philosophy

​  Intrustruction at The Charter High School for Culinary Arts is based on Essentialism teaching philosophies. The purpose of today’s school systems is to students in reaching their ultimate potential. Of course it is necessary to teach the essential material, because we still live in a world where intelligence and education are based on standardized testing. Approaching a classroom with an essentialist philosophy is great with a classroom filled with gifted learners, ones who can grasp the wealth of information that has been dictated to them. My philosophy of education is more or less an eclectic philosophy, in which there is a balance of different philosophies. As far as essentialism goes, I agree with the fact that character development is a large issue.The progressive education approach I feel is the most effective one in the classroom. Unlike essentialism, the Progressive philosophy is in favor of the scientific method and teaching students to solve problems relative to their social and natural environment.In a math classroom, I believe there must be some extent of teacher dictation, along the lines of the essentialist approach.