Personal Reflection Of My Personal Ideas For Lifelong Learning

Education should provide lifelong learning and a variety of learning styles for students to obtain from the teacher. Education is the foundation for all aspects of life. Education to me is more than textbook knowledge; it is also personal life skills gained in the classroom. I know that it is a teacher’s job to cover the curriculum but I also believe that it is the teacher’s responsibility to develop the whole child. By this, I mean that the teacher should be concerned with a child’s emotional, mental, physical and cognitive abilities. School is more than just a building where the fundamental subject areas are taught, it is a place of growth and learning. Here is where a child learns to socialize, respect others and develop a sense of high
My personal ideas are similar to Piaget’s because I believe that learning is active. Students should be inclusive in their learning process by giving input on ways that are best for them to learn. This can include the different learning styles such as auditory, visual or kinesthetic. I also believe that although students should be included in their learning experience, the teacher should be the one to facilitate the actual learning activities by providing the students with engaging and encouraging activities. I believe that teachers should keep their students engaged by providing them with different activities such as hands on lessons and learning centers to include interactive learning. Piaget believed that teachers should offer real world experiences and relevant and engaging lessons. He proposed that children 's thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead, there are certain points at which it "takes off" and moves into completely new areas and capabilities (Atherton,
He felt that students and people should have their own choice of what they want to learn and that what people know in life was never taught in school. He felt that the schools infused children with boredom and fear but if an educator includes a child in creative lessons and a means for learning, this can turn an entire classroom around (Holt, 1967). Holt’s ideas are different from mine because I feel that students and people in school need to meet baselines in school and have standards. There needs to be standards in place so that everything across the board is equal. If students chose what they wanted to learn, there would be chaos around the world and no means for one to establish a cutoff point or even a starting point on