My resource teacher and I have the same educational philosophy and that is social reconstructionism. This can be seen in her teaching style for she includes social issues and incorporate societal responsibility in her lessons for example in her speech class she made the students talk about government issues particularly charter change to teach pronunciation. She even used an article about poverty as an example to teach compounding words.
In her classroom, the students are always given the opportunity to voice out their opinions and thoughts about certain issues and democracy inside the classroom is also being practiced. Cleanliness is also one aspect that is being emphasized in class, she doesn't start the class until the chairs are arranged and there are no trashes littered inside the classroom or else she'll demerit points or will make the class copy the entire lecture for the day.
I admire her for incorporating social issues in her lessons and that is a big effort on her part especially if the lesson is all about grammar but I don't agree with using grades as punishment because for me grades should be about the result of an assessment and should be done for the purpose of knowing the weaknesses and strengths of a child and the basis for improvement but I guess grades for my cooperating teacher also serves as a form of discipline for proper behavior.
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