Progressive thinkers favor reform and civil liberties. They are interested in change and progress by thinking up new ways of doing things and being open to change. Progressive education focuses on the needs, experiences, interests, and abilities of students. Progressive teachers try to make school interesting and useful by planning lessons that provoke curiosity. Students actively learn through interaction and problem-solving real-world problems. Progressive education views learning as ongoing growth rather than just preparation for adulthood.

1. Progressive
Thinkers : Its
Role and
Importance
Reporter: RIA A. MICOR –PhD Management
Course: Advanced Philosophy in Education
Professor: DR. REYNALDO FRANCISCO JR.

2. People who are progressive favor reform
and civil liberties: this is the opposite of
conservative, and means something close
to liberal. Progressive people are interested
in change and progress. You're a progressive
thinker if you like to think up new ways of doing
things and you're open to change.

3. Progressivists believe that individuality, progress, and change are
fundamental to one's education. Believing that people learn best from
what they consider most relevant to their lives, progressivists center
their curricula on the needs, experiences, interests, and abilities of
students.
Progressivist teachers try making school interesting and useful by planning
lessons that provoke curiosity. In a progressivist school, students are actively
learning. The students interact with one another and develop social qualities
such as cooperation and tolerance for different points of view. In addition,
students solve problems in the classroom similar to those they will encounter
in their everyday lives.
Progressivists believe that education should be a process of ongoing
growth, not just a preparation for becoming an adult. An obvious example
of progressivism would be our class. We are in groups a lot and we actively
learn through discussion. We talk about how what we read can be
incorporated into our future teaching careers.

4. He wanted students to learn through action
and being involved in the processes that will
get to the end product.
He wanted the students to work on hands-on
projects so learning would take place, rather
than memorization. In a regular classroom
students just memorize what they need to
know and it goes away after the test.

5. In Dewey’s mind, the students would have to
exercise their brain by problem solving and thinking
critically, resulting in learning (even though the
students may not even know it!). This allows the
individual's brain to develop, so as the individual grows
learning becomes easier!
After attending a school Dewey would have
set up, a child would be ready for the real world and
a lot of the everyday setbacks that an individual
would experience, such as losing a button, changing a
tire, making lunch, or balancing a checkbook.
School would be a lot of hands-on learning,
and the progression of education would not end!

6. Today most K–12 teachers still believe in content,
competition, evaluation, and discipline.
Simultaneously, they believe in relevance, projects,
group learning, and choice.
The Common Core Standards, approved by
most states, stress rigor but at the same time
emphasize inquiry and understanding. John
Dewey would be moderately pleased with a
pragmatic nation that combines traditional
education with the insights of progressives.

7. One of the benefits of progressive education is
that teachers recognize and honor the creativity and
passions of individual students. Educators do not
simply teach students information and expect them to
memorize it and get perfect scores on tests.
Progressivism in education today helps students
master a couple of important skills needed once
they pursue their careers. Students learn to
cooperate with teams, think critically before doing
things, and use creative means to resolve problems.
Kids also need to learn to contribute independently.
Progressivists believe that individuality, progress,
and change are fundamental to one's education.
Believing that people learn best from what they
consider most relevant to their lives, progressivists
center their curricula on the needs, experiences,
interests, and abilities of students.

8. I believe that education
is the fundamental
method of social
progress and
reform.” —John Dewey