Thompson's Educational Plan

 My Educational philosophy is one that focuses on developing the intrinsic abilities necessary to survive in the world through education. Teaching things such as discipline, longsuffering, respect, diligence, persistence, and creativity through the various challenges that passing a secondary math class presents. Of the well-known philosophies that have been studied over the days, mine would closest represent essentialism. Partly because I plan to teach math, a very essentialist subject with right/wrong answers. But also because I believe that suffering through the drone and bore that is school produces talents in a child that transfer to longstanding productivity that they will  face in the future.  I plan to teach students with the typical lecture/note production to begin every year. The first day or two I will go over what the expectations are in the classroom, as well as what I perceive to be the best way to pass the class. Giving students the blueprint from the beginning should bod

Welcome, my name is Sean Thompson, an aspiring educator that is taking classes at Broward College for secondary education mathematics. Contained in this blog will be two other posts that elaborate on my educational philosophy and how I will integrate modern technology into the classroom.