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Michael Svesson

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Philosophy of Education

My Personal Education Philosophy Progressivism and essentialism have the strongest influence on my personal education philosophy in that one emphasizes the necessity of critical knowledge and skills to be successful and the other emphasizes the importance of emplementing those skills correctly to problem solve in order to be successful in the real world. I am a true believer of both these philosophies and having a real world business background will certainly influence my actions and dealings in the classroom. I personally think that education is giving children the knowledge, tools, and the mindset to succeed in whatever endeavor they attempt. If as teachers we do not develop our teaching methods to influence this understanding, then the knowledge we pass on to our students is not retained. Retaining the knowledge in order to apply it in adulthood is a key factor in my opinion. To some degree, I think this has been lost by today's students; hard work is no longer required and everything is supposed to be given to them. To some degree, I believe that the postmodernism philosophy has become too mainstream and a strong contributing factor. The rich will stay richer and those in power will stay in power if education can be controlled or distributed to our children in a way that isn’t retained. Standardized testing that is supposed to measure the minimum becomes the goal of our students and teachers. In my classroom, I hope to influence my students to set higher goals and to motivate them toward the understanding that what they are learning now will be used again and again in their adult lives. That is why connecting current learning to how they will use it in their not-to-distant futures is so important to me.