What is Your Philosophy of Education?

As teachers who are just starting out, we often say the phrase "When I become a teacher......." with our grand plan that we almost never stick to. Like the video, some teachers end up not fulfilling the promises or plans they made when they themselves first said "When I become a teacher...". I know for myself, I had so many different ideas that would end up turning out to be almost impractical. For example, If there was a due date of an assignment, I was not going to accept any late work and it would be given an automatic zero. In the position I have now, if I did that almost all of my students would be failing! Not to discredit them, but we as new or young teachers often start our careers with the philosophy that everything in our classroom is going to be perfect.
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After we as teachers start to get into the grove of our teaching and learn our students and our school community, we can start to develop our own philosophy. Our philosophy should be centered around the vision we have for student success and how we want them to achieve that success.
Your philosophy as a teacher not only needs to be centered around your students, but a model that you yourself are comfortable with and fits well within the school environment and population of your students.
A teacher-centered philosophy of education can focus on how the teacher is going to facilitate in the classroom. It is how they are going to guide student motivation, determination, and structure of curriculum.  Where as student-centered education is focused on the goal that the student has for their learning and how they want to get there.
Link - check out this link to see where our foundation and ideas about education philosophies come from!
Some of the most common and widely practiced educational philosophies in the United States now are hands-on do it yourself learning methods. Some of these methods are also referred to as Inquiry learning. In schools, these philosophies are reflected through collaboration with peers, technological advancements, and the "flipped classroom" model.
When carrying out these philosophies, many psychological and cultural values can influence a child's education, such as low-income and inner-city school districts.

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