This presentation shows the results of interviews with teachers about the future of education and how their education philosophy was shaped

1. Learning
Team A
Saul Alarcon
Jim Kupsh
Thomas Apodaca Smith
Laina Tattersfield
Peter Tuiasosopo
MTE/501 (MACK1KBC0)
Week 3
Education Philosophy and the
Future of Education

2. Rhonda Rhodes
Experience: 37 years (high school, community college and university)
• We are teaching just the same as we did in 1950. The world has changed and we need to look around the world and stop thinking that we know everything about everything.
• In the case of elementary school, we should return to the basics, reading, writing, arithmetic. We need to stop looking for the easy answer and look at what has worked in the past.
• Teachers need to have much more training if methods keep changing.
• The demographics has changed and there are many students who are English learners and many students who do not have basic needs fulfilled.
• Information could be taught by experts in the field with the use of technology.
• We need to find ways to reduce the cost of education.
• Things are changing very fast and much of what students learn today will be obsolete in a few years.
WHERE IS EDUCATION HEADING IN THE FUTURE?
Lefty Olguin
Experience: 58 years (Teacher/Professor/Administrator)
• The future of education is seen as the driving force behind the success of an individual, and not a community
Dr. Joyce Kupsh
Experience: 55 years (high school, community college and university)
• Education is always changing, and teachers must keep up or even lead the pack in making these changes.
• Technology is playing a major role in education.
• What worked yesterday will not work today as new generations are exposed to new experiences and challenges
Mel Waterhouse (English)
Experience: 27 years (high school)
• Education has become increasingly utilitarian, what with the focus on STEM, all of the money and energy being given to science.
• They are getting rid of English teachers, English curriculum, English classes, in all levels of education.
• Schools are not teaching abstract thinking
Dr. Sarah J. McClimon (Music)
Experience: More than 20 years (private teacher, high school)
• We try to even out the playing field through education
• Our education is being designed with the goal of fitting across the board of the socioeconomic diversity of our schools.
Emily Swaney Goldenberg
Experience: 14 years (Kindergarten)
• There is a big emphasis on testing and math, reading, and writing and less on creativity and the arts
• We want to be like Asian countries and compete globally.
• There is a disconnect between cognitive development of children and expectations, especially for kids who have not had early exposure to education.
• Education goes in a circle and we eventually will go back to ideas we abandoned from the past and we consider wrong right now.

3. SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
• Technology is playing a major role in
education
• There is a big emphasis on STEM and
less on language, creativity and arts
• Changes in demographics and the
socioeconomic diversity in schools is a
major force behind many changes in
education
• There is a big emphasis on global
competition and individualism
• Education changes constantly and
teachers have to be constantly trained
to keep up with those changes
• What is being taught today may
become obsolete very quickly
• Some teachers see the use of
technology as a negative aspect of the
current education model while others
see it as a way to bring innovation and
positive changes
• Some teachers see the emphasis on
STEM as positive while other teachers
perceive this trend as a step back
• Some teachers think that future
changes in education are unknown and
uncertain while others think that
eventually changes will bring us back
to what worked in the past
WHERE IS EDUCATION HEADING IN THE FUTURE?

4. Rhonda Rhodes
• “I was brought up on a working cattle ranch. We learned the basics, and everything had a practical application. Everything related to something in real life. “
HOW YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES SHAPED YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION?
Lefty Olguin
• “Teaching a college course called Becoming a Master Student helped me understand the importance of creating lessons that would fit all students of all
learning levels and needs.”
Dr. Joyce Kupsh
• “No matter what age, a student is a person to be respected.”
• “A teacher needs to determine what works for each student and make adjustments accordingly.”
• “In addition to a positive learning environment, a teacher must adjust to the challenge of change. What worked yesterday might not work today.”
• “Students learn better by doing than just listening and even reading.”
Mel Waterhouse
• “I took plenty of schooling, and I tried to remember the best and worst teachers I’ve had, and I started with that.”
• “The classrooms I’ve been in have been the real shapers of my ideals.”
Dr. Sarah J. McClimon (Music)
• “Both my parents are educators and they have strong values that were passed on.”
• “My experience in Japan where students are divided in an academic or a job track has a lot of influence. In the USA, education is localized,
detached, and students track themselves.”
Emily Swaney Goldenberg
• “I needed a lot of ownership. What I remembered is hands-on experiments, field trips. That is why I think learning should be more play based.”

5. SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
• Teachers referred to people that
influenced their philosophy of
education
• Their philosophy of education has
been shaped by their teaching
experience
• Experiences that had practical
application or were hands-on had a big
influence in their philosophy of
education
• For some teachers the major influence
was a relative while for others was a
teacher
• Only one teacher had international
experience and was able to compare
the US system with other country.
HOW YOUR LIFE EXPERIENCES SHAPED YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION?

6. Teachers showed many similarities in their ideas about education trends, but they differ in how they perceive
the direction education is going. They agree that changes are happening very fast and that teachers require
constant training to keep up with those changes.
Even though their perception of education trends differ, all teachers value students as individual, and
understand that teachers must determine what works for each student and be able to adjust their teaching
accordingly.
One important lesson for our team is that the interviewees’ philosophy of education was greatly influenced not
only by their teachers or mentors, but also by their experience as teachers over the years. So it is very likely
that, depending on our teaching experiences, our philosophy of education will change over the years.
CONCLUSION