| My Educational Philosophy
is: Education is based on learner-centered principles that relate
to cognitive and social factors, and individual difference.
These are the Metacognitive and Cognitive Factors in which learning
can take place.
Principle 1: Learning is a
natural process that is active, volitional and internally mediated;
it is goal-directed process of constructing meaning from information
and experience, filtered through each individual’s unique perceptions,
thoughts and feelings. Teaching students to set objectives everyday
in each subject area and complete these objectives within the
school day.
Principle 2: The learner seeks to create internally
consistent, meaningful and sensible representation of knowledge
regardless of quantity and quality of data available. With daily
objectives, character education is a part of the learning process.
Principle 3: The learner organizes information
in ways that associate and link new information with existing
knowledge in memory in uniquely meaningful ways. Teaching life-skills
and allow students to share verbal form, written form and in
expression.
Principle 4: The teacher instructs in higher
order strategies for “thinking about thinking”. Instructing
students to use critical thinking.
Principle 5: Instruction is information processed,
learned, and remembered. Teaching self-awareness and beliefs
about self and one’s learning. Teaching clarity and saliency
of personal goals. Teaching affective, emotion and general states
of mind; and motivation to learn. Teaching creativity and higher
order thinking process of tasks of difficulty, relevancy, authenticity,
challenge, and novelty for each student.
Developmental Factors
Principle 6: Students proceed
through orderly, identifiable progressions of physical, intellectual,
emotional, and social development.
Social Factors
Principle 7: Learning is facilitated
by social interactions and communication with others in a variety
of flexible, diverse and adaptive instructional settings.
Principle 8: Learning and self-esteem are heightened
when individuals are in respectful and caring relationship with
other who see their potential, genuinely appreciate their unique
talents, and unconditionally accept them as individuals.
Principle 9: Instruction applies to all groups
of learners.
Principle 10: Beliefs and thoughts, resulting
from background knowledge based on unique interpretations of
external experiences and messages become each individual’s basis
for constructing reality or interpreting life experiences.
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