Real World Thinking Philosophy

As a teacher the most important thing that I want students to learn is the ability to connect concepts learned in class to real life situations. In this day and age I see an America full of citizens that in my opinion lack the ability to critically think about the problems in this world. My job though, is to generate a new kind of breed that will help students achieve better results that in turn will lead to better decision making. Some of the strategies I have in mind is about looking at issues across the world such as war in the Middle East. Since, my area well focus on this, I plan to put students in different shoes, meaning they will play different races across the world and this in turn will help students to really reflect on the what …show more content…
Critical thinking is one asset that really can set someone above everyone else and it is with these types of understanding that we can achieve what most schools want. That is a student who is able to think rationally, has the ability to understand the problem from both angles and not only that, but use reason instead of emotion to bare judgement. Videos for me played a huge role in helping me be able to really think for the first time in my life. Although, this might not have much to do with the topic at hand, but former presidential runner Bernie Sanders really showed me that I was wrong all along about the people in the Middle East. He showed me that I never thought rationally nor had the ability to put my emotions aside, but only knew how to read and write. I did not how to think and that is what struck me the most, because nobody ever taught me how to think critically. It was in this moment that I promised myself that I would work hard to help others think critically and really understand the problems in this world from the inside and out. I hope show videos and quotes from famous people, who really tend to question our own ideology. I do not believe it hard to connect the dots, what is hard is being able to set aside our emotion that holds us back from really thinking critically. My career has a long way to go and I will always work on striving to perfect my craft. I love learning and being able to solve the problems at hand, so for me to just turn a blind eye on an issue, will be very unlikely. We so many resources at hand that we can use to help us develop. There really is no excuse to say there aren’t enough resources to help us learn and understand. We live in a library, well I consider this world a library because everywhere you go, you will always learn something you didn’t