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Educational Philosophy
When a teacher or potential teacher contemplates his/her future approach to pedagogical methodology, one of the first principles must be the establishment of the relation between education and...
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Educational Philosophy
What is a teleological argument: A teleological argument explains a thing or event (phenomena) by the purpose or function it serves as its reason for being. This is opposed to explaining phenomena...
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Social Sciences
Emotivism is a philosophical term postulating the meaning of ethical sentences; the primary assertion is that ethical sentences express emotional attitudes. Charles Stevenson theorized in...
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Educational Philosophy
One of the pros of homeschooling is not having to teach a government mandated curriculum, some of which can be directly opposed to your belief system. Another pro of homeschooling is precisely what...
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Educational Philosophy
Consider the process of learning how to ride a bicycle. In the beginning, a learner becomes familiar with the sensation of balancing on the seat, using the handlebars to steer the bike, learning...
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Educational Psychology
I think that there are a couple of elements from educational psychology that can be used to ensure a curriculum for special needs students that emphasizes greater positivity. Part of this can come...
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Teachers
As with so much in RTI, there is much in the question to address. One way I would describe the RTI Model as an monitoring system would be to say that it is a necessity. The modern classroom and...
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Teachers
In constructing any monitoring system to maximize student progress or remedy lack of progress, I think that it's incumbent for teachers to understand their own environment. This might include...
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Philosophy
One of the areas of success in Plato's philosophy lies in his stress on scholarship. Platonic notions of education depend on the student pursuing the end of learning and scholarship for their own...
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Teachers
Like teachers for all subjects, science teachers are challenged by the harnessing of student focus. Science is meticulous, requiring a sense of focus and discipline. Adhering to inquiry,...
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Intelligence tests
This one will not be easy. There are many elements in the original question that are begging to be addressed. I think that the end result is that the responses you get here can only hope to...
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Teachers
I moved this topic to the "Teachers" section because I think that this is an issue that impacts all teachers today. With the acceleration of technology in the lives of students and the openness of...
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Teachers
Different punishments exist in different domains for plagiarism. For example, in the workplace, plagiarism can be sanctioned by those in the position of power, or in some cases, termination of...
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Educational Philosophy
I would think that the most evident point would be that some students simply are not ready to make the choices to understand the scope and sequence of all that is needed to be successful. Students...
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Educational Philosophy
Gardner discovered through cognitive research that people learn in seven different ways. He said that each of us uses our strengths to learn because that is how our intelligence may first apply...
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Educational Philosophy
If one believes the learning style model, one recognizes that its intrinsic value is to empower the student. The learning style model does this because the student can understand "the code" of...
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Educational Philosophy
Collaboration among teachers as a team approach is an important tenet of the concept of Professional Learning Communities, or PLC's, as they are called in education circles. The idea of PLC's is...
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Cinema
I do think that the film depicts an "ideal representation" of life in the classroom. There is the idea of the teacher being a renegade of change, battling through all obstacles to make a...
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Educational Philosophy
I'm going to address these ideas as they relate to the management of schools, specifically public schools in the United States. In a nutshell, without order, learning cannot occur. The problem we...
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Educational Philosophy
Cultural bias is merely one of many different valences upon which a pedagogy based on the social conflict would focus. For the pedagogy based on social conflict, there is a drive to explore and...
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Educational Philosophy
This is a good question and things like this need to be asked in view of the current state of affairs in our education system. In light of this, let me make a few comments. First, it is a good to...
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Educational Philosophy
This is an excellent question. There are several things that you can do to help students through the difficulties of reading. In light of this, let me give you a few examples. First, you can tell...
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Educational Philosophy
This is a great question. Most importantly, each situation will be different. So, everything needs to be tailored to the context. However, there are a few point that will help. First, it will be...
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Educational Philosophy
Basing this answer on the current trend of Differentiated Instruction as a way to help students succeed, these are the things that should be taken into consideration before, during, and after an...
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Educational Philosophy
If you are giving a lecture or a lesson and you want to give an explicit expectation, all you need to do is to let the students know what you expect. There is nothing better than spelling out...
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Educational Philosophy
I feel at any age you can make education fun and fun educational. Does that mean you need to sit your two or three year old down and start prepping him/her for their SAT's, no, but why not make...
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Educational Philosophy
As a teacher, I would be appalled if my school were to grade solely on effort. I think that it is fine to base a little bit of a student's grade on performance, but not much of the grade and...
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Educational Philosophy
I think that one particular avenue in answering the question might come down to the basic idea of how children learn and how teachers teach. In many educational settings, from Kindergarten to 8th...
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Educational Philosophy
I assume that by classical education you mean a type of literary education that is based on a curriculum devoted to the authors of the Greek and Latin Classicism with maybe some major canonical...
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Educational Philosophy
My opinion is that merit pay is a great idea in theory but may be a lot harder to do in practice. There is no reason that teachers' pay should be based on credits and seniority. Ideally, we should...
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Educational Philosophy
I am sure you will get much in way of argument or discussion out of this one. I guess I don't feel that our current approach to education is one of excessive feminizing. I would be interested to...
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Educational Philosophy
I think that distance education is a very compelling topic with profound implications. The idea of continuing one's education or engaging in education in a distance format simply means that...
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Educational Philosophy
This is a good question. How does algebra help me in the real world? There are several ways in which to answer this question. Let me give you two points. First, whenever you use your mind in...
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Educational Philosophy
Students should be assessed because there is no other way to find out whether they have learned anything. Of course, assessments do not just have to be pen and paper tests. They can be done in a...
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Educational Philosophy
Assessments are important both for students and for teachers. For both groups, assessments (assuming that they are done correctly) give a great deal of information. They tell what things the...
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Educational Philosophy
There are so many aspects of professionalism with regard to teaching. There is professionalism in terms of being prepared in terms of the knowledge needed to teach in a given content area. A...
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Educational Philosophy
Gardner's work on multiple intelligences is so important because it suggests that we ought to be thinking about intelligence and teaching in a different way than we have been. Generally, our...
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Educational Philosophy
Whatever strategies a teacher uses to resolve conflict in the classroom, there needs to be consistency. Without consistency, no strategy will work. With that said, let me suggestion a few ways in...
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Educational Philosophy
A basic premise about people is that they are all different. So, when answering this question, there will be many different answers. Let me give you a number of common reasons why students want to...
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Educational Philosophy
This is a good question, but one that is fraught with personal opinions. However, there are several important points to address. First, we live in an increasingly global world. Hence, a social...
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Educational Philosophy
This is a good question. Teachers and educators have tried many things to encourage children in lower-income students. Let me mention of a few of them. First, some educators in the past have...
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Educational Philosophy
Higher ordered thinking is extremely important for a couple of reasons. I think that one reason why higher ordered thinking is important is because it helps to keep the focus of classroom teaching...
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Educational Philosophy
I am not certain that there is a "limit" to the amount of higher ordered thinking that one can feature in the design and execution of lessons. I think that much of this depends on several...
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Educational Philosophy
This will be dependent on a variety of circumstances. I think that one can envision how a classroom that features higher leveled thinking can be constructed. In my mind, I think that a classroom...
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Educational Philosophy
While it is good to have at least some higher-order thinking activities in each lesson, it is not good to try to have all activities be only about higher-order thinking. Higher order thinking needs...
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Educational Philosophy
This is an important question. Classroom management is important for all ages and this includes toddlers and elementary school aged children. There are several reasons for this. All children need...
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Educational Philosophy
What a great question. There will be some differences of opinion, because all teachers have different pedagogical methods and educational convictions. Here are my top five rules. First, if there...
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Educational Philosophy
The first and most important reason that classroom rules are imperative and must be reinforced is for the safety of the children in the classroom. Teachers must be alert at all times, not for just...
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Educational Philosophy
I think that you are looking for an educational philosophy that stresses the transformative nature of learning and reality if one is embracing Reconstructionism. Consider that the idea of...
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Educational Philosophy
I am assuming that you are talking about the importance of peer observations. Many schools have peer observations in place. What this is simple. Teachers pair up and they attend each other classes....
