Educational Philosophy

Children tend to ask a lot of questions, be it on subject or completely of the top of their heads, and that is 100% okay. I believe that a child should ask questions about a given material, if not question the topic entirely because it involves them thinking on their own and not being felt like they were coerced into giving a stale, expected answer. It would be my job as a teacher to answer said questions to the best of my given knowledge and ability, because even I could learn a thing or two from them and have questions myself.

To me, knowledge is power; That being said, every student who has an opportunity to learn should do so. What I mean by that, is that we as people learn something new every day, be it student, teacher, parent, even their peers. At the end of the day, the children should leave the classroom with either some new form of knowledge that they had never learned, or a strengthened knowledge if it be a situation in which they had very little knowledge of the subject. The child/children should be left with the thoughts of “What if…?” “I wonder how things today would be if…?” That is how I as a teacher would know that I did my job to the best of my abilities.

Every child and every person in general are unique. Whether it’s their appearance, race, name, even the very way they think and learn. It is my job as a teacher, to adapt to the way each student learns and provide the tools and information to which they can achieve said “greater knowledge”. School shouldn’t just be about taking notes and watching PowerPoints; Instead at least in my classroom, I will let them work in groups/ group projects, history jeopardy or even historical reenactments (to a certain extent) just so that the students don’t feel bored and that everything must be taught verbatim to the book.

My classroom will allow discussions to the topics and material being taught. Since children love to ask questions, why not let them discuss said questions if there are disagreements or even other ideas that other students may have. Every child has a voice, and every child will be allowed to voice their given opinion on the material being taught, be it a theory, or even added information that I may happen to forget or miss out on.

The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Their minds will continue to be filled with vast, endless amounts of knowledge. I will help and assist the students with figuring out who it is that they are, so that they themselves can stand firmly behind their own thoughts and ideals and not feel misguided or judged by his/her peers.