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1. Most effective for me as a learner...
Teaching method

Problem-based learning

Discussion of different point of view

Teacher translates to students understanding

Hands-on investigations

Student-centered with some direction from teacher

Assessments daily (or weekly) to know where students understanding is

Classroom environment

Welcoming to diversity

Safe

Respectful to others

Positive

Set goals and ways to achieve

Promotes discussions

Lots of support and materials

Rules and expectations clearly stated (students should have a say)

2. Identify the educational philosophy or philosophies that would encourage the teaching method and environment you have selected.

Humanism

Progressivism

Constructivism

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Personal Educational Philosophy Metaphor 

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Personal Educational Philosophy Metaphor 

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A teacher is a gardener. Teachers tend to the students' needs by giving them a comfortable environment to learn in, variety of materials, and allowing students to grow to be unique individuals. This is like how a gardener gives water and fertile soil to help flowers grow.

My personal educational philosophy metaphor compares to the other metaphors by using Progressivism's emphasis on flexibility with letting the students be their own individuals, the learners should develop their own questions and understandings. The variety of materials allows for individuals to personalize their learning by cooperating with other students, which is Constructivism. A gardener must focus on growing flowers just like a teacher must focus on the goodness of the individuals, in the Humanism educational philosophy.

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"Developing personal meaning through hands-on, activity based teaching and learning."-Johnson, Musial, Hall, & Gollnick

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Constructivism is a worker building a house. Learners construct their own frame of thought through hands-on activities, similar to building one brick at a time. In the end, students will have a strong, solid foundation of knowledge.

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"Humans are innately good, and are born free and become enslaved by institutions."- Johnson, Musial, Hall, & Gollnick

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Humanism is housework; it's never done! Once you learn how to be good and respectful to friends and teachers, you always are expected to be good.

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"Ideas should be tested by experimentation and learning is rooted in questions developed by learners."-Johnson, Musial, Hall, & Gollnick 

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Progressivism is a sculptor. The teacher uses tools and encourages experimentation to shape the students into being divergent thinkers. Teachers "sculpt" students into a working democracy (everyone takes part in decisions in the classroom).

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“Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.”- Auguste Comte

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Positivism is searching for hidden treasure. It may take you a long time to find what you are looking for, like observable facts and investigations based on reality. But with persistence, you will finally find the "treasure" you are searching for.

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"One's behavior is determined by the environment, not heredity."- Johnson, Musial, Hall & Gollnick

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Behaviorism is a guide dog. A guide dog is born just like any other dog, but with conditioning and positive reinforcement, the correct behavior, such as obeying a traffic light and leading a person who is blind, can be achieved.

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Essentialism is a lock and key. The students are expected to learn the same way and fit into a specific mold of society like a key is to fit into a keyhole.