What is your EP (Educational Philosophy)?
Review and consider how strongly you agree or disagree with the following statements. Then use the following scale to indicate your level of agreement with each item.
Agree Strongly
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Disagree Strongly
The most important role of a teacher is to be a model for intellectual and moral excellence in the classroom.
By studying humans in their natural settings we can discover universal moral laws.
Although truth is changeable, we can discover it by using the scientific method.
The main question that teachers should ask students is "what does this idea or content mean to you?"
While vocational studies have their place, most students should be required to have a strong liberal arts education.
The most important task for a teacher is to promote reasoning within a particular content area.
The role of the teacher is to engage students in active problem solving applied to social and personal problems.
Truth is subjective and based on personal experiences and beliefs.
There are enduring and unchanging truths and values in all subject areas that students need to understand.
To learn facts and truth in a content area, teachers may need to use considerable drill and practice.
Use of the scientific method is a major goal of education.
The teacher’s primary role is to enable students to create their own values.
Students learn best when they study the ideas and the works of great people.
There are enduring truths in all subject areas that students can discover by careful reasoning.
When deciding what curriculum should be emphasized for students, decisions should be based on real life usefulness of the content.
If forced to choose between covering the content and exploring personal perspectives, a teacher should choose personal exploration.
Time tested great literary works should be required reading for all students even at the expense of more popular readings.
The curriculum should be based on "the basics" and rely on drill and memorization as learning strategies.
The most important role of the teacher is to facilitate reflection and use the scientific method to solve problems.
The most important concepts to explore with students in the classroom revolve around love, freedom, responsibility, death, and values.
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Pragmatism
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The more points you have in each column, the more your own philosophy matches with established philosophies. The highest possible score in any area is 25 and the lowest score would be 5. A score of 20 or above in any area would indicate a strong agreement while a score less than 10 would indicate little agreement. Where are your highest scores and where are your lowest? Does it appear that your own philosophy is highly representative of the classical ways of thinking about education or do you have a tendency to embrace more than one philosophical stance?
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