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About me: Philosophy of Education
My philosophy of education
In a rapidly changing world, education seems to be evolving fast. With the advancement of technology and the changing of the human lifestyle to become more cyber and urban, the challenges that face education are more pressing than ever. Luckily, educators have the means to face those challenges and to build on the old and recent research and views of education.
Education at schools must also face those challenges. In order to prepare a child for life in the twenty-first century, the schools have to address-now more than ever-the lifestyle of the people in these days as well as the academics and the humane values. The students nowadays are more knowledgeable about technology, and for most of them, they use it almost every day thus posing advantages and threats at the same time. Therefore, modern educators should be users of technology who know how to educate the children about the good use of this indispensable and useful tool. Since technology is merely a tool to serve a greater purpose, which islearning – or education on a narrower sense than used before in this paragraph – then, at the core, educators have to be engaged in knowing how to reach that goal. Achieving lifelong learning is not an easy task. Educators have to think how to integrate the academics with the humane values in their teaching practice. In their pivotal role, educators, however, must not see themselves as the sole source of learning, but as guides that will help the students learn independently as AbbeDimnetonce said, “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
Teaching practice has to serve then the variety of purposes mentioned above. In addition to catering to the emotional needs, teaching has also to address the mind and, in fact, the whole being. In doing so, teaching needs to be personal and general simultaneously. Here comes the role of differentiated instruction as a powerful approach to reaching all learners and addressing their needs and interests. Since teachers are guides in the learner’s journey, then they are asked to show the way. This means that they have to lead the learners into taking matters into their own hands and to learn from their experiences, skills, and mistakes. They can do this through giving the students the opportunities to explore and show curiosity. Teaching practice then needs to be guiding into the open world of possibilities of the twenty-first century. The teachers have to bear in mind that the students are not always in a mode that enables them to be ‘taught.’ As Winston Churchill once said, “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” However, if the students are given the choice to select what they are interested in learning, then the teacher will guarantee motivation, real, relevant learning, and a better prospect of having inquiring minds in the classroom.
In conclusion, education and teaching practice are like theory and its practice. In this world, they both need to keep up with the changes on the planet without neglecting the human part of the learner.
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