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excerpt from my paper

25 Nov 2006 12:14 (Edited: 25 Nov 2006 12:14)

I'm finishing a paper on my educational philosophy and thought that this section would make a good stand alone blog entry. I really believe strongly that the skills and attitudes that will be needed in the future will be those I have always admired in the kind of person I refer to here, who may or may not have the traditional formal educational background, but who has cultivated their mind and become a fascinating lifelong learner, who is not content to come home and soporifically turn on the tv and be a passive consumer of mindless drivel but who is always thinking, always learning something new and has that vibrant spark of life in their soul. This is the kind of person who is a joy to be with and who will be able to fully live in this future world we are creating. An open mind, a facility with knowledge and the curiousity to explore rather than closing one's mind and holding back others out of fear and lack of vision.


"My educational philosophy has developed over many years and had numerous influences. With each opportunity to learn more, I have tried to be open to new suggestions while always evaluating them in the light of what I have already learned and found to be useful in my past experiences as a teacher, scout leader and parent. As a result, I am a teacher who believes that students and teachers should be active collaborators in the learning process, and who understands that the diverse nature of our students requires the understanding that there are many pathways to learning and that different approaches work better with different students. I believe that the future we are sending them into will require a very different set of skills than the one we were trained for. I truly believe that the path my life has taken has allowed me to come back to teaching with the kind of broad perspective that will make me well suited to preparing our students for the 21st century challenges.

The adults of the future will need to be able to utilize a wide variety of resources, both known and yet unknown to continually adapt to new ways of living, working and relaxing. I have always admired those people most who cultivated active open minds. They have always been the best educated, most interesting people to work and be with, and this has been a quality that was not directly correlated with whether they had degrees but with their attitudes. The ability to adapt, to constantly seek out and assimilate new information and skills, to make a life that goes beyond mere passive receptivity to whatever comes along, to instead be vibrantly involved in life and contributing to the world they live in, this is what I hope for my students. As a public school teacher, I have a vested interest in doing my part to ensure that the education I help my students get provides all of the best of the basic skills that are still necessary while ensuring that the system I work in remains relevant and prepares them for the new kinds of learning they will need to do throughout their lives."

 

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  • by brainstrm @ 25 Nov 2006 20:37

    Very good 8 ) >:D<

    Woohoo you will get another A !!!

    8 ) 8 ) 8 )

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