Exploring Personal Values: Respect, Responsibility, Understanding

Axiology is the study of the Nature of Values. As an Existentialist I believe that a person’s choices are what creates the human being. As I am a military child, I have had a very strict life. While most of the values I learned were from my home life, school and other sources backed these values up. I will focus on my top three values which are respect, responsibility, and understanding. The others that will guide my practice are discipline, trying your best, kindness, and commitment. The first value that came to my mind was respect. Respect is very important because you must earn others respect and vice versa. I learned this, first, through my home, by respecting my parent’s wishes, even if it was not something I agreed with. Thus in turn,

Personally, I am for moral, character and ethics and values education in the classrooms. Students spend most of their time in schools and they should learn how to make their own choices from all of the information. Morals education is the most controversial because morals are very personal and the teacher cannot push their opinion onto the students. The teacher must give all the information on the topic, but not give his or her opinion. A controversial topic in schools today is teaching about LGBTQ. Students need to receive the education so they can make their own opinions on topics like that. Character education, I feel, is impossible to teach without it coming into play. For example, if a child is acting out in class, you have to stop the behavior by giving the student a punishment. Teachers also give rewards for behavior if students are good during the week. Values education is another aspect that I find very hard to not teach with. As a teacher, I am going to be coming into my classroom with my values, like the ones I talked about before, and as a teacher my values will come out when I teach. I will expect my students to be respectful of me, and that is a value. It is very hard for teachers not to teach character and value education. It is also teaching students to be respectful and standup