Reflection 2

 

   

What is teaching? From my perspective, teaching means a process in which an individual engages in transferring or sharing knowledge with others. Being a teacher it not a simple thing, I mean to be honest teaching is also considered to be one of the toughest job. To be an educator one must really know the best teaching strategies or thoughts in order to make the teaching and learning process to be more effective and interesting. This week we were actually given an article regarding the” Three schools of thought about teaching and learning” and that article represent three schools of thought that stands for cognitive school of thought, humanistic school of thought and lastly the behavioral school of thought.

Each school of thought has its own contributions and characteristics that can be applied by the educators for their teaching and learning process. We were assigned to form a group of 6 and choose the types of thoughts in order to identify what are the characteristics hidden or found in the chosen school of thought. Eventually, each group did a job in presenting their views and understanding.

Later, we were questioned to choose one school of thought and explain why is it the best school of thought for our teaching? Well in order to answer this, I would rather pick the behavioral school of thought for my teaching, because from what I understand regarding behavioral school of thought is that it indirectly involves motivation for the learners. The behavioral school of thought is interested in finding out how external, environmental stimuli cause overt or observable learner behavior and how modifying a learner’s environment can change behavior. Basically, I believe that in order for one to learn there has to be some motivation that can help them to engage themselves in learning process as well as doing something that is beneficial for them. For instance, under behavioral school of thought there is the operant conditioning where the learning is facilitated through “reinforcement” or in other words reward or punishment in the sense where learners will be rewarded if he or she performed well or they would be punished for their undesirable performance by providing more or extra homework.

Besides that, I personally believe that by using reinforcement method in class, there are high possibilities for an educator to receive number of response from more than one student because learners tend to participate actively in order to obtain the reward. That is why I would choose the behavioral school of thought for my teaching purpose so that as a future educator I would be able to engage my learner’s participation during the learning process and also I am able to carry on with the lesson in an interesting manner.