“All Men by nature desire to know” (Zunjich, n.d.). This statement was spoken by Aristotle more than 2,500 years ago and is an expression that is everlasting. He was an individual that was devoted to obtaining information. His statement is the foundation of my philosophy on what teaching is. Educators must learn and distribute what we have learned. This is what divides educators from the “regular” people of the world. My affection in school was for science and I could never get enough of it. I am one who asks question of each item I read in science and wish develop a further understanding to the subject. Science is all around us and I want to share the knowledge and passion I have for the subject to my students in the future.
Epistemology is the single philosophy that sets itself out when it comes to educating students. Epistemology discovers realism within a student’s makeup of the things he/she may identify with. Learning, in my opinion, should include a student’s real life circumstances. The learning process can be more logical to a student if they relate it with their individual state of affairs rather than attempting to study what they cannot understand. Students must be able to reflect by themselves and explain troubles that they can operate to the future situations that will occur in their lives. As a teacher, the philosophies or the numerous abilities must be initiated so that the individual can become interested and that their interest is on the teacher and ready for learning to begin when something is being shown for the first time.
Metaphysics is the part of philosophy that I do not agree with in the classroom. It is the part of philosophy that doubts the reality of life. In many classrooms, I see that teachers do raise metaphysical matters frequently as they make choices about the things that they are teaching on a particular day and how the classroom should be situated to accommodate the maximum learning potential of each individual student. In this case, the curriculum is always being question about how the teaching is to be either structured or if the students should be able to help along the way when teaching is being done. As an educator, I want to feel as though I do not have to questions the things I do inside the classroom to fulfill the needs of my students. Confidence goes a long way inside of the classroom; therefore, knowledge is the power to having a successful learning environment.
Axiology is important in the classroom to both the educator and the students. Axiology is the part of philosophy that deals with principles. This part of philosophy tackles out thoughts about how the student-teacher communication should be and shows the way an educator should conduct themselves regarding a student. Character education in the classroom should be taught in order for the students to understand the values of it. In my classroom, I want the student to understand the need to treat someone the way they want to be treated as well as treat me and the other educators the way adults should be treated. Values and ethics should be taught to the students in order for them to grow up and have the morals that are constructed into each of their lives.
Logic must be used within each classroom where students are being taught. Logic is the part of philosophy that shows reasoning. The two different types of reasoning are inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. Using inductive reasoning, the thinking of an individual must continue from the precise illustrations to the most common ideas. Using deductive reasoning, the thinking continues from the common illustrations to the most precise illustrations. As an educator, I have to determine the different ways my students use reasoning during their learning process in the classroom. As I learn these different ways of reasoning, I have to use the different techniques in my lessons to provide the best education my students can have.
My mission statement as an educator is to offer the students a variety of learning techniques that will engage each one with a process that will help them grow. Within the learning of the curriculum, each student will advance with self-discipline, inspiration and brilliance in learning. I will encourage the students to become self-sufficient in order to develop into successful adults in a community the live and work in.
A person’s beliefs and inclinations about education and teaching have a deep influence on the way something is taught and how it is taught. This is true for a person’s life as well. People hold their viewpoints from their customs, skills, teaching, faith and socialization and then modify and purify them through knowledge. Over the course of time, these customs become resilient as we become comfortable with them since they provided us with comfort along the way. These customs become the philosophy of our lives.
The same statement is true when it comes to teaching. Educators have current customs that we begin to think about and in which we modify to the way we teach. As an educator become more experienced, our customs will be modified and polished to meet our needs and the needs of the students. These ideas will shape the foundation of my eternal philosophies of the educational system that I will continue to teach in.
Reference
Zunjich, B. (n.d.). Metaphysics. Retrieved August 26, 2010, from http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/metaph.htm