My teaching philosophy

The ultimate goal of education should not be just getting higher distinction in all the subjects. Despite with best results from secondary, higher secondary and university education, if a student fails to have competency in real life situations, (s)he cannot be considered a successful person.

Education has a great impact on both cognitive and social behavior. It shapes person’s mentality, making more mature. So education plays a vital role in making the person more competent and qualified. Thus our education system must be shaped on such a way that it creates rational thinkers who are able to reason in logical arguments and who are able to apply what they have learnt in real life situations.

Exam oriented education, which mainly focuses on getting a good result in exams may create individuals who lack life skills and job skills. So initially, most of graduates who had completed their studies successfully often fail to perform well in their jobs. This gap must be filled within the education system. Students must be taught to apply what they have learnt.

Another important component of my teaching philosophy is increasing student involvement in the lessons. We must have a balance between student centered and teacher centered approaches of teaching, rather than just the classical teacher centered approach. In addition student interest must be maintained with different instructional variety to foster student participation in class.

CONTRIBUTION OF PAVLOV

Classical Conditioning

Pavlov and his co-workers investigated digestive process of dog. It was found that when unconditioned stimulus (meat powder) was presented to the dog, it in return provoked the conditioned response of salivating. When presented with a neutral stimulus – the bell ring, there was no effect on its salivation. Later Pavlov paired the neutral stimuli with unconditioned stimuli. Every time a bell was rung before presenting food to the dog. Finally once a neutral stimulus became a conditional stimulus and acquired all the affects which unconditioned stimuli possessed. Ringing of the bell alone was enough to provoked salivation.

We all are subjected for variety of classical conditioning in our everyday life. Though, some of us may not realize it. Think about signal of ambulance. What would you do when you hear fire alarm at your apartment? All these are examples of classical conditioning. Also some classical conditionings are in use at our class rooms. Ringing of bell to indicate the end of periods, and how students jump out of their seats by receiving this stimulus is one of the best example I can think of.