Educational Philosophies

View Examining Philosophies of Teaching on the textbook DVD. Respond to the following questions.

Compare Judy’s and Bob’s teaching with respect to the educational philosophies.

Is your philosophy of education more nearly related to Judy’s or to Bob’s? Please explain.

Philosophy Paper Rubric

Thanks to all of you for helping celebrate my birthday this morning. It was a complete surprise!

I added the philosophy paper rubric to the blog under course tools.
The philosophy paper will be due next Friday, May 29th at 9:00 a.m.
Please attach a copy of the rubric to your assignment.

Congratulations you are 1/2 way through the course.

Enjoy your long weekend!

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Prepare for Friday

Today take the time to complete your journals for myteachingphilosophy.com. You have a good idea of the written expectations for this assignment based on the blog comments from Tuesday and Wednesday. Clearly define your beliefs, connect it to prior examples, readings, or our class discussions and be cautious about spelling, grammar, typos. Teachers are held to a higher standard for oral and written communication because they are considered scholars and models for young people. Now is the time to begin practicing how to improve in communication.

We will meet tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. in Tech 214.

It was nice having food to munch on last week. If you would like to contribute to the feast please indicate what you will be bringing. Check the other posts so we aren't all bringing in the same things.

Classroom Management

Two types of classroom management that teachers often possess is high control or low control. High control is when classrooms are very teacher centered, structured and the teachers have an authoritarian attitude about how children should behave and what they should do. Low control is a more student centered approach with teachers viewing the environment as that of a community and the community members aid in creating the rules and acceptable behaviors for the classroom.

How much control do you believe teachers should have over their students?

Is it ever appropriate to yell at students? Explain why or why not.

How do children in our society learn to participate in a democracy?

My Teaching Philosophy Journal

This week your focus is on completing the learning module that can be found at
www.myteachingphilosophy.com

When you get to the site you must input:
Username: philosophy
Password: web

In order to get the assignment done in time create a plan for yourself. My suggestion is about 5 cases per day.

Your reflections will be assessed according to the rubric that can be found on the blog under course tools.

After viewing Pay it Forward respond to this blog concerning the following prompts:

I can imagine myself as a teacher challenging my students to change the world to make it better. Explain.

How appropriate is it for teachers to raise the conscousness level of students in regard to the problems that confront all human beings? Explain.

Should teachers design curriculum based on the text book, real world events, or a combination of both? Explain.

Assignment for this Week

Just a reminder that this Friday the myteachingphilosophy.com reflection journal will be due. I have added the rubric for this assignment under course tools. Make sure you check out the rubric so you know how the assignment will be assessed. This module is a big assignment so don't procrastinate. Set a goal for yourself of how many reflection entries you want to accomplish in a day. There are 9 movie reflections and 5 written reflections so you need to do about 5 per day plus take the inventory profile. Remember to include a color copy of the inventory profile graph. The reflection prompts that are on the learning module DO NOT allow you to type in your responses. You must copy, and paste into a word document your reflection entries. This assignment will be due on Friday, May 22nd at 9:00 a.m. If you are not going to be in class make sure you get it to the education office prior to Friday or send it in with a friend from class. The blog entries I will be adding this week will all involve the learning module in order to help you develop a belief about the specific topics of curriculum, instruction, and management.