Reflection 8

My educational philospohy is progressive which means that I believe people learn better from real life situations and with interaction with other people. We take advantage of the new and innovative ways of teaching and apply in our classrooms. Learning must change with the times and the challanges. Students are more receptive if they can understand and relate to what their learning and how it relates to their lives. People learn better by interacting with other people we are social creatures and need to realise that fact.
Educational progressivisim is the theory that people and animals recieve the best learning through actual interactions with other people rather than a typical teaching method. Inidividuals who believe in the theory called progressivist educators believe that people at a young age learn things as if they were scientist. They conduct a process that resembles a model developed by Jhon Dewey illustrating a five step learning process which includes awareness of the problem or situation, developing a hypothesis to create a solution presented and test the most likely solution to the problem. The ideal teaching tool for an educator who is a progrssivist, aside from acquiring and applying information based on a given subject or skill, is to provide their pupils with a real life simulation to provide hand on experiance in the skill or lesson being taught, which essentially describes a common philosophy that is embraced by practioners of this theory which is "learn by doing".
Humans learn by doing and do because they have learned. This is a basic principle and one that I strongly agree with. My test scores on show what I feel is one of the basic things that need to be considered when making a lesson plan for a class. My educational philosophy is based on the fact that humans learn better by relating to the subject and seeing how that applys to their real life situations. In the late nineteenth century educators pedaga Gogy become to be more progressive and initated a movement that persisted into todays times. No child left behind policy is an example of that movement. A classroom is also a neccasity this philosophy is courrently conducted in many secondary educational mediums such as technical instatutes and hand on training for begining employees and in corperate america.