Anelka Navarrete

Steven Saladino

EDU 201

December 1, 2021

My Educational Philosophy

My biggest goal in life is to become an educator. Becoming an educator will make an

impact on others. When studying in the education field, there will always be people who will

question you. They’ll always give remarks about how much money you’ll make and other things.

But what really matters is how many lives you’ll change. How many kids you’ll inspire and

within those kids are more future educators.

I want to become an educator to spread kindness and show diversity in my classroom. I

want my students to always feel free to express themselves and feel like they have a safe place to

be themselves. The first person who inspired me to become an educator was my 7th grade choir

teacher. I loved my choir class, I loved to sing and I just loved music in general. Eventually 8th

grade here came along and it was time to choose a high school to go to. Fortunately, my grades

were good enough to apply to magnet schools. I decided to enroll in ECTA where they have an

education program. At the beginning I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to continue education but

eventually I felt much better about it and I just felt it was something I wanted to pursue. At

ECTA I had the opportunity to be a teacher along with my classmates at our scbool’s preschool

junior year. Senior year we were able to have internships and I was able to teach my classroom a

lesson. Unfortunately, COVID 19 hit and we were forced to stop our internships, but it was an

amazing experience and I wouldn't change it for the world.

 Psychological orientations that form my current beliefs on education are constructivism

and social/contextual. Constructivism is ‘an approach to learning that holds that people actively

construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the

learner’.(McLoed, 2019) With constructivism students are able to construct their own knowledge.

Students will be able to make an understanding of what they’re learning through a process. Social

and contextual is “learning is a shared process which takes place through observing, working

together and being part of a larger group, which includes colleagues of varying levels of

experience, able to stimulate each other's development.” (Thompson, 2012) One of the most

important educational historical events is Brown vs. Board. It is something that has shaped our

educational system today. There are no longer segregated schools and every race is allowed to

study together in the same building.

When it comes to teaching, I would really want to implement diversity in my classroom. I

myself am hispanic and it’s very important for hispanic kids to feel welcomed into a classroom.

Especially if those students don’t know english. Of course that will probably change eventually

but for now that’s the case. A strategy that could be used in a classroom about diversity are

lesson plans based on social identity. Students could learn about different traditions, cultures and

other things around the world. Another strategy that could be used in a classroom are open ended

questions. This question has no wrong or right answer and they could also involve more than one

answer. It’s a good way to get the students to be more engaged and understanding.

In order to achieve my goal of being an educator, I obviously need to take a lot of

education classes. Luckily I feel I’ve gained a lot of information about ECE because of my high

school and all my experience. I would like to be part of an internship again since I was not able

to finish my senior year.

 Works Cited

McLeod, Saul. “Saul McLeod.” Constructivism as a Theory for Teaching and Learning |

Simply Psychology, www.simplypsychology.org/constructivism.html.

“The Five Major Theories of How People ‘Learn’: a Synopsis.” The Bumble Bee,

www.bioteams.com/2012/11/05/the_five_major.html.