Every philosophy is an ideological work based on beliefs and facts. I don't have a designed and coherent philosophy of teaching. But I do have some, say, facile beliefs and feelings. Some of them are quite common among people; some of them aren't.
1. Schooling as a formal institution is an antinatural demand.
2. Schooling, as it is known in today's societies, is both a product and a result of capitalism.
3. The Family, and mostly the mother, is the first element in which newborns and kids rely upon in order to ensure surviving (imprinting mechanism).
4. Because of (3), the family, and mostly the mother, is the element according to which kids organize their lifes. That is, they learn their families' attitudes and values they attach to facts.
5. A student is more interested in something that he can associate with his personal history (ontogeny).
6. Something is learnt better if is accompanied by an emotion. Emotions depend mostly on (3), (4) y (5), as well as on instintual mechanisms designed to garantee surviving.
7. Students are not stupid. They watch and judge all the movements the class does (at the begining based on the elements given by the family to face the world).
8. Contents have to match the students' stage of development.
9. Most of the time students won't give the best of them if moral pressure is not applied.
10. Teaching is improved if a consciouss plan of objectives and means is carried out.
11. Good teaching depends in a great extend on the experience of the teacher, wether this be academic or practical (first-hand with the subject of teaching).
12. Having a BA in the specific field that one teaches is not a condition to good teaching (whatever the subject is), neither a strong garantee.
13. A teacher must be accurate in the field he teaches.
14. There is not such thing as a patology/normal standard that is accurate enough to explain what happens with a particular kid. There are behavioral trends.
15. Modern parents are generally reluctant to accept their children's cultural-considered, bad behaviors.
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I understand it's hard to design a coherent philosophy of teaching, but the longer you take to get started the longer it'll take 'til you have your very own statement of teaching philosophy. Some of your beliefs are a bit controversial (which reminds me of the Sebastian I met in fourth semester) but it would have been way more instructive to see some ideas better developed. Needless to say, some of them might need to be "polished" in case you want to write a formal statement of teaching philosophy, say, to apply for a job overseas.
If you get to enrich that set of beliefs with real world experience, you will have some good material to start shaping your philosophy of teaching.
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