-Using the App Explain Everything we were assigned to create a multimedia presentation explaining our education philosophy. The presentation was to be 3-5 minutes long and required insight on at least two theorists/philosophers.
-Using the App Shadow Puppet in pairs, we defined what digital literacy is and what various forms of literacy there is within our own content areas.
Our graduates are reflective and contemplative practitioners.
The processes through which these projects were created by defining literacy and my educational philosophy were most definitely reflective and contemplative experiences on my pathway to becoming a future educator. Through defining my educational philosophy I was able to think about how my education philosophy will effect my approaches and motivations when teaching. The process made me reevaluate my motivations for teaching and what I’d like to accomplish as a future educator.
Performance Criterion 4.1: Candidates accurately communicate central concepts of the discipline.
Through defining literacy within history with the Shadow Puppet presentation I was able to identify some of the skills required of students within my content area. Thus forming a further understanding of what approaches to take in the classroom to guide students to become proficient and literate historians. Through the explain everything presentation on my education philosophy I was able to identify and explore some of the concepts related to being an educator in general. Allowing me to explore questions such as what are my goals and intentions as an educator, what approaches will I take when presenting an idea or concept or what approaches can be taken to help students discover and learn on their own tuition.
If the goal of education is to give individuals the skill sets to succeed within their respective society, than curriculum is the approach to providing those skill sets to students and literacy is the level of comprehension in each respective skill set. Through defining my education philosophy and defining what literacy means within my content area, I was able to further my understanding of the connection between literacy and curriculum. Within Social Studies research skills and the ability to contextualize content is part of being a literate individual in the field. Thus curriculum is the approach through which educators take to provide to provide those skill sets. Defining the specific literacy within my content area helped me to further refine ways to approach teaching. By forming a working understanding of what it means to be proficient in a skill set one can begin to form objective goals for their students to reach that proficiency. For example, through creating my presentation on the different forms of literacy within history I was able to further conceptualize curriculum forming questions within the field. Through doing so I was also coming to the realization that curriculum is built around objective literacy goals and the approaches through which to obtain those goals.
When researching Critical Theory/Reconstructionism one specific quote kept coming into mind by Albert Einstein “No problem can be solved by the same level of consciousness that created it.” I found that quote to be congruent with the themes of Critical Theory. Through researching my education philosophy I reaffirmed my personal held belief that teaching is a necessary good for a society to be prepared to carry on in an ever more complex world.
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ReplyDeletePatrick - Your passion is clear! I appreciate your connection to the mission and the connections you made between literacy and curriculum.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the quote at the end of your blog post. I wonder if you could reflect even deeper on that quote and how it relates to your teaching philosophy and if it relates to your definition of literacy?
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