Chapter 7: Thinking about Teaching and Learning

In reading chapter 7 there were three things that I am thinking about incorporating into my teaching philosophy paper. One thing that I really liked in chapter 7 was when the book said " ...relates core values to human anatomy and gets at the heart and mind of values in action...the seven virtues attributed to respective body parts are respect (eyes and ears), integrity (mouth), compassion (heart), perseverance (stomach), cooperation (hands), initiative (feet), and positive mental attitudes (mind)." I think it was a good idea when the book said "There are defining moments in everyone's life; we tell stories about them...Stories provide us with ideas, actions, and tools for working toward goals." One thing in this chapter that I very much disagree with is when it said " Teacher-focused approaches to teaching, in which the teacher is master of the knowledge to be learned and is dispensing it to all students at a specified rate over a specified period of time, adhere to the essentialism school of philosophy..." I feel that teachers can learn as much from their students as the students can from the teacher. I do not believe in teachers being all knowing.