Educational Philosophy :: Education Teaching Teachers Essays

Educational philosophy Lets play informhouse? So many measure when I was growing up would I pose this question to my jr. brother. I would always play the role of the teacher and he would be my somewhat enthused student. Of course, kidhood never lasts forever and the unforgiving world of adolescence greets us. I was a miserable thirteen year old, wishing for those days of pretending, tour I suffered the torments of a bully and had the feeling that I would never be accepted or fit in. I wondered, would my peers ever treat me evenly? Would I ever be able to be what society says a young woman should be? It was during this trying clock time that I cognize my childhood game, coupled with my desire to make kids feel good just ab fall out themselves, was my destined career choice. I was destined to be an educator. As time passed and I entered college I realized that with the ideas of Progressivism and Social Reconstructionism that I was meant to be a teacher who would tea ch kids facts and formulas and teach them ego worth in the process. To me, school is much more than a place to learn about register and math and reading, its a place to grow socially and emotionally. I believe it is vitally important to teach character development and self worth at an early age. This way, by the time a child hits puberty, they have a sense of self-pride, they feel they have a limited gift or talent that makes them unique and important in society. maybe if I had had an elementary school teacher who taught me these things, then middle school wouldnt have been such a difficult struggle for me. some future teachers I speak with say that they want to teach out of West Virginia. They say they want to teach in a full-grown city where they can get a high paying teachers job. solely you cant put a price tag on education children here in the mountain state need young, projectile teachers with fresh ways of thinking, as current teachers reach r etirement age. This is why I want to teacher in West Virginia.