Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Philosophy of Education presentation notes

  • Your philosophy is what you believe about education
  • Teacher centered
    • Install respect
  •  Student centered
    • Prepare students for their future.
    • Help the student figure out who they are
  • Essentialism
    • Basic Teaching
    • Test scores
  • Perennialism
    • Great books
    • Group Discussions
  • Progressive
    • Real world connecting to school
    • Teacher and student work together
    • group work
    • Technology utilized
  • Social Reconstructionism
    • Social challenges in class
    • School best place to expose incorrect biases
    • Goal is to change students ideas
  • Existentialism
    • Find meaning in students own lives
    • not used in public schools very much.
  • Can you mix philosophies
    • Yes, you can.  Important to create an emotional connection between student and subject, and student and teacher
  • Constructivism
    • Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
    • knowledge is constructed
    • help create order in the world
    • Relate
      • prior knowledge
      • scaffolding
      • kids with autism thrive under this
  • Behaviorism
    • B.F. Skinner
    • People are shaped by their environment
    • Relate
      • System of reinforcement
      • extrinsic rewards to intrinsic rewards

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