A Teaching Philosophy for Effective Teaching and Learning in Schools

Abstract

This is a theoretical paper that attempts to highlight the importance of an educator’s “personal teaching philosophy”. Whereas there are myriad reasons for an educator’s teaching philosophy, the need to explore this paper is informed by the complex nature our educational institutions are getting into in terms of diversity, students’ awareness of their rights, ethnicity and negative ethnicity, information technology, moral decadence, capitalism and commodification of the educational enterprise, international competitiveness in both teaching and learning among others. Additionally, an initial library and internet search by the author on scholarly literature and journal articles on the topic revealed nothing on the topic, other than online definitions.