THE TEACHING PROFESSION

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Task 1 (PRELIM)

Test Your Understanding of the Philosophies

A. Directions: Answer each with a Yes or No. Support your answer with a statement.

 Essentialism
1. Do essentialists aim to teach students to reconstruct society?

2. Is the model citizen of the essentialist the citizen who contributes to the re-building of
society?

3. Do the essentialist teachers give up teaching the basics if the students are not interested?

4. Do the essentialist teachers frown on long academic calendar and core requirements?

 Progressivism
1. Do the progressivist teachers look at education as a preparation for life?

2. Are the students’ interests and needs considered in a progressivists’ curriculum?

3. Does the progressivist curriculum focus mainly on facts and concepts?

4. Do the progressivist teachers strive to stimulate in the classroom life in the outside
world?

 Perennialism

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1. Are the perennialist teachers concerned with the students’ mastery of the fundamental
skills?

2. Do the perennialist teachers see the wisdom of ancient, medieval and modern times?

3. Is the perennialist curriculum geared towards specialization?

4. Do the perennialist teachers sacrifice subject matter for the sake of student’s interests?

 Existentialism
1. Is the existentialist teacher after students becoming specialists in order to contribute to
society?

2. Is the existentialist concerned with the education of the whole person?

3. Is the course of study imposed on students in the existentialist classroom?

4. Does the existentialist teacher make heavy use of the individualized approach?

 Behaviorism
1. Are behaviorists concerned with the modification of students’behavior?

2. Do behaviorist teachers spend their time teaching their students on how respond
favorably to various environmental stimuli?

3. So behaviorist teachers believe they have control over some variables that affect
learning?

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4. Do behaviorist teachers believe that students are a product of their environment?
 Linguistic Philosophy
1. Do linguistic philosophers promote the study of language?

2. Is the communication that linguistic philosophers encourage limited to verbal language

only?

3. Do linguistic philosophers prefer the teacher who dominates discussion to save time to a
teacher who encourages dialogue?

4. Is the curriculum of the linguistic philosophers open to the learning of as many

languages, like Mother Tongue, as possible?

 Constructivism
1. Does the constructivist agree to a teaching methodology of “telling”?

2. Do constructivists believe that students can construct knowledge?

3. Do constructivists approve of teaching learners the skill to learn?

4. Do constructivists believe that meaning can be imposed?

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B. Directions: Answer the following.

With which philosophy do you associate the following quotations?

1. “Education is life not a preparation for life”.-Dewey

2. “Man is nothing else but what makes of himself…” Sartre

3. “Gripping and enduring interests frequently grow out initial learning efforts that are not
appealing or attractive/”

4. “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well informed, and my own specified world to bring
them up in and I’ll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to become any type
of specialist I might select---doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief; and yes, even beggar-
man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and
race of his ancestors.” Watson

5. “Existence precedes essence.” Sartre

6. “Life is what you make it.” William Thackeray

7. “Listening in dialogue is listening more to meaning than to words…In true listening, we

reach behind the words, see through them, to find the person who is being revealed
Listening is a search to find the treasure of the true person as revealed verbally and
nonverbally…”-John Powell

8. “When a relationship is working, the act of communicating seems to flow relatively

effortlessly…”-Chip Rose-

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C. Directions: Answer the following.

Upon which philosophy/ies is each program/practice anchored?

1. Back-to-the Basics movement

2. Conduct of National Achievement Test to test acquisition of elementary/secondary

learning competencies

3. Use of the Great Books

4. Use of rewards and incentives

5. Use of simulation and problem-solving method

6. Learners learning at their own pace

7. Mastery of the 3 r’s – reading, writing and ‘rithmetic

8. The traditional approach to education

9. Subject matter- centered teaching

10. Student-centered teaching

11. Authoritarian approach to teaching

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12. Non-authoritarian approach to teaching

13. Making meaning of what is taught

14. Understanding message through verbal, non-verbal and para-verbal means

15. Asking learners to draw meaning from what they are taught

D. Directions: Research on the following philosophies. Those marked with asterisk (*) are
a must. Give the gist of each philosophy. Cite those thoughts with which you agree and
also those with which you disagree.

1. Christian Philosophy

2. Rationalism

3. Empiricism

4. Pragmatism

5. Reconstructionism

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6. Confucianism

7. Hindu philosophy

8. Buddhist philosophy

9. Paolo Freire’s philosophy

10. Socrates’s philosophy

11. Plato’s philosophy

12. Rousseau’s philosophy

13. Stoic Philosophy

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14. Epicureanism

15. Philosophical Analysis

16. Phenomenology

17. Logical positivism

18. Any other philosophy of your interest or assigned by your teacher

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