Philosophy of Education

The purpose of education is to educate the future, which is the children of today.
According to Save the Children, Education is the road that children follow to reach their full
potential. We want for children to become ready for adulthood and everything in between.
We want our students to know responsibilities, to be intelligent decision makers, to have goals,
to be always ready to learn and most importantly to make a difference.
Children do learn best when they are in a good environment. A place where they feel
safe and secure. A great environment is where a teacher is open to everyones ideas. According
to Schaps, Students positive connections with teachers and their perceptions that teachers
care about them are what stimulate their effort and engagement. I believe this is true. This
reminds me of my third grade teacher, who looking back, really loved her job. She cared for us,
she let us make the rules for the classroom, she encouraged us, she didnt make us feel lower
than anyone else even if we were not great readers in english. This is when most of us had just
started learning english, and because of her I got the language pretty fast. She made us feel
safe and cared for.
Inside a classroom, the students should all be given equal access to learning. As a
teacher, I should know the diverse group or not so diverse group students I have and what goes
around the schools community. Even if its a poor town, the students should not be getting a
less of an education. The students should always be getting the education they all deserve to
have. If we believe that education is the way out of poverty, then we need to stop making the
schools that serve the poorer children the most impoverished schools (Walker). Even if they are

lacking in school supplies, there are always ways around that. We have learned in our classes
ways to make simple projects that do not cost a lot of money and how curriculum ties into
those projects. The poor schools should be getting the help first from the government, the
rich schools are well off and do not need any more money to make the schools better,
because they already have the best of everything.
I feel that every subject should be stressed during the day. Teachers focus so much on
just language arts and math, that it makes the students either hate it or just know those two
subjects and not excel in anything else. Students learn these subjects in many different ways,
Using a "multi-sensory" "multi-modal" learning style approach, you will change the pattern of failure
to success and meet the needs of tour child who is academically "at-risk"(Smialek). This includes

visual, auditory, and hands-on. I would try and find ways to incorporate all these in a teaching
days worth. I learn being hands-on, but not everyone will learn that way, so I cannot just stick
to that way of teaching. For language arts, I could read a book and have children write about it.
Another way is to have the students read a book and have them put on a play. With that play,
they can learn about the history of the play. Math and science combine together. A science
project can have numbers and with equations or measuring things, and there it is math!
Subjects can even be intertwined, so students can see how they relate.
A characteristic that an effective teacher should have is flexibility. A teacher should
know that not every day they will get to a certain lesson, or be able to help out students after
school. Another characteristic and the most important is patience. A teacher with no patience
will have a difficult time. Another characteristic is to always be willing to learn. A teacher will
never be done learning. An article from Teaching Tolerance says, Good teachers form the

foundation of good schools, and improving teachers skills and knowledge is one of the most
important investments of time and money that local, state, and national leaders make in
education. There is always something new for a teacher to learn, whether if its in the
classroom with their new students every year or outside the classroom, they are always
learning. I will continue to learn by attending meetings, I will make sure I am up date with new
standards and attend those meetings where they introduce them and help us with them. A
teacher is a lifelong learner. We will never stop learning, from bettering our classrooms, to
learning new standards.

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Smialek, M. (n.d.). How Do Children Learn? Retrieved December 9, 2014, from
http://www.maryannsmialek.com/resources/articles/how_learn.html
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Walker, T. (2013, May 13). Is America Ready to Talk About Equity in Education? - NEA Today. Retrieved
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