills will help you be part of a high performance learning team. Also, students should be encouraged to explore, have research information beyond the boundaries of the classroom and textbooks.

3. Learning is a physiological activity that involves the whole body.

The best way to involve a student is to have a solid class management plan and a well-planned lesson that is based on relevant activities, with purpose designed to improve the student's knowledge and skills and leave them wanting to learn more. Teachers should be strongly aligned focused on student and directed student learning that encompasses exploration, discovery, experimental learning, and the production of academically rigorous products.

4. Students need timely feedback to improve.

Teachers gather data on student performance to adjust the learning environment and instruction so that they can address the learning needs of students. Teachers administer the preliminary tests to find a starting point for learning and post-test to determine the "increase" in the performance level, as well as from the teachers to the students effectively.

5. Students need structure and repetition to learn.

A teacher must be able to organize a sequence of standards-based lessons, successfully implement the plan, and then evaluate student learning. A teacher must be able to create an exciting learning environment that makes it difficult for students not to learn. A teacher should know how to include all students in learning at their own level, and a teacher should be able to inspire students to strive to the next level.

6. Students need information, knowledge and skills.

Having access to knowledge resources is as important to a child's education as the actual content of the curriculum. Relevant and current information should be in the hands of teachers and students to give answers when the questions are fresh. Information "a la carte" is more valuable than information "just in case".

7. The students need tools and resources.

Students should know how their regional configuration memory systems work. Students must have skills and strategies to be able to work effectively at different levels of the cognitive domain defined by Benjamin Bloom . Students should be aware of their own learning preferences, and teachers should help with the creation of a plan to develop other learning skills. Educational tools are a means to an end. For example, technology is used appropriately to greatly increase 'the ability to learn and from teachers to students the ability to teach, inspire and motivate.