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Report - You As The Teacher in The Society
Report - You As The Teacher in The Society
Person in Society
Chapter One
“Teachers…are the most
responsible and important
member of society because
their professional efforts
affect the fate of the earth”
– Helen Caldicott
Lesson 1 – Your Philosophical
Heritage
LEARNING OUTCOME:
WHY TEACH?
WHAT TO TEACH?
WHY TEACH?
WHAT TO TEACH?
Progressivist are identified with need based and relevant
curriculum. This is a curriculum that “responds to students’
needs and that relates to students’ personal lives and
experience. The subject that are given emphasis in
progressivist are the “natural and social sciences.
Progressivists accept the impermanence of life and the
inevitability of change. For the progressivists, everything else
changes. Change is the only thing that does not change.
Hence, progressivist teachers are more concerned with
teaching the learners the skills to cope with change.
..Progressivism
HOW TO TEACH?
Progressivist teachers employ experiential
methods. They believe that one learns by doing.
One experiential teaching method is the problem
solving method. Other “hands on minds on hearts
on” methodology that progressivist teachers use
are field trips which students interact with nature
or society.
PROGRESSIVISM
PERENNIALISM
WHY TEACH?
Memorization
is the best
They discipline
your mind through With strict
reading and rules
discussion
EXISTENTIALISM
WHY TEACH?
It is to help the students understand and appreciate
themselves as unique individuals who accept
complete responsibility for their thoughts, feelings,
and actions. The existentialist role is to help
students define their own essence by exposing them
to various paths they take in life and by creating an
environment in which they freely choose their own
preferred way
WHAT TO TEACH?
WHY TEACH?
Behaviorist schools are concerned with the
modification and shaping of students’ behavior
by providing for a favorable environment, since
they believe that they are a product of their
environment. They are after students who
exhibit desirable behavior in society.
…Behaviorism
WHAT TO TEACH?
Because behaviorists look at “ people and other
animals as complex combinations of matter that
act only in response to internally or externally
generated physical stimuli, behaviorist teachers
teach students to respond favorably to various
stimuli in the environment.
..Behaviorism
HOW TO TEACH?
What to Teach?
How to Teach?
What to Teach?
The learners are taught how to learn. They are taught learning processes
and skills such as searching, critiquing and evaluating information,
relating these pieces of information, reflecting on the same, making
meaning out of them, drawing insights, posing questions, researching
and constructing new knowledge out of these bits of information learned.
How to Teach?