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 This article touched on the many ways a teacher can present material to students based on their own individual philosophies. It goes through all the famous philosophers and their contribution to the differing theories. The article talked about the importance and implication of each one and how they affect the teacher material and overall assessment of the classroom environment. Out of this entire over analytical talk, never once did this article mention how your students affect or change your own personal philosophies.
Over the duration of this semester we have learned how much the student’s affect how we teach. From motivation, to curriculum, to testing, it is the students who ultimately determine the classroom environment. We see every week how much our mentor teachers have to cater to the types of students they have. If you are stuck into classifying your teaching style how are we, as educators, going to learn from our students. It is so important to be taking cues from the students or suffer loosing their attention.  Last week we talked about defensive teaching, even though I did not agree with it, this is the most productive form of teaching in an environment you can’t always control.

For new teachers these philosophies seem useless to learn. Many of us will not know what style best fits the environment that we’re teaching in.  Overtime once we get our feet wet then, we can asses what type of philosophy best correlates with our lives and our teaching style. To me this article was a pointless one to read and I got nothing from it.