Many Teaching Styles

There are many different teaching styles to use in a classroom. Teaching styles are usually based off of teaching philosophies. Some teaching philosophies include essentialism, perenialism, progressivism, existentialism, and behaviorism. Essentialism is much like our former President, George W. Bush, was pushing for this teaching philosophy. This classroom would be very disciplined and very basic in terms of the subjects taught. Perenialism is all about students being taught principles and being told to make up their own reasoning through experiments. In progressivism, the idea of the three ways of learning is included; audio, visual, and kinesthetic learners. This idea is based around that each person learns information differently. Existentialism is the most interesting of them all. This classroom is very laid back and students pick more of what they are interested in learning and learn through that way. This type of philosophy deals with student as an individual and wants them to be creative. The last one is behaviorism, the idea that you can condition students to do different things. The idea is called programming them. All of these are very interesting philiosophies. (citation)American education has been leaning towards essentialism when I feel like students need to have a broad and more well-rounded education. They should do creative things, and experiments, and every student should learn in a way that is best for them. Americans definitely need to consider what kind of philosophy they should put in their education system, one that will help students flourish.