copyright © 2007 allyn and bacon becoming a teacher, 7e chapter 3 developing a teaching philosophy

Copyright © 2007 Allyn and Bacon

BECOMING A TEACHER, 7e

Chapter 3Developing a Teaching Philosophy


What is an Educational Philosophy?


What Determines Your Educational Philosophy?

Teachers must ask several vital questions about their work

Teachers’ behavior is strongly connected to personal beliefs about: 1. 2. 3. 4.

3.1 What Determines Your Educational Philosophy?



Educational Philosophies Video Identify similarities/differences in educational

philosophies of… Joyce Madsen’s Leonia Townsend’s Lynda Hootman’s Trent Eaton’s

Explain how the educational philosophies impact what happens in the classroom.

Explain the importance of having a philosophy of education and describe their own.


What Are the Branches of Philosophy?

Metaphysics Concerned with explaining the nature of

_______

Important because the school curriculum is based on what we know about reality.

Go to this website for examples: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/metaphysics/examples.html



Epistemology This focuses on ___________ There are 5 ways of knowing about the

world: 1. Knowing based on ____________ 2. Knowing based on _____________ 3. Knowing based on _______________ 4. Knowing based on ___________and

______________ 5. Knowing based on _________________



Axiology Study of __________ Teachers have an interest not only in the

__________ of knowledge but the __________ that becomes possible because of that knowledge What values should teachers encourage students to

adopt? What values does a truly educated person hold?

For examples: http://www.resultsuk.co.uk/axiologywhatisit.htm



Ethics Focuses on what is good and evil,

_________, just and unjust.

Knowledge of ethics can help the teacher solve ethical dilemmas in the classroom. (See P. 85)



Aesthetics This is the branch concerned with values

related to _________

Is teaching an art or a science?



Logic Concerned with the process of ________;

identifies rules that enable the thinker to reach valid conclusions

______ thinking – requires the thinker to move from a general principle to a specific conclusion.

______ thinking – requires the thinker to move from the specific to the general. Known as discovery teaching.


What are Five Modern Philosophical Orientations to Teaching?

Perennialism Stresses students’ intellectual growth in the ______

and __________.

Essentialism Students must be taught a common core of

knowledge taught in a systematic, ___________ way

Progressivism Education should be ______-centered rather than

focused on the teacher or the content area


What are Five Modern Philosophical Orientations to Teaching?

Existentialism Focuses on the experiences of the _______

Social Reconstructionism Believes that schools should take the lead in

________ or __________ society


What Psychological Orientations Have Influenced Teaching Philosophies?

Humanistic Psychology Emphasizes __________ _________, choice, awareness, and personal

responsibility Behaviorism

Based on the principle that desirable human behavior can be the product of _______ rather than accident

Constructivism Focuses on processes of learning rather than on learning behavior. Students

________ knowledge rather than receiving knowledge

“Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.” _________

Check out these links: http://www.piaget.org/aboutPiaget.html http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/piaget.html

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How Can You Develop Your Educational Philosophy?

Most teachers develop an eclectic philosophy of education A unique ______ of two or more philosophies

Teachers need to identify their beliefs and values about the following: 1. 2. 3.

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