DATE: DEC 04, 2017

STUDENT: Jeffrey M. Genita BSED SOCIAL STUDIES

SUBJECT: EDUC 3 (PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING 1)
CLASS ADVISER: JELINDA ROSILLO FORTICH
CLASS SCHEDULE: SAT 1:30PM - 4:30PM

MODULE 1
(2nd Semester SY 2017-2018)

1. The Nature of the Learner - The Learner is an embodied spirit. He is the

union of sentient body and a rational soul. His body experiences
sensations and feels pleasure and pain. His soul is the principle of
spiritual acts, the source of intellectual abstraction, self-reflection, and
free rational volition. Body and soul exist in mutual dependence. (Kelly,
1965)
The implications of these to the teaching-learning process
1. teaching can be made effective by relating to learning.
2. the appropriate teaching-conditions and structures may be
generated for effective learning.
3. the appropriate Taichung's may be selected for creating
learning situations.

4. the teaching strategies and tactics may be selected to achieve

the optimal
objectives of teaching.

5. the knowledge of relationship will help the teacher educator

to produce
effective teaching.

2. The learner has the power to see, hear, touch, smell, taste, perceive,
imagine, retain, recall, recognize past mental acts, conceive ideas, make
judgment, reason out, feel and choose.
3. Student Teaching Dos

 Be on time every morning

 Dress professionally

 Ask for feedback

 Go with the flow

 Act confident

 Take a lot of notes

 Show initiative

 Complete your lesson plans on time

 Put forth maximum effort in all you do

 Learn your students names quickly

 Let students figure out their own mistakes

 Greet all students and faculty with a smile

 Treat everyone with kindness and respect

 Develop healthy lifestyle habits to avoid being sick

 Arrive at school early to show you are ready to work

 Stay after school if you need time to plan and help your mentor teacher

 Volunteer for everything and anything that is going on at school

 Watch your mentor teacher and other teachers to learn valuable

information

Student Teaching Don’ts

 Try and be friends with the students, you are their teacher

 Be the first one to leave the building after the bell rings

 Be afraid to ask for help if you need it

 Call in sick or miss a class unless it is an emergency

  Gossip about other teachers

 Wear anything that you are unsure about

 Be friends with any students on your social mediasites

 Assume your students can’t find you on your social media sites

 Expect every lesson to go the way you planned it

 Expect the children to know your rules and routine by the second day

 Allow students to call you by your first name

4. Developed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983 and

subsequently refined, this theory states there are at least seven ways
(“intelligences”) that people understand and perceive the world[1][2]. These
intelligences may not be exhaustive. Gardner lists the following:

A. LINGUISTIC - The ability to use spoken or written words.

B. LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL - Inductive and deductive thinking and

reasoning abilities, logic, as well as the use of numbers and abstract pattern
recognition.

C. VISUAL-SPATIAL - The ability to mentally visualize objects and spatial

dimensions.

D. BODY-KINESTHETIC - The wisdom of the body and the ability to control

physical motion.

E. MUSICAL-RHYTHMIC - The ability to master music as well as rhythms,

tones and beats.

F. INTERPERSONAL - The ability to communicate effectively with other

people and to be able to develop relationships.

G. INTRAPERSONAL - The ability to understand one’s own emotions,

motivations, inner states of being, and self-reflection.
5. The Seven Learning Styles
 Visual (spatial):You prefer using
pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
 Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer
using sound and music.
 Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using
words, both in speech and writing.
 Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer
using your body, hands and sense of touch.
 Logical (mathematical): You prefer
using logic, reasoning and systems.
 Social (interpersonal): You prefer to
learn in groups or with other people.
 Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer
to work alone and use self-study.
These affect teaching-learning
Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize. Your preferred
styles guide the way you learn. They also change the way you internally
represent experiences, the way you recall information, and even the words you
choose.
6. The Professional Teachers must posses the ff attributes:
 Control knowledge base of teaching and learning and use of this
knowledge to guide the science and art of his teaching practice.
 Repertoire of best teaching practice and can use these to instruct
in classrooms and to work with adults in the school setting.
 Dispositions and skills to approach all aspects of his/her work in
reflective, collegial and problem-solving manner
 View of learning to teach as a lifelong process and dispositions
and skills for working towards improving his/her own teaching schools.

7. A learning environment is a learning setting consisting of the physical

environment, psychological factors and social relationships (Finnish National
Board of Education, 2004).
 The physical environment refers to the buildings, premises, furniture
and equipment used for the work. The physical environment also
covers the technical learning environment, which refers to educational
technology.
 The psychological learning environment covers the cognitive
environment, which means the information and skills to be learnt, and the
emotional environment, which includes emotions and motivation.
 The social learning environment includes the social network, structure
and system, which are influenced by all the people involved in the learning
situation and the interaction between them.
 8. The facilitative teacher is one who guides, instigates, and motivates
students to learn. As such, the teacher is the facilitator, rather than the
source of learning. In addition, the facilitative teacher understands that
learning is a complex process which involves an interaction between
the curriculum, instruction, the student. Further, the facilitative
teacher effectively implement appropriate instructional strategies and
creates a positive learning environment in the classroom.
9. Learning is a key process in human behaviour. All living is learning. If
we compare the simple, crude ways in which a child feels and behaves,
with the complex modes of adult behaviour, his skills, habits, thought,
sentiments and the like- we will know what difference learning has
made to the individual.
10. Principles of Learning
a) Law of readiness:

By readiness means the organism is ready to respond or act. This is

more essential prerequisite for learning.

This indicates that the animal or human being is motivated to learn.

This condition of readiness has two effects— satisfaction and
annoyance. When the animal is ready to act- if permitted- it gives
pleasure. If it is not permitted, it feels annoyed.
b) Law of exercise:

This law is also known as law of frequency. Frequency refers to

number of repetitions of learning.
This aspect refers to law of use and disuse, which explains that,
anything not in use will perish. So also if the response is not repeated,
its bond with stimulus gets weakened. This is also according to the
statement that ‘practice makes man perfect’.

c) Law of effect:

This law states that when a connection is accomplished by satisfying

effect- its strength is increased.
11. Educational implications - Learning by doing is a good advice, One learns
to do what one does, The amount of reinforcement necessary for learning
is relative to the students needs and abilities, The principle of readiness is
related to the learners stage of development and their previous learning,
Learning should be goal-directed and focused
12.
Principles
 Relevant Quotations for Teaching and Real Life
Situations
1. Teachers’ knowledge “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
of the subject matter is explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
essential to the great teacher inspires.”
implementation of
important teaching
Mr. Bachmann Set Me on the Right Path
tasks.
My wood-shop teacher, Mr. August J. Bachmann, was
the most influential teacher I ever had.

I had gotten into trouble in his class: Another student

had pushed me into a wood lathe, and I became
enraged and began to hit him. Mr. Bachmann stopped
the fight, but instead of sending me to the office, he
sat me down and asked a simple question: “Penna,
why are you wasting your life? Why aren’t you going
to college?”

I didn’t know anything about colleges or scholarships.

No one had ever considered that a fatherless boy from
the poorest neighborhood had a future. That day,
instead of rushing off for lunch, he stayed and
explained possible education options to me. At the
end of our talk, he sent me to see a secretary who had
a child at a state college. This was in 1962 at Emerson
High School in Union City, New Jersey.

Well, 53 years have passed, and what have I done with

the knowledge he gave me? I gained a PhD from
Fordham University when I was only 29. I taught
English and social studies and then moved up the
chain of command from teacher to principal.

I’ve sat on the board for Magnet Schools of America

and represented that organization at the United
Nations. I’ve won a number of prestigious educational
awards. But wherewould I be if a truly caring teacher
had not taken the time out of his lunch period to
speak to me? It was without question only his
confidence in me that propelled me forward.

I have repaid his kindness hundreds of times by

encouraging misguided youngsters to aim higher. If I
have saved any children, it is because of him. If I have
been a successful educator, it is because I had a great
role model in Mr. Bachmann.
—Robert Penna, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey