EDEC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Teaching Philosophy, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Adult Education

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 260
• Professor: Ronald Morris

Document Summary

Developing your personal teaching philosophy and actually using it in your professional practice! To develop a working mindset for visualizing and feeling confident about creating a. One that goes beyond the pedagogical realm and accounts for your social posture as well. What you have to offer as a teacher: To grasp some of the key dimensions that underlie statements of teaching philosophies: what such statements are, what they do, what they consist of. To start to integrate emerging ideas into structuring your own personal teaching philosophies. To recognize the need for articulating your own social posture in your future public role as educator. A form of critical self-reflection that enables educators to identify, align, and shape their personal instructional and wider educational goals and agency through their practice. Resembles a professional mission statement touching upon who one is as a human, citizen, and educator it"s o(cid:374)e"s mandate in his or her public role as practitioner.