Progressivism Classroom Analysis

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I believe the nature of teaching/learning process takes place through the students. From this class I have learned that students are going to have an impact on the way we teach. It’s important that I learn as a future teacher to adapt to all children and if that means changing the way I teach then so be it. If I was to teach in my way and students were not learning then it falls on me thus its important to learn through my future students on which way is more useful to teach. When I know I have gained knowledge from my students, I will see them perform better in the classroom. Students should not be defined by their test scores. Test scores don’t resemble to progress that students have made in the classroom. The way I would know if my students …show more content…
Progressivism classrooms allow students to come up with questions then prove and elaborate on the question to find a conclusion. There is little teacher involvement instead stunted need to learn on their own. Tests do not define the children in a progressivism classroom but how they present themselves sin work and projects. All students are on different levels of learning meaning in a progressivism classroom all students can work in mainstream classroom. Students within the classroom, socially work together to come up with conclusions for their questions. Most activities that take place within a progressivism classroom intergrade and focus on several subjects and skills. One question that I have about this philosophy is if it is appropriate for elementary children. I feel like elementary children have a lot of energy and it might not go as plan but I do believe fifth graders are capable of maintain peace within the classroom. I do like a little bit of strictness with in the classroom by including an essentialist classroom which is a teacher centered philosophy. This philosophy focuses on traditional styles of teaching in which children sit in their desks and listen to the teacher. I feel like many elementary teachers (at least the ones I observed) were focused around this style of classroom because I believe it made the teacher feel more in control and it would be too chaotic. Some other thoughts I have about becoming a teacher is that I’m nervous I won’t know what to do. I fear not having enough knowledge to run a classroom full of students. I am very passionate about teaching and love working with children and seeing them grow in knowledge but teaching is not always going to be fun because there will be tough day but there will be good days. Sometimes I may have to flip around the way I teach especially if they become out of

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