Your culminating project will be a final paper in which you bring together your reflections on the Touro CLOs, your
reflections on your own identity through which you meet your students and do
your teaching work, and the historical events and philosophical forces that
have shaped the current schooling contexts in which we work.
Your personal education philosophy explains the beliefs and
ideas that underlie your thinking and regulate your actions.
Specifically drawing on what you’ve learned in the course
and citing multiple texts from the course, your APA-style paper should reflect
on how you, as a teacher, will
Continually and
deliberately reflect on my practices in light of educational research,
professional decisions, and pedagogical approaches. (Reflexive Praxis)
Create contexts for
learning that are driven by evidence-based principles of diversity,
difference, inclusion, and equity. (Learner Centeredness)
Apply knowledge, concepts,
and strategies across domains to engage individuals and promote critical
thinking and creativity. (Discipline Knowledge and Skills)
Demonstrate attitudes,
knowledge, skills, and professional ethics that contribute to the success
and well-being of all individuals. (Professional Commitment to Action)
Evaluate, plan, select,
and implement appropriate formative and summative assessments–including
those that are technology based–to monitor individuals’ understanding,
behavior, and progress. (Data Literacy and Research)
The following questions may help
to guide the creation of the action plan to implement your personal
philosophy:
· Who are you as a
student and teacher? How have you come to know what you know about education
and schooling? In what ways have your cultural identities and social
experiences shaped your understanding of education and schooling?
·
Is American education moving in the right direction? How can you
transform your ideas about
education and schooling into praxis, advocacy, and action?
· Which aspects of your
own and others’ philosophies would you like to focus on in your teaching?
· What action steps will
you take to bring these philosophies to life in your practice?
· How will you assess
your growth and progress toward actualization of your personal philosophy of
education?
· What historical philosophies,
ideas, and theories of education that we learned about in this course are still
present in schools, and which would you like to preserve in current educational
practices?
· How does/should
culturally responsive pedagogy manifest in your work?
How does/should culturally responsive pedagogy manifest in your work?
OUTLINE:
Please use Dr. Bullmaster Module 1- Assignment 1 as the beginning of the paper.
