Creating a Bright and Motivating Learning Environment
Discuss about the Education And Sustainable Development In Lesotho.
Each and every educator has his own philosophy in teaching the students which can effectively guide him throughout his professional career. In most of the cases, there philosophies are based on the personal value and belief system and understand of ensuring the high quality of education provided to the students. The personal philosophies of the teachers never clash with the professional philosophy. These are prepared and maintained in the collaboration with the colleagues and interested parents as they are invited to introduce their own suggestions regarding their children’s education. The personal philosophy has an ever changing nature which can be changed according to time as well as situations. The philosophy that I have built to provide a high quality education to my students can oppose the desires or values of the parents but my idea or philosophy will never be comprised rather I will be recommending facts that will be suited for the parents of the students.
As an educator, the first and foremost idea is to make the learning environment bright, motivating, secured and attractive so that the students are inspired to achieve their talents or potentials which is also the principle of EYLF (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Through intentional teaching and spontaneous as well as responsive communication, the proper exposure of full potential can be attained. Through my efficient teaching methods, I aim to satisfy the students in every aspect of their learning. As the theorists like Rousseau and Piaget have disclosed the fact that the children are connected with their world and try to contribute effectively, therefore, I focus on creating spaces which will help them to identify as well as develop their social, emotional physical, spiritual, lingual and finally their intellectual senses. I am greatly influenced by the philosophy of Rousseau as he stated that the responsibilities of the educators are not only to apply the technique to clarify the concepts and knowledge their pupils but there are also responsible to develop the character of the students as well as their moral senses (Galbraith, 2017). This will help the children to learn the self-mastery and they will learn to realm virtuous in every situation in their lives.
To me, it is important that the children are nurtured, valued and respected as the individuals. As an educator, it is my responsibility that I assume the accountability to identify the students’ personal as well as educational development as they are under my care. Therefore, my philosophy is to plan and care for the students thus stimulate and challenge their various types of needs cultures, talents along with interests of my students. As an educator I am liable to support the children’s learning progress throughout their journey through constant observation, documentation, planning, evaluation then reflection as mandated by EYLF (Nolan & Raban, 2015). In this aspect I can name the theorist Froebel which identified that the children have strong sense of wellbeing. To me the wellbeing of the children is essential for their all-inclusive development and this development will be irrespective of their personal backgrounds for example race, gender, religion, culture and disability. To me this exceeds to support the families from the various background in their role as the care givers. Regular communication with the families can be an integral part of my role as an educator, a principle of EYLF (Nolan & Raban, 2015). This will help me to get integrated with the families of the children and provide an overall support to the development of the children.
Building Spaces for Student Development
I am very much influenced with the philosophy of Erikson as he states that the children have a very strong sense of identity. This theorist has argued that the children in their lives face various types of problems through which the learn to develop themselves both socially as well as emotionally. On the support of this theory, Piaget has stated that these external factors help the children to explore more thus gain maturity (Nolan & Raban, 2015). By following these theorists, I aim to build a safe and homely yet educational and stimulating environment so that children get full scope to develop themselves. In this environment the children will gain the experience of high quality influencing measures and a touch of trust upon one another which will bring a mentality of security in their minds. My philosophy attempts to ensure a warm supportive and caring atmosphere where each of the children will get success, love, grow, secure thus improve a sense of belonging. The atmosphere of trust, cooperation yet stimulation, will create an atmosphere of positivity which will genuinely effective in their learning process.
To me, the intentions of the educations in providing knowledge are not the only focus of being an efficient educator. It is mandatory to care the students genuinely. Without genuine intention for the wellbeing of the children the educators can never be success in the effective knowledge sharing views. The children when find no interest from the part if the educators, do not feel attached with what they are teaching or what instructions they are providing for the growth. This lack of attachment among the educators and the children leads to complete failure of the education system as the teachers do not get respected by their pupils. This is one of the major outcome of incapability as an effective educator. The ultimate success of the educator’s philosophy is associated with the pupils respecting him more than anything. The educators can be successful only when their students will see them as the role models and follow whatever they speak or actions they take. Their actions as well as choices are to be appreciated and followed.
According to the eminent educator, Montessori, the children are involved learners hence confident (Ansell, 2016). Therefore, I prefer to provide apt atmosphere ascribed in the EYLF for the overall growth of the children.to me, as the children are involved learners, they should be provided choices, scopes responsibilities and the opportunities for initiating their own learnings (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Through this choice they will be able to engage themselves to develop maturity than their peers and get exposure if their talents. This is the method how I expose these children in building their confidence and determination. By following the guidelines of National Quality Standards and National Quality Framework and ACEQUA, I believe proper observations as well as assessments can be some excellent tools which will be used by me when I am planning their curriculum (Acecqa.gov.au, 2018). In this curriculum I create a child-centred atmosphere where my pupils have huge opportunity to excel to will new challenges by the means of activities as well as topics which are meaningful for them. This is how the children build their self-esteem due to the reason that they develop as well as learn effectively. The observations from my part as an educator aide to create the curriculum in one hand, and give the insight into their personal development, knowledge and most importantly the skill levels of every individual child.
Nurturing Each Child’s Development
I as an educator, I always encourage the children to feel proud of who they are. Identifying personal identity these children can become effective learner in one hand which is my chief aim and become a good human being as they understand the difference between good and bad. In my program following EYLF these children build a healthy interpersonal relationship among themselves and express their full potential as the relationship builder (Galbraith, 2017). His help them in their work and play and outshine others. I aim to help the pupils to develop the feeling of self-worth in the minds of the students so that they do not feel dependant on others. I promise the children to provide an assistive, productive and peaceful atmosphere therefore they will be flourished in every aspect yet very much self-disciplined.
Vygotsky has focussed on the literacy part of the development of the children (Nolan & Raban, 2015). Following his trail, I believe, the early years of the lives of the children are very busy. I assume therefore, learning is a continuous process at this time and happening all the time. This is not the only actions focussing on the field of learning but is intertwined in all the domains of physical as well as mental development of the children. These also include the development process of social, sensitive, cognitive, responsive and communication. Therefore, I feel that it is important to make the ongoing learning experience of the children to be safe, nurturing, positive, and fun based on which the whole world of the child. I attempt to guide my students into the consecutive stages of personal and educational development. In this process I want to stay with them and help them to grow confidence in themselves. Thus I aim to mix personal development with an excitement to the continuous process of learning.
One of the major part in the children’s’ development is the process of becoming effective communicator. The process of my teaching and guiding my student is very much involving. Through perfect learning process, the children grow their talent of communication exactly heat they think. This expression or communication on a particular subject, show their efficiency of choosing appropriate words to form the sentences they communicate verbally or in their writings. In this aspect, I want to guide the students to use effective behaviours as well as actions. Guidelines of responsible as well as sensible behaviour can make the children conscious of the consequences and values of choices along with actions these children make (Bush, 2017). In communicating their feelings, the impact of their own decision I believe is very important. The children therefore need to be given the opportunities for learning from their choices and provided the opportunity for making their own choices based on personal learning. Despite the fact that my students will have ample freedom to act as they think but still I strategies the confines of security for themselves as well as the others. This is because the students of young ages are easily engrossing by any type of ideas as well as thoughts. In this time, they need proper guidance for their parents as well as the teachers. In case any of these two aspects is compromised, the overall growth will be hampered.
Therefore, it can be concluded that as an effective educator, I am committed to continually extend to strengthen the professional learning of these children in one hand and support in their overall nurturing and growth of these children. I am very much influenced by various theorists who have shared their insights so that the educators like us can easily form our philosophies currently matching with the demand of the time as well as situation. I am responsible to communicate my knowledge with these children effectively but it is more important that build an effective relation with their families and community so that the children can have proper education in their early age and become strong understanding of the social, psychological, lingual and environmental aspects.
References:
Acecqa.gov.au. (2018). What is the NQF?. Retrieved from https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/about
Ansell, N. (2016). Children, education and sustainable development in Lesotho. In Sustainable development: National aspirations, local implementation (pp. 131-152). Routledge.
Bush, K. S. (2017). Philosophy for Teachers (p4t)): A Study of the Philosophy for Children Hawaii (p4cHI) Educational Framework Applied in Pre-Service Teacher Education(Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai’i at Manoa).
Galbraith, S. (2017). Early learning centres: Being, belonging, and becoming in Christ. Christian Teachers Journal, 25(4), 20.
Nolan, A., & Raban, B. (2015). Theories into practice: understanding and rethinking our work with young children and the EYLF. Teaching Solutions.
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