Educational philosophy is a huge factor when we talk about schooling and how we teach our learners. As an educator you would want your students to grow up understanding the key elements of life as well as knowing how to support themselves as futuristic adults. My understanding from school came very late, there were many things I wish I had learned in school that could potentially help me in my life right now. For instance, how to budget and save money, how to do taxes, the proper and efficient way to find a job, and even how to deal with anxiety and stress during intensive school semesters. Those issues perhaps sound like something that would never be taught in school because they are not apart of the ordinary Math, English, and Science curriculum but I feel if it was, the change we would see in students would be immensely large.

            As a future educator I want my students to know I don’t only care about their learning I care about them as individuals as well and I feel as if students don’t always see that. They often look at teachers as workers and nothing else but they’re more then that and they should be seen as more. For my educational philosophy I feel its important to know that progressivism is something that is progressing and moving forward which is what we want to see our students modelling as well.  “Progressivism focuses on how ideas should be tested by active experimentation. Learning rooted in questions of learners in interaction with others. Experience and student centered.”  (Cohen.M, Gelbrich.J, OSU- School of Education. 1999)

I chose to support a progressivism philosophy of education because it allows the educator to create the curriculum for his/her students based on their interests and what they want to learn. It also focuses on having the ideas tested first, this way it will allow the educator to see whether they work on the students or not. This will help us narrow down what methods work well with which students.