Learning Activities for Chapter 5

1. Explain this statement: “As a glocal teacher, act locally but think globally.”
Glocal teacher is someone who thinks and behaves with worldwide experiences both locally and
globally, but teaches in the cultures, localities, cities, provinces and regions where he or she is
located. They are a global teacher who is qualified and prepared with adequate skills, proper
attitude and universal values to teach students at home or abroad, but who at any time and any
place in the world is equipped with both time tested and modern technology in education. They
are educators who are world minded and who are able to think globally and act locally during
teaching and learning contexts. They are preparing today’s youth around the word to function in
one world environment.

2. Make a matrix using the example below

The Professional Educational What Grade Levels can How are they recruited
Teacher in Qualifications they Teach
1. ASEAN BACHELOR’S Pre- school - College
DEGREE Level
2. CHINA must have diploma; Primary- College -under Teacher
need to pass Education Bureau of
examination on China
psychology and -recruiting through
Mandarin Language professional recruiting
platforms or utilizing a
professional
employment
organization (PEO).
3. JAPAN meets the formal Pre- school- College Prefectural Board of
academic requirements Education
through successful
completion of
prescribed courses of
study in a post
secondary institution
4. U.S.A. Bachelor’ Degree Pre- school USA Employment
-complete a district or K-12 and its partners
state approved College/ University worldwide will
teacher’s preparation invest time in
program determining which
-pass required exams in candidates are
school district or state qualified for
-submit a state teaching acceptance into its
license application J-1 Cultural
-Doctorate has become Exchange Program
mandatory for teaching for Teachers
at College level.
3. Enrichment Activity
Write an Essay on the topic: How does a Filipino teacher compare with a teacher in the ASEAN
and beyond?
Like other teachers in foreign countries, Filipino teachers are enthusiastic about teaching
as well. They have remarkable values, abilities, talents and experience. Teachers play a major role
in children's lives, especially during their formative years. They are key in molding learners to
become responsible citizens of the community.

When we need help, they are by our side, disciplining us when we go astray, offering
moral encouragement and inspiring us to do more and to learn more. They teach us not to give up
when we are about to surrender.

4. Make a comparison of the global teaching-learning landscape before and in the 21 st Century

Parameters Before 21st Century

1. Learners ● Individual learners
● More focused on
subject-specific
content
2. Teachers ● Lecture all day long
● Prevent change
● Be the sage on the
stage
● Teach to the test
● Be able to chew gum
all day and tell my
students they can't
● Retire next year and
it just doesn't matter
anymore  ●
● Teach one year 25
times
● Wanted a computer
just to report grades
● administrator
● Cover rather than
uncover material and
use chalk
● Quit learning
● Cooperative Learners
● more focused on
the skills needed to solve
problems
● Collaborative work rather
than individual work
● Edit, remix, and share
media with students
● Learn from students
● Expect change
● Create my own personal
learning network
● Encourage appropriate
online interaction
Create positive learning
environments

3. Learning Environment ● characterized by rote ● innovative and modern

memorization in a ways of teaching and
teacher-centered learning
 classroom, and the
“chalk and talk“
lecture method that
predominates
instruction.
4. Ways of Learning ● teacher-centered, ● learner-centered,
discipline based integrated, and
curriculum inter-disciplinary
● mastery of itemized curriculum
information or factual ● focus on acquisition of
knowledge learning tools
● emphasis on subject ● focus on intellectual
knowledge abilities
5. Learning Content ● technical and ● balance of general vs.
vocational learning vocational components
content is relegated of education and general
to the background, vs. specialized training
while academic ● demand-driven: learning
subjects are at the content based on what
forefront students can actually
● supply-driven: learn
learning content ● balance of scientific-
based on what is technological and
available social-humanistic cultural
● heavy emphasis content of education
given on core
subjects (math,
science, language)
compared with
literature, arts, and
social sciences