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The Teaching Profession (EDUC. 213) Introduction to THE TEACHING PROFESSION This course deals with the 6. PHILOSOPHY - the fundamental TEACHER as a person and as a truth that serves as...

The Teaching Profession (EDUC. 213) Introduction to THE TEACHING PROFESSION This course deals with the 6. PHILOSOPHY - the fundamental TEACHER as a person and as a truth that serves as the professional within the context of national foundation for a system of teacher standards and other global teachers’ belief. standards, and philosophies. It includes an articulation of the 7. WISDOM - the ability to think and rootedness of education in the act using knowledge, philosophical and historical context, the four experience, and understanding. pillars of learning, 21st Century skills, professional ethics, core values, 8. PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION - professional rights, privileges and it is the overall vision or attitude responsibilities, and the teacher’s role in towards education and its society as an agent of change. It will make purpose. use of methods and strategies of teaching that enhance the development of 9. PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE - an learners’ life and career skills and higher- overall vision of or attitude toward order-thinking skills. life and the purpose of life. Definition of Terms What is an example of LIFE PHILOSOPHY? 1. TEACHING - the act of imparting “My philosophy on life is that you should knowledge, skills, and values. live while you are alive and you should give others that same privilege. We shouldn't 2. PROFESSION - an occupation judge people for the choices they make, requiring a great deal of because we all make bad decisions. You education and training. should do what you want with your life, as long as it makes you happy and causes no 3. TEACHING PROFESSION - it is harm to others.” the facilitation of student learning through imparting 10. PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY - A knowledge, skills, and values. personal philosophy is a set of guiding principles that we live 4. LEARNING - the act of acquiring by; a set of beliefs, values, and knowledge, skills and values. principles that guide your behavior as an individual, 5. EDUCATION - it is the process of including how you view the world acquiring knowledge, habits, and your place in it, your important interest, skills and abilities beliefs in life, and what you through training instructions. consider as right or wrong. ❖ The word “EDUCATION” ❖ EXISTENTIALISM: This came from the Latin words, philosophy focuses on the EDUCARE and EDUCERE individual 's freedom and meaning "to bring up” or responsibility to create their "to nourish", whereas the own meaning and purpose word ''educere" means to "to in life. bring forth" or "to drag out". 11. INTEGRITY - it is the hallmark of ❖ According to some learned a professional and expected people, the word from the teachers. "EDUCATION" is derived from the Latin term 12. PROFESSIONAL - it implies one "EDUCATUM" which means who conforms to technical or the act of teaching or ethical standards of a training. profession. No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main THE 8 BE-ATTITUDES OF A TEACHER by Jesus C. Palma (educator) 1. BE COMPETENT - It simply means having sufficient knowledge, skills and values. 2. BE PATIENT - Having the ability of control of feelings. 3. BE OPEN - It is having no restrictions or limits and likely to receive. 4. BE CREATIVE - It is the quality of power of being imaginative. 5. BE POSITIVE - It is being hopeful, confident and expressing agreement. 6. BE CONSISTENT - It is being firm and constant to any decision you make. 7. BE CONCERNED - It means having interest, affections, connections and involvement to the learners. 8. BE YOURSELF - Just show who you are. Avoid pretentions. No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main The Teaching Profession (EDUC. 213) Chapter 1: TEACHING AS A PROFESSION Teaching as a Profession 4. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - This is an In the words “professional ongoing professional education manner,” “gawang propesyonal,” that maintains or improves “professional fee for expert services professionals’ knowledge and rendered.” skills after they begin The word “PROFESSIONAL” professional practice. In the implies one who possesses SKILL and Philippines this is Continuing COMPETENCE/EXPERTISE. “Highly Professional Developmental professional” “unprofessional … to act that mandated by RA 10912, way” imply a CODE OF ETHICS by which a otherwise known as the CPD Act professional person abides. In short, a of 2016. professional is one who conforms to the TECHNICAL or ETHICAL STANDARDS of 5. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES - a profession. Professionals see themselves as So, two (2) elements of a part of a community of like- profession are: minded individuals who put their COMPETENCE and a professional standards above the CODE OF ETHICS. individual self-interest or their employer’s self-interest. These The other elements of a profession are: professional societies put 1. INITIAL PROFESSIONAL dedication to the PUBLIC EDUCATION – Professionals INTEREST and COMMITMENT to generally begin their professional moral and ethical values. lives by completing a university Professional societies define program in their chosen fields – certification programs, establish teacher education, engineering, accreditation standards and nursing, accountancy. This means define a code of ethics and long and arduous years of disciplinary action for violations of preparation. Take note this is just that code. the initial, which means only the beginning because a 6. CODE OF ETHICS - Each professional is expected to learn profession has a code of ethics to endlessly. ensure that its practitioners behave responsibly. The code 2. ACCREDITATION – University states what professionals should programs are approved by a do. Professionals can be ejected regulatory body like the from their professional societies or Commission on Higher Education lose their licenses to practice for (CHED) in the Philippines to VIOLATING the code of ethics. ensure that graduates from these recognized programs start The teaching profession is governed by their professional lives with the Code of Ethics for Professional competence. Teachers. VIOLATION of the Code of Ethics for professional teachers is one of the 3. LICENSING – Licensing is grounds for the revocation of the mandatory, not voluntary and is professional teacher’s Certificate of administered by a government Registration and suspension from the authority. In the Philippines, this practice of the teaching profession (Sec. 23., government authority is the RA. 7836). Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main  SUMMARY PAZ RAMOS, once Dean of the Teaching is a profession. It requires: College of Education of the University of the 1. LONG YEARS of initial Philippines, Diliman, claims: professional education “The foundations of teacher 2. The attainment of a education in the Philippines were laid by the college/university DEGREE Spanish government during the rid- recognized by a regulatory board, eighteenth century. It is said to have begun CHED on August 4, 1765, when King Charles of 3. A LICENSURE EXAMINATION Spanish issued a Royal Decree requiring called the Licensure Examination each village to have a "MAESTRO." On for Teachers (LET) November 28, 1772, another Royal 4. Continuing PROFESSIONAL Decree specified the qualifications of DEVELOPMENT and teachers. However, it was not until 1863 5. Adherence to the CODE OF that there was a specific attempt to ETHICS for Professional systematize and update the education of Teachers Filipino teachers.” Teaching as a Profession (Continuation) At the END OF SPANISH RULE, schools during the Spanish era were closed Then in 1994, R. A 7836, for a time by Aguinaldo's government. otherwise known as the PHILIPPINE So, there was no teacher preparation that TEACHERS PROFESSIONALIZATION took place. ACT OF 1994, was passed to... "promote During the AMERICAN REGIME, quality education by proper supervision American soldiers served as the first and regulation of the licensure examination teachers. In 1901, the Philippine and professionalization of the practice of the Commission enacted into LAW ACT 74 teaching profession." which created the Department of Public During the PRE-HISPANIC Instruction, laid the foundations of the PERIOD, there was no established formal public school system and offered free schooling in the country. So, there was no primary education for Filipinos. formal preparation for teachers, too. The mothers and fathers and tribal leaders There was a shortage of served as teachers at home and in the teachers. The Philippine Commission community. Philippines 600 teachers from USA. They were the THOMASITES. Due to urgent need During the SPANISH PERIOD for teachers, the Americans gave bright and by virtue of Educational Decree of young Filipino students opportunity to take 1863, free public school system was up higher education in Americas colleges established. There was one school for boys and universities financed by the Phil. and another school for girls in every Government. They were the municipality. The Spanish missionaries PENSIONADOS. served as teachers. The same Decree provided for a ACT 74 OF 1901 also provided for normal school run by the JESUITS to the establishment of Philippine Normal educate male teachers in Manila. Normal School (PNS) in Manila. The Philippine schools for women were not established Normal School formally opened in until 1875. So, it was the Spaniards who September 1901, as an institution for the started training teachers in normal schools. training of teachers. For more than two decades, PNS offered a two-year general secondary education program. In 1928, it became a junior college offering a two-year program to graduates of secondary schools. In 1949, the Philippine Normal School, renamed Philippine Normal College, offered the four-year Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main  Other four-year teacher education Teaching as a Vocation and Mission courses followed after. This means that the present four-year preparation for the Teaching: MISSION AND/OR JOB? professional teacher began as a two-year If you are doing it only because program only. Teacher preparation became you are paid for it, it's a job; If you four (4) years only in 1949 and thereafter. are doing it not only for the pay but also for service, it’s a mission. SUMMARY Teaching became a profession in If you quit because your boss or 1976 with PD. 1006. colleague criticized you, it’s a The requirement of a licensure job; If you keep on teaching out of examination for teachers that puts love, it's a mission. teaching at par with the other professions was enacted only in If you teach because it does not 1994 with the passing of RA. interfere with your other activities, 7836, otherwise known as The it's a job; If you are committed to Teachers' Professionalization teaching even if it means letting go Act. of other activities, it's a mission. ❖ There was no formal preparation If you quit because no one for teachers during the pre- praises or thanks you for what Hispanic times. you do, it's a job; If you remain teaching even though nobody ❖ The formal training of teachers recognizes your efforts, it's a began during the Spanish period mission. when men were trained as MAESTROS by The Jesuits. A It’s hard to get excited about a few years later, MAESTRAS were teaching job; It’s almost also trained. impossible not to get excited about a mission.” ❖ In 1901, a two-year preparation for teachers was given by If our concern is success, it's a Philippine Normal School. job; If our concern in teaching is success plus faithfulness in our ❖ Then the two years became four job, teaching is a mission. years since the two-year academic preparation was seen An average school is filled by INADEQUATE. teachers doing their teaching job; A great school is filled with ❖ To ensure quality teachers and teachers involved in a mission of to make teaching at par with teaching. other professions, in addition to a four-year teacher education course, passing a licensure examination was made mandatory by RA. 7836. No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main  Teaching as a vocation From the eyes of those who believe, it was God who called you to teach, just as VOCATION comes from the Latin God called Abraham, Moses, and Mary, of word "vocare" which means to call. Based the Bible. Among so many, you were called on the etymology of the word, vocation, to teach. Like you, these biblical figures did therefore, means a call. If there is a call, not also understand the events surrounding there must be a caller and someone who is their call. But in their great faith, they called. There must also be a response. answered YES. Mary said: "Behold the For Christians, the Caller is GOD handmaid of the Lord. Be it done to me Himself. For our brother and sister Muslims, according to your word.” (Of course, it is ALLAH. difficult explaining your call to teach as God's Believers in the Supreme being call for one who, in the first place, denies will look at this voiceless call to have a God's existence, for this is a matter of faith.) vertical dimension. For non-believers, the The fact that you are now in the College call is also experienced but this may view of Teacher Education signifies that you said solely along a horizontal dimension. It is YES to the call to teach. Perhaps you never like man calling another man, never a dreamt to become a teacher! But here you Superior being calling man. are now preparing to become one! Teaching must be your vocation, your calling. May Most often, when people use the this YES response remain a YES and word "VOCATION," they refer to a religious become even firmer through the years. vocation, like the mother in the Activity phase of this Lesson. Vocation includes Teaching as a mission other big callings like marriage and single blessedness. It does not only refer to a Teaching is also a mission. The religious vocation. It can also refer to a call word MISSION comes from. the Latin word to do something like to teach, to heal the "mission" which means "to send." The sick. Whatever is our calling or station in life, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines the call is always to serve. mission as "task assigned." You are sent to accomplish an assigned task. The Christians among you realize The phrase "MISSION that the Bible is full of stories of men and ACCOMPLISHED" from the soldier in the women who were called by God to do Activity phase of this lesson suggests that something not for themselves but for others. you were sent to do an assigned task, a We know of Abraham, the first mission and so if you faithfully accomplish one called by God, to become the the assigned task, you proclaim "mission father of a great nation, the accomplished." You responded to the call to nation of God’s chosen people. be a teacher and so your mission in the world We recall Moses who was called is to teach, the task entrusted to you in this while in Egypt to lead God's world. chosen people out of Egypt in order to free them from slavery. These are how VOCATION and In the New Testament, we know of MISSION are RELATED. You were called Mary who was also called by God for a purpose. i.e.to accomplish a mission to become the mother of the while on earth which is to teach. If it is your Savior, Jesus Christ. assigned task, then naturally you've got to In Islam, we are familiar with prepare yourself for it. From now on you Muhammad, the last of the cannot take your studies for granted! Your prophets to be called by Allah, to four years of pre-service preparation will spread the teachings of Allah. equip you with the knowledge, skills and ALL OF THEM RESPONDED attitude to become an effective teacher. POSITIVELY TO GOD'S CALL. However, never commit the mistake of Buddha must have also heard the culminating your mission preparation at call to abandon his royal life in the end of the four-year pre-service order to seek the answer to the education. You have embarked in a mission problem on suffering. that calls for a continuing professional development. As the saying goes "ONCE A TEACHER, FOREVER A STUDENT." No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main  Teaching and a life of meaning Flowing from your uniqueness, you are expected to contribute in the Want to give your life a meaning? betterment of this world in your own Want to live a purpose-driven life? unique way. Your unique and most significant contribution to the humanization Spend it passionately in teaching, the of life on earth is in the field for which you are most noble profession. Consider what Dr. prepared teaching. Josette T. Biyo, the first Asian teacher to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award What exactly is the mission to in an international competition, said in a teach? speech delivered before a selected group of Is it merely to teach the child the teachers, superintendents, DepEd officials fundamental skills or BASIC R'S of and consultants, to wit: reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and right conduct? Teaching may not be a lucrative Is it to help the child master the position. It cannot guarantee financial basic skills so he/she can security. It even means investing your continue acquiring higher-level personal time, energy, and resources. skills in order to become a Sometimes it means disappointments, productive member of society? heartaches, and pains. But touching the Is it to deposit facts and other hearts of people and opening the minds information into the "empty of children can give you joy and minds" of students to be contentment which money could not buy. withdrawn during quizzes and These are the moments I teach for. These tests? are the moments I live for. Or is it to "midwife" the birth of ideas latent in the minds of There may be times, when you will feel students? like giving up (many leave teaching after 3 or Is it to facilitate the maximum 5 years for varied reasons). Remember you development of his/her potential responded to the call to teach and that you not only for himself/herself but have accepted the mission to teach. May also for others? you be found faithful to your vocation and In the words of ALFRED NORTH mission till the end. WHITEHEAD, is it to help the child become "the man of culture and of expertise?" Or is it "to provide opportunities for the child's growth and to remove hampering influences" as Bertrand Russell put it? You will be made to answer this question again when you will be made to write down your philosophy of education in a later lesson. To teach is to do all of these and more! ✓ To teach is to influence every child entrusted in your care to become better and happier because life becomes more meaningful. ✓ To teach is to help the child become more human. No copyright infringement intended. This is just intended for academic purposes. This file is designed by Reiver C. Ocampo (BSEd English – 2C) DHVSU Main