Teaching Philosophies
Classical conditioning, reinforcement and punishment.
What is Behaviourism?
Putting a piece of fruit in your mouth, feeling, chewing and tasting it.
What is mindful eating?
Greeting your students, offering them snacks, and asking them where they would like to sit.
What is hospitality?
Classroom design impacts this up to 25%.
What is academic performance?
An overarching outcome for a curricular area.
Quest for meaning, freedom, and the experience of the individual.
What is Existentialism?
Being aware of ones emotions and being able to monitor them.
What is self-regulation?
Students answer a questions to a small group, or do an activity together at the beginning of the year to get to know each other.
What are ice breakers?
One of the most challenging elements to work with regarding classroom design.
What is the physical environment and furniture that you are given?
This is a statement based on the SLO that describes what students will learn and what they will do to demonstrate their understanding.
What is a behavioural objective?
Addresses all dimensions of the student and uses the Medicine Wheel as a framework.
What is Indigenous worldview?
Having a direct experience of what is happening around and in you.
What is mindfulness?
Providing students with opportunities to share their ideas and opinions in a safe space and paying attention to what they are saying.
What is deep listening?
One of the most difficult areas to create in a busy classroom especially if the space is small.
What is a quiet space?
An activating strategy that demonstrates what students already know, what to learn, and what they learned.
What is KLW?
Independent thinking, active learning, and social justice issues.
What is Social Reconstructionism?
Paying attention to inhaling and exhaling.
What is mindful breathing?
The teacher asks students how they want to work together during the year and records their ideas.
What is creating community agreements?
Things that the teacher or students might want in their classroom but due to allergies won't be permitted.
What are pets or animals?
A strategy used in which students work with a partner to share what they know about a topic.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
Liberal arts education, studying the classics, and creating independent thinkers.
What is Perennialism?
Being aware of yourself and your students; paying attention.
What is mindful teaching?
Students work together on assignments, projects, and other classroom activities.
What is cooperative or collaborative learning?
A request that many students have regarding the physical layout of the classroom.
What is the arrangement of desks or tables?
A form of assessment that helps students to develop an awareness of how they learn.
What is Assessment as Learning?