EDU101PhilosophyPaper

You will write a Philosophy of Education paper that reflects your personal philosophy of education as of right now.

Hopefully, your philosophy will be an ever-growing, ever-changing, and ever-improving work in progress. By capturing your thoughts on paper now, you will have a benchmark to use to chart your growth.

EDU 101 and SED 125 are coordinated classes. You will write your philosophy twice this semester--once at the very beginning of the semester, reflecting where you were before any formal education classes at UMF, and once at the very end of the semester. Hopefully, you will have learned new information that will contribute to your philosophy and you will have experienced learning and growth that will impact your beliefs about education.

Both papers will be well-written using The Bedford Handbook as your guide for grammar, punctuation, and style. We will use APA style for citations, cover page style, headers, margins, and font.

After writing your paper in its final version, grade it yourself using the rubric. Write the paragraph numbers in the blanks indicating where you included the information related to that question. I will grade your paper using the same rubric.


 * For those writing this paper in the second quarter**, feel free to start with the paper you wrote in SED 125 and improve it, add to it, make changes. Or you can start from scratch. The two papers should NOT be the same. You should now be able to support your philosophy and your opinions with facts and information that you've learned in the textbooks and in the two courses. You can use your textbooks and any other resources as sources for your paper. There should be citations in this paper.

Please hand in a copy of your philosophy paper from SED 125 when you hand in your paper for this class so that I may compare the two. You can hand in the graded copy from your other class or print out a clean copy. Either one is fine. Make sure there is a cover page for the SED 125 version that clearly states that it is the paper you wrote for SED 125.

You will hand in a stapled packet with your self-evaluation on the top, your philosophy paper for EDU 101 beneath that, and your philosophy paper from SED 125 on the bottom.