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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In addition to introducing students to new music tools, my teaching philosophy involves introducing students to music at a very young age. In the future, I plan to develop a class for eighth-graders that requires them to create a soundtrack to copyright-free movie clips.

Teaching 132

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AUGUST 21, 2023

I mean, it's good to go over teaching philosophies and models, but I wish it was a little more hands on. Sometimes I wish that some of the content that we learn for the program helped a little more with what we’re doing inside the classroom. Sometimes I wonder, ‘Is it worth it?’

Social Studies 144

Social Studies Teaching Philosophy Coaching Learning Disabilities 144

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JULY 7, 2022

She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains. She plays a folk song with lyrics based on research about the Mann Gulch fire, a blaze that killed a dozen smokejumpers in Montana in 1949.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

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JUNE 6, 2023

Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other.

Teaching Philosophy 218

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ attempts to build a comedy around the topic of moral philosophy. But can a network sitcom accurately teach concepts like existentialism and the works of Plato and Kant? To try to get their facts straight, the show’s creators invited philosophy scholars into the writer’s room for the show.

Teaching Philosophy 167

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Ethics Syllabus 167

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Approaching online course development from perspective of teaching philosophy in general (and not development) can be a more useful inroad for faculty.” -Ben Ben Gottfried, Assistant Director of Instructional Technology, St. That's something we've been working toward and it's good to hear that it's working well.” Olaf College.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

But the exercise also determined that flipped learning wasn’t just another teaching strategy competing with other models, such as project- or mastery-based learning, but rather a kind of bait to get instructors interested in broader teaching philosophies. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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Lecturing Learning Teaching Philosophy Active Learning 155

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MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

Coaching 148

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Discovering a New Perspective Everything changed during my second year of teaching when I enrolled in a multicultural education course as part of my M.Ed. The course, led by professor Cathy Chappell, challenged my views and inspired a new teaching philosophy.

Discussions 141

Discussions Culture Language Languages 141

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But I'm not really bought into ‘guide on the side’ for general learning philosophy or teaching philosophy because so much of how we need to be preparing ourselves, and our learners, is for things we couldn't guide—because we don't know where we're going.

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