Essays on Being A Teacher

An existential teaching philosophy aligns closely with my own teaching philosophy. While I do not wish to reject all manner of authority in my classroom, and do understand subject matter still needs to be taught, I do think more focus needs to be placed on the child and their specific growth. Too many children are forced into rigorous test schedules and overloaded with homework. Rather than understanding how to learning and retain, they master the art of memorizing, only to dump the information after the test. There is no time to find themselves, and existential teaching philosophies allot for ...

Profound Learning about Service Learning entails the act of students especially in higher learning institutions going to the field and engaging in the actual service delivery to clients. The importance of service learning is that it helps students to engage in real life-solving issues ("Contextualizing Service-Learning" 29-33). Also gives students the opportunity to serve the community while still in colleges. As part of the requirement in English course, during service learning, I chose to help Mr. Jimmy Nieto, a Southwest senior high school teacher. I was to attend the service for fifteen hours. Every time I went to the ...

The institutional affiliation

Assignment 2 Statement 2 Analyze the relationship between Working Memory (WM), schematic encoding and cognitive load. Discuss why it is important for teachers to understand this relationship, and describe ways in which this relationship can affect the instructional design aspects of your teaching. Being a teacher is a unique occupation indeed, because almost everyone sooner or later goes to school or any other educational establishment. Nevertheless, there are not so many people who have experienced being a teacher and who have really comprehended all the aspects of teaching. Those elements of the educator’s work are building the foundation ...