A Reflection Paper On My Philosophy Of Education

Part A

My Philosophy of Education

Every educator has their own philosophy for their teaching regardless for young children or adults, as we have this philosophy, we will follow the guideline or the mission that we want to teach for our students. In my experience teaching, I have evoked with some of my feeling to young children. With this philosophy that I have, I can work with it with my passionate to work along with young children. I also believe with the philosophy that I have set, I need to fulfill the work and provide good quality practice to work with young children in order they can grow more holistically, they can learn more confident and gain their knowledge. Philosophy also will help us to work along with young children and their

She has also emphasize that creativity should invented in the education system and has to be start from young children. Individual self-esteem is important for a young child, if the person has growth up in a healthy environment; it will have high self-esteem levels. While if a child growth up with lot of negative thought it will lead the child has low self-esteem and has very low confident level. Each of individual self- esteem is involve in their belief, cultural, emotion as well as emotion. She also mentions that in Abraham Maslow hierarchy needs, self-esteem is the basic needs for individual. In this system, each individual personality will be built up along their life; it is also an important key for each parent, teacher or other to build children self-esteem. They also need someone to recognize to give affirmation and value them. In order to develop a child with high self- esteem, we need to give children have freedom and not constrain their idea. It will lead them toward to achieve self-actualization

Teacher would not prepare any of the material or information when they start their class, teacher will gather their students in the class and they will have open discussion on the particular topics that they want to learn. Example: Reggio Emilio method is a very good example that provides student and teacher to discuss the topics that they want to learn on. Teacher in the classroom as the facilitator to guide their student when they have the problem looking on the material, gather the information or they can’t understand the topics that they need to discuss on. Teacher will sit at same level and observe students when they have some discussion among their peers, at the same time, teacher will provides some questions to help students understand more on the particular topics. Sometimes teacher will provide some challenging question to students, it is because the teacher in learner centered understand each student development progress. Teacher will be able to evaluate each students learning process, and it will help the teacher to scaffold each students to higher level. During the discussion, teacher also be able identify some of the students have learning difficulties, therefore teacher will be able to differentiate and created the better learning level or context to each student, and it can show how the student being support by their teacher. Through their understanding of each