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Progressive Philosophy

Chloe flock

Introduction to Special Education 203

Personal Philosophy Paper

Thursday, May 5, 2022

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Growing up as a kid in special education classes, I have had plenty of experiences with

bad teachers and the style of teaching they have. As I recall, there were just a handful of teachers

that were good at their jobs and knew what they were doing with their students. I do not want to

be one of those teachers a student is going to forget because they did not make a big enough

impression on them, or they are just bad at teaching. Every new school year, teachers get to see a

new set of students with distinctive characteristics, experiences, and ideas. As a teacher, I can

bring new topics, new strategies, and new lessons to the students in the classroom. While I was

observing my cooperating teacher at my field observation, in a teaching environment, students

can make the classroom feel lively and fun watching students learn new things, have new

experiences, and socialize most of the time. But there are moments as bad some frustrating or

stressful moments when comes to students.

Like 50 years plus years ago, all our ancestors were trying to get a good education they

could get, so they could have a good life. that sounds nice, right? But then it was not sunshine

and rainbows back then. For girls, nobody believed women should have an education or work at

job, they should only look pretty and learn to be a pleasant stay at home wife. For boys, they told

to go to school to learn to provide the house. They are only learning the basic things to know like

English, writing and math, etc. The kind of philosophy that I would teach is a progressive. I

picked this philosophy because definition of progressive teaching matches my beliefs when it

comes to teaching. I read from a website says that in progressivist schools, students are actively

learning. The students interact with one another and develop social qualities such as cooperation

and tolerance for different points of view (“Progressivism”). I also believe that progressive

teaching is method that students should need to be successful in life because of how people

parent and teach their children you see nowadays.

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In my future classroom, the two strategies that I would like to implement for my students,

which is active learning, and differentiated instruction. active learning is a teaching technique

that increases student engagement in daily lessons. I use this strategy by having my students

produce questions for the class on a recent lesson and I would also ask my students to write

down a part in the lesson that was not that clear to them. Differentiated instruction is a popular

and effective teaching technique that involves adapting material and processes to the various

learning styles in each classroom (“36 Powerful Teaching Strategies to Level Up Learning in

2022”). For example, learning stations and the think-pair-share approach are two simple methods

to provide your kids with unique learning opportunities. But there are other strategies I would

like to Implement in my students because even though, these strategies I would like to do. It

might not work for my students, which is okay.

When thinking about qualities that make a good teacher, what came to my mind was

dedication to teaching, knowledge of learners, patient, and caring, which is very important

qualities to have as teacher. But there are also other qualities that I am scared I don’t have as a

teacher. A teacher needs to be adaptable and flexible to be a good teacher to students, for

adaptability and being flexible is something I am not great at. To help me achieve the goal of

being flexible and adaptable, I should get more confrontable in the environment of a classroom.

Once I get in UNLV and start to student teaching. That should be help get me achieve the

being adaptable and being flexible after being in a classroom environment and getting

confrontable with it.

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Work cited

“36 Powerful Teaching Strategies to Level Up Learning in 2022.” Prodigy Education,

www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/teaching-strategies. Accessed 6 May 2022.

“Progressivism.” The Foundation of Education,

www.siue.edu/%7Eptheodo/foundations/progressivism.html. Accessed 6 May 2022.

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