Education is like a growing plant

Education is like a plant. When you first plant a plant it is helpless and needs to be taken care of. It needs water and sunlight. I feel that education is similar because when a child first starts getting an education they are helpless and they rely on their teachers and parents to tell them what they need to do and when. And they rely on their teachers and parents to teach them what they need to know in their first years of life. The same goes for a plant. When it is just a sprout it doesn't know anything and it can't take care of itself and get through bad weather or anything like that and it needs to be protected. As a child grows up they begin to learn and grow on their own, and by the time that they get to high school they are able to take care of themselves and they are able to know what they need to learn and they don't rely so much on their teachers and parents and they are given more responsibility. As a seed grows into a sprout and into a seedling and eventually into a plant it doesn't need as much protection and it is able to get it's own food from the sun and it will be protected against the different types of weather. I feel that these two are close to the same because they have almost the same growing process. And they both need people at first to get them on the right foot.

Philosophy in Education

Philosophy in Education: There are many different example of philosophy in education. I choose to look at Humanism. Humanism states that there should be kindness and respect towards everyone, and in the classroom the children should all receive appropriate instruction when it comes to learning things outside of the classroom. It says that the kids should not be forced to learn and that they will learn what they need to learn in time. It also says that the kids do not need to be judged by the teachers and that they should be allowed more freedom when it comes to judging the work that they have done, and the grades that they have received.

I agree and disagree with this philosophy. I agree with this because I do think that the students should be given more freedom when it comes to making choices that affect them and that helps me achieve their goals later on, but I also believe that all throughout school the students need the teachers to be there to guide them and give them direction when it is needed. That's how we learn, but listening to others and watching what others have done.

It seems that if the kids had more of a say over their own education then a lot of them might start to enjoy it more than they do now. I think that because instead of being forced to do it, it shows that they want to do it, and they may even ask for help more because it shows that they are doing this for them and not someone else.

The environment when it comes to Humanism has to do with both indoors and outdoors. I think that there should be outdoors involved in the school but a lot of the education should be done in a classroom where the teacher is the one teaching and the children are sitting and listening.

Inclusion in the classroom

What can educators do to create environments for students with exceptionalities?

As the years go on educators have to deal more and more with a more diverse classroom. They have to accommodate many different students to the best of that student’s ability. A lot of the children that are in the classrooms need some type of extra help in order for them to get the same education that everyone else is getting. When you have your own classroom you as the educator needs to make sure that everyone is able to do work, whether there are special worksheets for some of the children all of the children should be included in every activity that goes on in the classroom.

The teachers need to make sure they have everything planned out for both students, the ones who don’t have a learning disability and for the ones that do. Most of the children that are in a regular classroom will not have a severe learning disability but their level of work they are able to do may be to a lower standard than a regular child. As the teacher you need to take that into consideration and to grade him or her based on the level of performance they are able to do.

Having students with learning disabilities within a regular classroom helps them develop their social skills and makes other children aware of what some other kids have to go with. It shows that other kids that they are the same as everyone only they may need extra help when it comes to doing some of the work.