Agenda to document
Educational purposes, Educational Philosophy, Principled procedures, & Classroom code of conduct or rules
It is important to periodically review our educational purposes, philosophy and also important for me to share mine so you might understand what guides my pedagogical decisions. The following agenda links information to do this and exam documents you may have or to create documents to identify influences on your conceptual framework.
Start with a conceptual framework - Since a conceptual framework is a visual or written representation of how variables are expected to relate to each other, we can start with variables identified on this framework and define what those variables are. This agenda begins the process for educationa lpurposes, philosophy, and principled procedures.
- Purposes of education. This article as a comprehensive resource for educational institutions and educators to provide guidance on determining purposes of education for setting educational goals and outcomes. It includes focus questions and a meta analysis of purposes for education and schooling.
- Philosophy & Donkey Fable. We all have educational philosophies or theories. It is important to know them, as our decisions are based on them, whether we know it or not. Read this short Donkey Fable & discussion for this important point.
- Essays on education and the children served. Hopefully to motivate change. If you are not fired up for this activity, try these warm up articles to get you fired up:
- Children as our gift for a future - reprint of "If you could listen to a child's soul..." by Andrew Vachss
- A Message to Inspire Change in Education: by considering explorative learning
- Quality schools - Explores what is a quality school and how to select them
- Educational philosophy questions - File with these six questions to consider as background for making a powerful educational theory
- Human life is different than animals - What makes us human? - Source with Characteristics of what is human? Humans & animals compared
- Why do we teach and learn?
- How do I know what I know?
- What limits our search for knowledge?
- How does ethics fit with Democracy?
- What do we need to know about educational theory? or What should we know about schooling or educating our children?
- Class responses and summary for six focus questions - The questions are initially answered individually, shared in small groups, then the responses were compiled from all groups, displayed, and summarized. Hang onto to use after reflecting on goals and ideas for teaching.
- Goal setting activity - focus questions to inquiry on teaching to coordinate teaching goals with an educational philosophy.
- I want students in my class to think of me as ...
- What do I want to sound and look like to students?
- How will I assure my decisions and actions are professional and ethical?
- What can students depend on me to do to help them learn?
- How will I help students to better know themselves?
- What do I want to focus on to help students learn?
- How to be life-long learners who know how to learn?
- Content area of ...
- Resilience, difference, diversity is power
- Develop self-efficacy through know how to learn
- Social skills
- Other ...
- I can help students learn the above by doing ...
- Students can or will do the following to facilitate their ability to achieve this:
- I will know students are making progress when they ...
- How will I inquire and reflect on my own teaching development?
- I will use this reflection to help me ...
- My educational philosophy complete - in narrative form includes ideas from
Principled procedures - examples to guide our decision-making to achieve our educational goals.
Classroom management
- Classroom Action plans - philosophy, policies, procedures, and outcomes
- Code of conduct - This page defines a code of conduct. It includes information to explore three different examples of making and implementing a code of conduct and one example of making and implementing classroom rules for a social contract.
Resources
- Research information & wisdom of practice to inform decision making
- Classroom management directory