· What are your hopes for each of your future students? What do you want them to achieve, accomplish, learn, feel, etc.?

Personal Philosophy (100 points)
A personal philosophy of education emerges from thoughtful responses to questions such as the ones listed below and professional experience. A good way to begin is for you to write a series of statements related to your beliefs about the learner, the teacher, the subject matter, the classroom climate, and assessment. Using these thoughts as a rough draft and a starting point, work toward clarifying, reviewing, and refining your philosophy of education by responding to the questions listed below that help you understand your innermost beliefs about schooling, teaching, and learning. Your response must be typed, double-spaced, and should be around two pages in length.
Questions to consider:
· In your opinion, what are the broad goals of education? How can they best be met?
· What are your hopes for each of your future students? What do you want them to achieve, accomplish, learn, feel, etc.?
· What kind of knowledge and skills do you believe are most important for students, and how should they gain that knowledge and those skills? What will be your role in that process?
· Will you consciously promote certain values in your classroom? If so, which values will you choose? Why? If not, why not?
· What kind of environment do you hope to create in your classroom? How does this relate to your basic beliefs about students and learning?
· Given the diversity of families, how will you include them in the education of their children?
Make sure to include the following ideas in your discussion:
· Which philosophy or philosophies do you think best fit you? (Perennialism, Essentialism, Romanticism, Progressivism). The state will expect you to know these.
· What do you believe about these branches of philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, and logic?
Metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, logic are not philosophies, but they are aspects or branches of all philosophies. Your Chapter 9 text and PowerPoints will give you a great deal of help with this assignment.

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