My Personal Education: My Philosophy Of Education

My educational philosophy is developed from my own studies, my experiences in the classroom, as well as teachers who taught me that stand out in my memory. All the teachers who have influenced my life in one way or another possess similar traits. Regardless of the subject, they delivered it in a form that quickly caught my attention. They made even the most complex topics seem extremely easy as they lead me through them. Knowledge was almost always concrete, as they made it relevant to our lives through our experiences. They have instilled in me a love for learning. These teachers are the teachers I admire. They have, in one way or another, contributed to my philosophy of education: I am a facilitator, not a specialist whose job is merely to transfer knowledge to learners.

Children are unique personalities. In order for them to develop at all levels—intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially—they must be provided with an
In doing this, students go through all the higher level thinking orders: they must categorize, construe, evaluate, and/or combine the knowledge they already have in order to understand a new concept. Accordingly, the focus of instruction is on developing concepts and understanding through building on prior knowledge, instead of on the development of performance and skills (Fosnot, 1996).

One strategy that I strongly believe in is cooperative learning. I am both a student and a teacher, and in both roles I find that I learn a concept better when I teach it. In order to be able to teach or explain a concept to someone else, you must first understand it. The information should be interpreted into your own form of reasoning. This notion is part of the foundations of cooperative learning. In cooperative learning, students should work in a classroom in which a dialogic atmosphere (between the students) the main aim, also known to some as group