Developing Your Stance Toward Education

1.What is the good? Who is the good person living in the good society?

          In Education, to me the good is helping students and others grow around you. School becomes a community. I've learned in my school counseling classes that I will become in parentis to my students, like a parent. Students spend most of their days and years with us as they are growing up. It is up to us in the education system to help mold them into wonderful people of society.

          The good person living in the good society is and can be all of us. We all have the potential to be great. One of the quotes I found when trying to answer this question was "A good education can change anyone, but a good teacher can change everything". It reminds me that you never know what impact you are making on someone else's life, and you never know what part of their journey you are impacting.

2.What is the purpose of education?

To produce high achievement.

Socialization. Equal opportunity.

To create opportunities so that individuals can develop along unique paths.

To create hard working individuals who will contribute to society.

to enrich.

3.What should everyone learn? Why?

          How to learn from their own mistakes. Sometimes it is not about the end product but about the journey. It is okay to fall and mess up, but it is more important how you got up and out of it and how you can learn from it. One profession once told me, its not about where you start the race or how your moving through it, but its that you finish. There is so much pressure on doing things the right way, but there is not just one right way to succeed in life, its what works best for you.

4.What is the nature of learning?

Introspection. Building on previous information.

Thinking beyond "I" to "we".

Problem solving. Understanding.

Growing.

Creating a life.

Enriching.

5.What is (excellent) teaching?

          Being passionate about what you are teaching and doing your best to enrich as many tinny humans as you can.

          An Excellent teacher is a life long learner who is also flexible and willing to change with the times in order to help her students grow and really engage in what they are learning.

6.What does school do? 

Provides leadership.

Structure.

Exploration.

A place to find independence.

A community.