Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Induction Meeting
It was very interesting talking about our educational philosophy this morning. I ended up being in Group 5 that focused more on the feelings of students and teaching to their individual learning styles. When I was in college and graduate school, I had to write my educational philosophy and it was similar to where I fell this morning on the chart. I think that being in special education, I am constantly aware of what learning styles my students have and how they feel towards what I am teaching and what they are learning in the classroom. A lot of what I do depends on how each student is feeling on a particular day. One of the women in my group felt that she fell in two different categories depending on what class she was teaching. I found that fascinating and reassuring that we do teach to individual classes and students and that sometimes our approach is different for each student.
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It is so true that we adapt and try to teach to each students' different needs the best we can. As teachers, we have to wear so many hats and pull of so many tricks in a day. When things don't go as planned, we have to adapt on the fly. Some days things work out as planned, other days we end up changing our lesson due to other unpredictable dynamics. Thank goodness we're flexible!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the need for flexibility when identifying with these types of philosophical questions. So much of your "personal teaching philosophy" is based on your personal experiences and those instructional practices most emphasized by instructors within your educational programs :). It is hard for me to make sense generalizing a personal philosophy to the educational needs of so many individual students....maybe that is a philosophy in its self!
ReplyDeleteI have a difficult time applying philosophies, with an inherent mode of subjectivity, into instramental practice when research has been done on effective teaching methods that can be applied to meet individual student needs .....Flexibility is the key!
-small soapbox! :).