In my last blog I listed what I truly believe in and that is success. I stated that I believe that success and failure are both wonderful things that modivate different human beings in different ways. I stated that I believe that a person with a disability can succeed no matter how many times we see that same person fail at the things we find to be simple to do. I stated that I have seen two disabled children succeed in moments where they were presumed to almost certainly fail. Upon reading back on the statement for the first blog, I realized that these moments of success that I have seen will live on in my memory forever. I believe that they will be an absolute driving force in the future of my life that helps remind me of who I am, where I come from, and what I have over come compared to the struggles of others who have experienced far worst lives than I have. I also believe that I will be more susceptible to understanding how and why kids succeed and don't succeed in life, let alone in the classroom. This idea that I will be more able to understand how kids succeed and fail brought me back around to thinking about what I stated that I have as my philosophy of education. I started re-reading my philosophy of education again and realized that even though I wrote these two statements months apart, I factor my experiences with success and failures into each view point that I have.
My philosophy of education stated that I believe in the ability of each child to learn and that all learning in each school system should be progress based and failure lenient. What I simply man by this is that each child has the ability to learn and a particular way to learn and it is the responsibility of the teacher to figure out how that child learns and incorporate teaching strategies and modes of instruction to reach that child. Secondly I do not believe that failure exists if you learn from a mistake. I believe that if a student fails a first test and then does better on the second but does not necessarily pass the test, he or she has improved or succeeded and should be rewarded for this. By rewarding progress and success we encourage students to continue to learn. I also stated that I believe in the use of multiple and technologically based instruction with a lean towards giving students the tools they need to move forward into the next phase of their lives no matter what that may be. So how can I impliment this in my current class? Here is how.
I plan on giving my students multiple modes of instruction. I have already assessed the different ways my students learn, and plan on implementing instructional strategies that lean on the modes of learning that my students possess. I also grade on an improvement scale where determined on how well they improve from assessment to assessment determines on whether they are above the passing line or below it. I also lean towards linked instruction which means I link each piece of infromation with the lesson that came before and the lesson that will come afterwards and when we review a particular unit, we pull all of what we have learned together to get a clear and comprehensive picture of the unit and its essential questions. This is how I implement my I Believe statement and my Philosophy of Education into my classroom
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I can tell that your past experiences have really impacted your perspective of the world as well as teaching. I agree with you that progress should be honored in what ever form. Some times that is hard to remember. As teachers we need to find those moments of progress (how ever small) and let our students know that we are recognisng them. I see it as catching our students succeeding at something. I also agree with your idea that you can learn from every experience. I think you should print these ideas and hang them somewhere in your class to remind your self of your perspective.
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