Educational Philosophy

Freedom and structure are often treated as opposites in education, as if every gain in one must cost something in

Authority and autonomy sit at the center of one of the oldest questions in education: how can teachers guide students

Teacher centered instruction is an approach in which the teacher leads learning directly, deciding what is taught, explaining it clearly,

Student centered learning is an approach to teaching that places the learner’s thinking, activity and needs at the heart of

The cooperative learning ethos is the conviction that students learn best when their success is genuinely tied to the success

Collaborative learning values are the beliefs that lead teachers to treat learning as something people build together rather than something

Self directed education philosophy holds that young people learn most deeply when they decide what, when and how to learn,

Personalized learning values are the beliefs that justify shaping instruction around individual students rather than around an imagined average learner.

A competency based orientation asks schools to award progress and credit when students demonstrate defined abilities, rather than when they

Treating mastery as educational aim means judging schooling by what students can truly do with knowledge, not by how many