-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
Operant conditioning is a process of behavioral training proposed by B.F. Skinner in which a combination of actions followed by immediate reinforcement is used to propel a behavior. Slowly the...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
I think that the most overwhelming similarity between both Dewey and Freire was the idea that the individual and community are not separate concepts in the education of the individual. Rather,...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
There are a huge number of variables involved in evaluating the positive or negative effects of technology upon any given student's learning. No one answer will fit all situations. If a student is...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
The Montessori method is based mostly on student's self-directed learning. According to Maria Montessori, she found the true nature of childhood, and she claimed that the natural tendency of...
-
Educational Philosophy
Vygotsky's main philosophy is based on social learning. In his theoretical framework, he offers that cognitive development occurs with a combination of dynamics, and that the most important one is...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
Skinner's operant conditioning theory offers that behavior can be achieved through a series of processes that involve motivation, reinforcement, and feedback until the behavior can be achieved...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
Vygotsky's theory of social interaction states that cognitive development will be optimal through student interaction, and students learning from each other. In the 21st century the technology is...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
It is fitting that you place this question in the educational philosophy group, because how you write a lesson plan as a teacher depends quite a bit on your philosophy. Here is a common lesson...
-
Educational Philosophy
Kohn's book focuses on the basic idea of how the temporary fix has supplanted a long term vision in our schooling and parenting of children. Kohn's beliefs is that our desire to provide immediate...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
I think that a couple of point need to be stressed here. The first is that part of the "mimicry" that is perceived comes down to the manner of assessment. If higher education students are going...
-
Educational Philosophy
This is a great question. When educating children, we need to think about the totality of a child. We want children to grow up to their fullest potential and thrive as citizens. For this to happen,...
-
Educational Philosophy
I have searched far and wide and can find no reference to anything but the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This is, of course, legislature that was co-written by several politicians, including the...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
What a great question. As you probably know, this question is largely a matter of opinion. Literacy is an important part of a person's life and also for the well-being of society. For this reason,...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Educational Philosophy
This is a great question. It is easy to think that the study of history is not important. Why study facts that happened long ago? With that said, there are many reasons why we should study history....
-
Educational Philosophy
The most important aspect of any technology in the classroom is teacher training. Teachers have to know how to use the technology, but also how to use it effectively. The reason so many teachers...