EPISODE 26Bryan M. Nozaleda

Marjohn AdduruEdna Luz AddunJennifer Luyun

IntroductionTarget

Survey Questions

Results

Observations

Reflections

Affirmed ConceptsFuture Applications

INTRODUCTION

What do you firmly believe about schools and education? This episode will clarify

your belief or philosophy about teaching and education.

Perhaps you have already decided that you would become a teacher. Your belief or

philosophy of teaching will explain your actions as a future teacher . The

foundations of all that you do in school and in teaching is usually based on a

strong belief called philosophy of education.

Target Clear understanding of

my philosophy of teaching and education Identify teacher’s

leanings on the different educational philosophies

1. The student learning should be centered around basic subjects such as reading, writing, history, math and science.

2. The schools subject should focus on the great thinkers of the past. 3. Many students learn best by engaging in real-world activities

rather than reading. 4. The students should be permitted to determine their own

curriculum. 5. Subject matter is taught effectively when it is broken down into

small part. 6. The school subjects should be determined by information that is

essential for all students to know. 7. Schools, above all, should develop students’ abilities to think

deeply, analytically, and creatively; than develop their social skills or provide them with a useful body of knowledge about the ever-changing world.

8. Teaching should prepare student to analyzing and solving the types of problems they will face outside the classroom.

9. Reality is determined by each individual’s perceptions. There is no objective and universal reality.

10. People are shape much more by their environment than by their genetic dispositions or the exercise of their free will.

11. Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next until they have a real and mastered certain material.

12. An effective education is not aimed at the immediate needs of the student or society.

13. The curriculum of a student should be built around the personal experiences and needs of students.

14. Students who do not want to study much should not be required to do so.

15. Programmed learning is an effective methods of teaching information.

16. Academic rigor is an essential component of education. 17. All students regardless of ability, should study more or less

the same curriculum. 18. Art classes should focus primarily on individual expression

and creativity . 19. Effective learning is unstructured and informal . 20. Students learn best through the reinforcement.

21. Effective schools assign a substantial amount of homework. 22. Education should focus on the discussion of timeless questions such as

quotation “what is beauty?” or “what is truth?” 23. Since students learn effectively through social interaction, school should plan

for the substantial social interactions in their curricula. 24. The purpose of school is to helps students understand themselves and find the

meaning of their existence. 25. Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know. 26. Countries must become more competitive economically with other countries

hence schools must bolster their academic requirements to facilitate such competition.

27. Students must be taught to appropriate learning primarily for each own sake, because it will help them in their careers.

28. Schools must place more emphasis on teaching about the concerns minorities and woman.

29. Each person has free will to develop as he or she sees fit. 30. Reward students well for learning and they will remember and be able to apply

what they learned, even if do not understand why the information is worth living.

31. Philippine schools should attempt to instill traditional Filipino values in students.

32. Teacher-guided discovery of profound truths is a key method of teaching students.

33. Students should be active participants in the learning process. 34.There are no external standards of beauty. Beauty is what an

individual decides it to be. 35. We can place a lot of faith in our schools and teachers to determine

which student behaviors are acceptable and which are not. 36. Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of basic facts

regarding the books, people and events that have shaped the Filipino heritage.

37. Philosophy is ultimately at least as practical a subject to study as is computer science.

38. Teacher must stress for students the relevance of what they are learning for their lives outside, as well as inside, the classroom.

39. It is more important for a student to develop a positive self-concepts than to learn specific concepts.

40. Learning is more effective when students are given frequent tests to determine what they have learned.

The data showed that Mrs. Jovi Decemrada made the highest total rating on the questions pertaining to essentialism making her the most essentialist among all of us. Meanwhile, it was her again who took the perennialist’s spot. We got a tie on who is more progressivist, namely Marjohn Adduru and Mrs. Pilar Tumanguil. Bryan Nozaleda made it to the Existentialist Spot while Mrs. Jovi Decemrada once again got the highest rating on the questions on behaviorism. On the other hand, the least inclined to the educational philosophies are: Jennifer Luyun; Essentialism, Bryan Nozaleda; Perennialism, Edna Luz Addun;Progressivism, Existentialism, and Bryan Nozaleda; Behaviorism.

Among the six of you, who is more inclined to be an essentialist, perrenialist, progressivist, existentialist or behaviorist?

Visit a teacher in a school and observe what school/classroom activities reflect his/her philosophy of education while she is teaching. Identify and describe teacher’s action or behavior and match with the identified educational philosophy .

It can be said that the result of the questionnaire has no significant difference, therefore leading us to a conclusion that teacher two is a mixture of the philosophies and it shows to her teaching strategies. She used a jigsaw strategy when she introduced the properties of the different radioactive particles. Her intention of grouping her students in small groups manifests a progressivist approach. Practical applications were also given to the students at the end of the lesson. The regrouping of the students showed an existentialist behavior. It recognizes the unique ability of the learners as they share to their mother group what they have learned in the smaller group. Teacher two have made also steps to show the behaviorist in her. Before the class proper, she accomplished first her normal routines: Praying, Attendance monitoring ,and of course, disciplining while doing the group activity. We have also observed the perrenialist side of the teacher. The lessons learned were from the books alone and new concepts were not presented. (progressivism was not there) Moreover, the essentialist side was shown in the choice of content of teacher two. The properties of radioactive particles are fundamental to the understanding radioactive reactions. She could have proceeded to the reactions because high school nuclear physics rarely uses the properties.

My Reflections Based on your concrete experience

and the action of the teacher you have observed, how important is your philosophy of education to your future career as a teacher? How would your experiences and observations contribute to your becoming a teacher?

Here we go again However, with this experience, it changed my perspective as I

identify my philosophy. Basically our educational philosophies stand as our foundations or directions but have we ever come to a realization that our own philosophy in itself is us? Our philosophy is who we are, what we are and how we have become through time.

Knowing our philosophy is knowing ourselves. In the teaching and learning process, it is important to identify our strengths and weaknesses and the kind of philosophy we have will give us an idea on that.

Moreover, it will reflect also the kind of instruction we will soon have and of course that includes, our choice on instructional materials, strategies and techniques, and evaluation procedures. It is like our hands that grow as we age and follow a series of development as it explores a diverse possibilities. Therefore, our philosophies serve as our building blocks, our blueprint, or our genetic makeup whatever names you call it, that perhaps undergoes self engineering.

Affirmed Concepts1: WE DON’T HAVE DISTINCT PHILOSOPHIES.

2: SCIENCE TEACHERS ARE MORE INCLINED TO BE PROGRESSIVISTS AND HAVE LESSER TENDENCIES TO BECOME PERENNIALISTS.

3: OUR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES REFLECTS WHO WE ARE.

Future Applications In Teaching and Learning Identify first what's our philosophy. Use it as our guide in choosing the content of our

instruction. Base our choices of methodologies to it. Understand what our philosophy means to us at the

same time realize that we are different to others and to our learners.

Teach in a way suited to the learners. Give them evaluation that really assess their abilities

both mentally and physically. Provide the learners a learning environment that truly

boost their potential.  

In addressing diversity of Learners Our knowledge on different educational philosophies will address

the diversity of learners. The findings we had in our observations and experiences will suggest that we possess a sort of character that has multi-philosophies. Thus, this character will give us the ability to mimic with our learners as they show their unique styles in learning. Well, every teacher has a dominating philosophy but to have an adaptive capacity is to have an edge over the others. The fact that our philosophies give us a repertoire of strategies and methods will make our teaching easier because we are provided with many options to choose from. Choices that will make our students learn better and have a clearer understanding of everything. Use our philosophies to the fullest. Understand what it means to us. If we do that, we will also understand our learners and all their differences.

In creating a conducive learning environment

Giving them an idea of who you are and what do you expect of them will make a firm environment. If students know what is expected of them, they are then capable of helping create a positive classroom environment.