Principles of Process Education

The following principles form the base from which the philosophy of Process Education is built:

1. Each person's learning processes can always be improved.

2. There is no measurable limit to one’s potential for learning; one’s potential is not constrained by perceived ability.

3. At times, everyone requires help with learning, but one’s goal is to become a capable, self-sufficient learner.

4. Methodologies, which serve to model processes, are extremely helpful for learning to perform and use processes more effectively.

5. Educators must assess their students regularly; not only for purposes of feedback, but also to model the assessment process and help students learn to self-assess better.

6. An empowered learner is able to effectively use learning processes and self-assess to improve future learning and performance.

7. A quality learning environment involves facilitators who focus on improving students’ learning skills in specific, defined areas through timely, appropriate, and constructive interventions.

8. Implementation of Process Education involves utilizing a set of ideas, processes, and tools, which improve through ongoing research and application with continuous quality assessment.

9. An educational system can be continually improved by:

   1. improving the quality of instruction,

   2. improving the management of the educational system with better performance criteria and measures,

   3. improving the quality of curricula, and

   4. empowering learners to continually improve their performance in the context of the defined system.