Essays on Teaching Philosophy

Post your Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory (PAEI) scores and associated philosophy. 

I personally scored an 81 in liberal arts adult education, a 99 in behavioral adult education, a 105 in progressive adult education, an 87 in both humanistic adult education, and radical adult education. As a result, my personal educational philosophy is most closely aligned with behavioral and progressive adult education. As a behavioral educator, I should prefer to observe students through clear behaviors. The primary understanding of this philosophy is that "human actions are the result of prior conditioning and the way in which a person's external environment is arranged. Emotions, feelings, intellect and so on are the means ...

An existential teaching philosophy aligns closely with my own teaching philosophy. While I do not wish to reject all manner of authority in my classroom, and do understand subject matter still needs to be taught, I do think more focus needs to be placed on the child and their specific growth. Too many children are forced into rigorous test schedules and overloaded with homework. Rather than understanding how to learning and retain, they master the art of memorizing, only to dump the information after the test. There is no time to find themselves, and existential teaching philosophies allot for ...

Part 1

General Information There are approximately 900 students in the Mudgeeraba State School (The State of Queensland: Department of Education and Training, 2016). They are all from the Prep level to year 6. There are many cultural and sporting events that all school’s attendees as well as staff are extremely proud of (The State of Queensland: Department of Education and Training, 2016). The partnership among community, school and home is cherished and considered extremely important for the children’s development. In order to apply to the school, the following process is conducted:

Filling in of the enrolment form downloaded from the website

Local students are given priority, so residence ...

1. The word “philosophy” means in Greek “the love/pursuit of wisdom” – considering the first Greek philosophers (the Pre-Socratics), what propelled them to pursue a new kind of “wisdom”? What were they unsatisfied with?

The pre-Socratic philosophers were referred to as physiologoi, meaning physical or natural philosophers. They sought to provide natural and rational justifications for various occurrences. The “essence of things” propelled them to pursue new king of wisdom by posing questions such as; where does everything come from? Can nature be explained mathematically? From what does everything emanate? As such, their concerns were ontology, mathematics, and cosmology. They were unsatisfied with the mythological explanations to the occurrences that were being experienced during their time and sought to provide reasoned explanations to natural occurrences.

2. How are the concepts of Lack (Poverty) and Resourcefulness (Resource) pertinent to Philosophy (and Love, according to Plato)? What does the philosopher lack, what resources does he/she have that enables him/her to attain what is lacking?

The concept of love depicts the fullness ...

Part I. Philosophy of Education

Personal Identity

The element of philosophy of education that reflects my identity as an early childhood educator aligns with Bruner’s (1966) concept of Constructivism theory. In this concept, the learner transforms, selects information, and make decisions by focusing on constructing the knowledge itself. These knowledge are constructed through beliefs, personal experiences and previous knowledge (Bruner, 1966). As an educator, I encourage the student to present any form of information that they have previously learned and create an opportunity for them to develop prior knowledge into new discoveries.

Central Issues and Professional Values

The central values and issues involve in my philosophy is for me as ...

The fabric of any prosperous political community in the world is bestrewn by threads of peace and social order. The desire for social order and peace catapulted human beings to surrender to some of their unalienable rights, bestowed upon by nature, in exchange for security from the government. John Locke asserts that life in the state of nature was short, nasty and brutish.The war of every man against every man acted as a catalyst for man to leave the state of nature and become party to a society governed by the rule of law. Although the rule of law is ...

Throughout the sixteenth century, numerous scientific revolution had taken place, and they changed the manner in which the political, religious and developmental issues took place up to the eighteenth century. Margret Jacobs gives an insight to this explaining some of the origin of the entire ideology of enlightenment in the western societies. She enables the readers to understand the trajectory of the concept through the argument that there is an importance of having the revival of the academic work of the past through the upheaval and renaissance related to the reformation of the Protestants and the works of science. ...

I adore showing when the adapting in my classroom is substantial: When I can sense it in the animating pace of a roundtable dialog or a scholar's unmistakable have a great time utilizing recently took in language; when I can hear the fervour in scholars' testimonials about mastering abilities that "had any kind of effect" or hypotheses that converted practices and viewpoints (Hennessey 2003). I consider these showing triumphs and make it a propensity to think about their beginnings with the goal that I can reproduce the conditions for their event over and over. My reasoning of showing is educated by the material ...

Essay Response to Teaching Presence

Essay Response to Teaching Presence “What you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you say you are.” This line of Emerson quoted by Kessler in her essay The Teaching Presence represents most of the points that would be discussed in the succeeding sections. This paper shall (a) enumerate three qualities of an effective teacher, (b) identify existing policies that are important in a teacher’s personal conduct, and (c) describe a number of Kessler’s philosophical ideas.

A teacher who is willing to care, possesses inner strength, and has a positive image of discipline is an effective teacher. These ...

Reviewing my emerging teaching philosophy

My belief is that teaching forms an essential basis for education, which certainly plays significant roles in moulding students in readiness for the current knowledge based economy, whereby an individual’s competitiveness in the global economic context is directly aligned to their the educational skills. Educational institutions should not only increase educational achievements of students, but should impart more skills as well as providing improved education and qualifications, which will enable students meet the increasing difficulties resulting from the need for more knowledgeable workforce. As such, I believe that such a sophisticated workforce will be able to sail through the ...