Educational Philosophy :: Education Teaching Teachers Essays

Educational Philosophy Webster’s dictionary defines the word educate as to develop and cultivate mentally or morally; train; instruct; teach. I would like to be someone who educates because educators, or teachers, help people and have an influence over their students. A teacher is someone who earns respect and is looked up to by others. I want to be a teacher because I want to be able to help people and make an impact on someone’s life. When I become a teacher, I want to have an orderly and structured classroom. I want the children in my class to be comfortable and in the best environment for learning. When the children come into the gymnasium, I want them to go into the locker room and get dressed to participate and come out and line up on a certain spot, which is assigned to them. Hopefully, by lining them up it will discourage discrimination and let the children make new friends. The walls in the gymnasium and the locker room will display all the rules and procedures of the class, the gymnasium, the locker room, and the school. It will also have the policies and various procedures of the school for the students to refer to. The activities will be appropriate. I will inform the students as to where and when equipment is and used. I will inform them as to when it is appropriate to get the equipment out and to put it back in its place. I see myself as a progressive teacher according to my styles of teaching. I will establish a non-authoritarian classroom. This means that I will be asking my students for help in making the rules and consequences for the gymnasium. We will decide the severity of the rule that was broken and match it with an equally severe punishment. We will decide as a group what kind of organization we will have in the gymnasium. There will be incentives for good behavior in physical education class. Rewards will vary for many reasons, such as weather, time of year, time, etc. I will inform my students as to what type of teaching style I liked when I was in school and ask them for their opinions on what type they would like, however that does not necessarily mean I will use what they suggest. I might integrate some of their suggestions into my own teaching style.