Student

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Learning Tasks
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Articulating My Personal Philosophy of Teaching

Name of Student Teacher: ______________________ Date Submitted: _________

Year and Section: _____________________________ Course: ________________

Desired Learning Objectives

 Articulate a personal philosophy of teaching that is learner-centered.

 Demonstrate behaviours that uphold the dignity of teaching as a profession by
exhibiting qualities such as caring attitude, respect and integrity
 Seek opportunities to establish professional links with colleagues
 Demonstrate motivation to realize professional development goals based on the
Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers

Essential Questions

 What is your personal philosophy of teaching?

 What behaviours must be exhibited by professional teachers?
 How do we establish professional links with colleagues?
 How can you concretize the professional development goals based on the Philippine
Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST)

Understandings
A personal philosophy is a statement of beliefs and attitudes relative to purpose of
education and role of teaching.
According to Stephen Brookfield in his book The Skillful Teacher (1990) the
development of a teaching philosophy can be used for several purposes.
 Personal Purpose- A clean picture of why you are doing what you are doing that you can
call up at points of crisis. This is critical to your personal sanity and morals.
 Pedagogical Picture- Knowing clearly what kind of dent/niche you want to make in the
world that you must continually ask yourself. The fundamental evaluative questions of
all: “What effect am I having on students and their learning?”

TIPS OD WRITING Personal Philosophy of Teaching

There is no required content or set format
 It is 1-2 pages in length
 Use present tense
 Avoid technical terms
 Include teaching strategies and methods to help people “sell” in the classroom
 Make it memorable and unique
 Own your philosophy

Things to Remember When Writing a Philosophy Statement

 Reasons why you want to become a teacher
 Duties and responsibilities of an effective teacher
 Beliefs about how student learn
 Approaches methods and strategies which are needed in effective teaching
  Views of different stakeholders in teaching and learning
 Theories or philosophies of teaching and learning that are similar to your ideas
 Reasons why teaching is the most important profession
 Challenges/obstacles of teaching which you want to overcome

My Performance Task
Performance Task 1: Observe your Cooperating Teacher for several weeks and months. How
does she/he exhibits the qualities of caring, respect and integrity?
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As a teaching intern, how did you exhibit the qualities of caring, respect and integrity?
Cite specific situations or instances.
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Performance Task 2:
A. Cite specific instances on how you establish professional links with your colleagues.
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B. Interview your CT, ask him/her how she/he establishes professional links with colleagues.
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Performance Task 3:
A) Read the Philippine Professional Standards (PPST) for Beginning Teachers. Explain how you
will realize the professional development goals using these standards.
My Assessment Tasks
Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which is a personal statement of your objectives and ideas of teaching?
A. Philosophy of learning C. Philosophy of teaching
B. Philosophy of education D. Philosophy of instruction
2. Why is it important for you as a teacher to have a philosophy of education?
I. To guide you in your career
II. To make you reflective in the field of education
III. To identify beliefs in the teaching profession
A. I only B. II only C. III only D. I, II and III
3. From where does one’s philosophy of statement evolve?
A. The learning outcome
B. The facilities/resources
C. The different educational curriculum
D. The different theories of teaching and learning
4. Which PPST domain include five strands that emphasizes on the management of the teaching-
learning processes, resources and professional collaboration among teacher?
A. Diversity of learners
B. Learning environment
C. Curriculum and planning
D. Content, knowledge and pedagogy
5. Which are seven domains and thirty seven (37) indicators that embody the standards to
ensure effective measures of professional learning, competent practice and effective
management?
A. National Competency Based Teachers Standards (NCBTS)
B. Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST)\
C. Competency Standards for Professionals (CSP)
D. Standards for Pre-Service Teachers (SPST)
My Learning Artifact(s)
Write your own philosophy of teaching.

Let’s Write a Journal

Journal Entry #18: Articulating My Personal Philosophy of Teaching. Your entry
should contain your understanding and reflection on the given concept.
 My Scoring Rubrics

INDICATORS Meets Approaching Meet Does Not Meet

Standards of Standard of Acceptable Acceptable
Excellence Excellence Standard Standard

4 3 2 1
CRITERIA

Performance  Has all the  Has some  Has minimal  No aspects of

Tasks aspects of aspects of work aspects of work meets
work that that exceed work that level of
exceed level level of meet level of expectations
of expectation expectation  Has errors,
expectation.  Demonstrates  With some omissions and
 Shows solid errors and misconceptions
exemplary performance MASTERY is
performance and not
understanding thorough

Assessment With 5 correct With 4 correct With 3 correct With less than 3
Tasks answers answers answers correct answers

Learning The pieces/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of

Artifacts evidence of evidence of learning evidence of evidence of learning
learning is/are is/are aligned with learning is/are is/are NOT aligned
aligned with SOME of the learning aligned with with the learning
learning outcome ONE of the outcomes.
outcomes. learning
outcomes
Creativity and The learning The learning tasks The learning The learning tasks
Resourcefulness tasks are done are done creatively tasks are done are poorly done and
very creatively and resourcefully. quite creatively need improvement
and and
resourcefully resourcefully

Submission of The assigned The assigned The assigned The assigned

Requirements learning tasks learning tasks are learning tasks learning tasks are
are submitted on submitted a day after are submitted 2 submitted 3 days or
or before the the deadline days after the more after the
deadline. deadline deadline.

MY TOTAL SCORE

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Signature of Practicum Supervisor