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Lesson 2: Formulating Your Philosophy of Education
Lesson 2: Formulating Your Philosophy of Education
Lesson 2: Formulating Your Philosophy of Education
Activity 1: Analyze the given example in your small groups, then answer the
following questions:
3. Who, according to the Grade school teacher’s philosophy is the good and
educated person?
A good and educated person consistently practicing good values to serve as a
model to every child. S/He strengthen the value formation of every child through
“hands-on-minds-on-hearts-on” experiences inside and outside the classroom.
6. Do her concepts of the learner and the educated person match with how
he/she will go about his/her task of facilitating every child’s full development?
Yes, because s/he is consistent on how s/he will go about his/her task of
facilitating every child’s full development in accordance with his/ her belief or
concepts about a learner.
7. You notice that the teacher’s thought on the learner, values and method of
teaching begin with the phrase “I believe”. Will it make a difference if the
Grade school teacher wrote his/her philosophy of education in paragraph from
using the third person pronoun?
Yes, because if she use third person pronoun, there wouldn’t be greater impact
to the reader or a more personal relationship to the reader.
Activity 2
1. Formulate your personal philosophy of education. Do it well for this will form
part of your teaching portfolio which you will bring along with you when you
apply for a teaching job.
2. From which philosophies that you have studied and researched did you draw
inspiration as you formulated your own philosophy of education?
From my own experiences and experiences of others and from the good
teachers I encountered and shared their insights of being an educator.
I will be like a teacher that just teaches and doesn’t care, touch and empower life.
A teacher with no purpose and direction at all.
No, because I saw teachers who treat a child in the way what I believe. So if they
can be a good teacher, why couldn’t I?
No, this philosophy will be enhancing. It will branch out to a better philosophy.
Yes 3. Did the primitive people have a sense of the natural law?
Yes 8. Is the foundational moral principle the basics of more specific moral principles?
Yes 9. Is the foundational moral principle so called because it is the basis of all moral
principles?
Yes 10. Are the Ten Commandments for Christians more specific moral principles of the
foundational moral principle?
Yes 12. Are The Five Pillars of Islam reflective of the natural law?
Yes 13. Is the Buddhist Eightfold Path in accordance with the natural law?
Yes 14. Are the Golden Rule for Christians basically the same with Kung-fu-tsu’s
Reciprocity rule?
Synapse Strengthens
A. Direction: Answer the following in a sentence or two.
- The quotes tell that the natural law is written in every heart of a person.
They are unchanging amidst changing times. This is true to all and no one
knows when it was installed to us. This natural law will never be taken to
us.
B. Journal Entity
1. “Do good; avoid evil” is the foundational moral principle. List at least 5 good
things that you have to do as a teacher and 5 evil things you have to avoid doing.
2. The Golden rule for Christians is: “Do to others what you would like others do
to you.” Give a concrete application of it as you relate it to a learner, to a fellow
teacher, parents, community, and to your superiors.
I will show love to anyone as much as I can. In every little thing I can do to show
love, I won’t hesitate. By simply smiling amidst negative thoughts, I would like to
display. Being positive when everything goes wrong.
D. By means of a song, a poem or an acrostic (on the word MORALITY), show the
importance of morality.
4. What are the three dimensions of value and value formation? Explain each.
Cognitive - concerned with the rational understanding of the value, ho it should
be lived and why it should be taught.
Affective - it is where the development of feeling for the value take place
Behavioral – the outward manifestation of the value
5. Value formation is training of the intellect and the will. What does this training
consist of?
Training of the intellect consist of training in conception, judging and reasoning.
Training of the will is strengthening the will to desire and act upon that which is
valued.
6. What is the effect of good habit (virtue) and bad habit (vice) on the will?
Virtue strengthens the will while vice weakens it.
Synapse Strengtheners
Holy Values
Spiritual Values
Vital Values
Pleasure Values
Pleasure values- the pleasant against the unpleasant; the agreeable against
disagreeable
eg. sensual feelings, experience against pleasure or pain
Vital values- Values pertaining to the well-being either of the individual or of the
community
eg. health, vitality, capability, excellence
Spiritual Values- values independent of the whole sphere of the body and of the
environment, grasped in spiritual acts of preferring, loving and hating.
eg. aesthetic values, values of right and wrong, values of pure knowledge.
Based on the above conversation, is the alcoholic (or any alcoholic for that
matter) happy for being one? What lessons can you learn from the life of an
alcoholic or of a gambler?
No, the alcoholic is not happy for being one. Negative deeds are not the solution
for another negative problem.
Reflect if this thought on man as sold by the media in a very subtle manner has in
a way influenced your value orientation.
Yes at some point, especially when I was young. But I realized that those things
are just pleasing others and we must reminded that we are here on earth to
please God and not others.
Basically it is for personal hygiene, but if it is more than that to the extent of being
so conscious about yourself and obsess of it, something’s wrong.
For Research
Which Filipino values pose obstacles to your value formation? How do they
block your value formation?
“Utang na loob” – because of it I’m feel obliged to do a favor that I’m
hesitant of doing
“Filipino Hospitality” - I used to welcome visitors I hate to have because of
their unpleasant purpose
Are there times when the will refuses to act on what the intellect presents
as good? How does a person feel?
Yes, it feels confusing and unfulfilled.
The atheist denies God’s existence. Will he lack the values of the Holy, the
highest level of value according to Scheler? How will this affect his/ her
way of life?
Yes, because the highest level pertains to a supreme being and the atheist
doesn’t believe in a supreme being. He will not be guilty of wrong deeds because
he/she doesn’t believe on a supreme being. At the end, he will realize what he
did and strike by his conscience.
Journal Entry
1. Read the Following and in the context of value formation, write down your
response/ action plan to each as a proof that you accept continuing personal
value formation.
Take care of your thoughts, they become your actions; take care of your
actions, they become your habit; take care of your habits, they become
your character, take care of your character, it becomes your destiny!
- What you think is who you are that leads you to your destiny.
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world buy loses his
“soul”?
- This world is not our home. Invest our treasures in heaven and not on hearth.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of
value.” –Albert Einstein
- A man of success with no values is nothing.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye”. –The Little Prince by Antoine Exupery
- What you see is not what you need. “Focused in what you cannot see!”
Synapse Strengthens
A. An exercise on Metaphor/Simile --- Compare teaching as
avocation/mission/profession to something by completing this statement:
TEACHING IS LIKE…
C. Research on:
The other elements of profession. Does the teaching profession fulfill all the
elements?
The meaning of Eichmann as used in the Letter to Teacher found in this
lesson.
The logos of professional teachers, the Philippine Association for Teacher
Education, the Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education.
Display them in class. Give their symbolism. Is there anything common
among the logos?