EDUC.

21- THE TEACHING PROFESSION

MODULE 1

EXERCISE 1. Find out which philosophy you adhere. To what extent does each statement apply
to you? Rate yourself 4 if you agree always, 3 if you agree but not always, 2 if you agree sometimes, and
1 if you don’t agree at all.

Statement 1 2 3 4
1. There is no substitute for concrete experience in learning. /
2. The focus of education should be the ideas that are as relevant today as /
when they were first conceived.
3. Teachers must not force their students to learn their subject matter if it /
does not interest them.
4. Schools must develop students’ capacity to reason by stressing on the /
humanities.
5. Students must be encouraged to interact with one another to develop /
social virtues such as cooperation and respect.
6. Students should read and analyze the Great Books, the creative works of /
history’s finest thinkers and writers.
7. Teachers must help students expand their knowledge by helping them /
apply their previous experiences in solving new problems.
8. Our course of study should be general, not specialized; not vocational; /
humanistic, not technical.
9. There is no universal, inborn human nature. We are born and exist and /
then we ourselves freely determine our essence.
10. Human beings are shaped by their environment. /
11. Schools should stress on the teaching of basic skills. /
12. Change of environment can change a person. /
13. Curriculum should emphasize on the traditional disciplines such as math, /
natural science, history, grammar, literature.
14. Teacher cannot impose meaning; students make meaning of what they /
are taught.
15. Schools should help individuals accept themselves as unique individuals /
and accept responsibility for their thoughts, feelings and actions.
16. Learners produce knowledge based on their experience. /
17. For the learner to acquire the basic skills, he/she must go through the /
rigor and discipline of serious study.
18. The teacher and the school head must prescribe what is most important /
for the students to learn.
19. The truth shines in an atmosphere of genuine dialogue. /
20. A learner must be allowed to learn at his/her own pace. /
21. The learner is not a blank slate but brings past experiences and cultural /
factors to the learning situation.
 22. The classroom is not a place where teachers pour knowledge into empty /
minds of students.
23. The learner must be taught how to communicate his ideas and feelings. /
24. To understand the message from students, the teacher must listen not /
only to what the students are saying but also what they are not saying.
25. An individual is what he/she chooses to become not dictated by his/her /
environment.

EXERCISE 2. Synapse Strengtheners

We are interested in what is true. Our teaching methodologies are based on our quest for truth.
Teaching and learning goals are based on what we value or what we cherish as good, valuable, and true,
complete the table below. The first is done for you.

Philosophy Theory of Truth Methodology to Theory of what is Goal of Teaching-

arrive at the truth valuable/good Learning
Progressivism The universe is We must relate to Values differ from To help develop
real and is in the universe and place to place, students who can
constant change. interact with from time to time, adjust to a
others from person to changing world
intelligently, person; what is and live with
scientifically, and considered good other in harmony.
experientially. The for one may not
curriculum be good for
stresses on another.
science and
experiential
learning such as “
hands-on-mind-
on-hearts-on”
learning.
Linguistic
Philosophy
Constructivism
Essentialism
Existentialism
Perennialism
Behaviorism

EXERCISE 3. Research on the following:

1. John Dewey and progressivism

2. John Watson and behaviorism
3. William Bagley and essentialism
4. Jean Paul Sartre and Existentialism
 5. Robert Hutchins and perenialism
6. Hans Georg Gadamer and linguistic philosophy
7. Christian philosophy
8. Confucianism
9. Paolo Freire’s philosophy
10. Rousseau’s philosophy
11. Rationalism

MODULE 2- The foundational principles of morality and you

EXERCISE 1

____ 1. Is morality for humans and animals?

____ 2. Is the natural law known only by the learned?

____ 3. Did the primitive people have a sense of the natural law?

____ 4. Is an animalistic act of man moral?

____ 5. Is it right to judge a dog to be immoral if it defecates right there in your garden?

____ 6. Is the foundational moral principle sensed only by believers?

____ 7. Is the foundational moral principle very specific?

____ 8. Is the foundational moral principle the basis of more specific moral principles?

____ 9. Is the natural law literally engraved in every human heart?

____ 10. Are the five pillars of Islam reflective of the natural law?

MODULE 3: Values formation and you

EXERCISE 1

1. Do we have such thing as unchanging values in these changing times?

2. Should values be taught? Why?
3. What are the three dimensions of value and values formation? Explain each.
4. Value formation is training of the will. What does this training consist of?
5. How can you test if a value is really your value?

For research work:

1. Which Filipino values pose obstacles to your value formation? How do they block
your value formation?
 2. 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?

MODULE 4: Teaching as your Vocation, Mission and Profession

EXERCISE A.

Compare teaching as a vocation/mission/profession to something by completing

this statement: TEACHING IS LIKE….

EXERCISE B.

Give an acronym for TEACHER

T-

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A-

C-

H-

E-

R-

RESEARCH WORK: General Information on DepEd Order No. 42, s. 2017 (MEMORIZE)

MODULE 5: The 21st Century Teacher

SYNAPSE STRENGTHENERS:

By means of a graphic organizer, describe the 21 st Century teacher by completely

presenting the 21st Century skills.

MODULE 6: School and community relations