FS 1 Ep. 14,15
FS 1 Ep. 14,15
FS 1 14
The Teacher as a PERON and as a
PROFESSIONAL
professional?
This Episode will provide you a chance to observe teachers in their workplace at
school in order to answer the questions asked.
“My Teacher, My Hero” was a banner during the World Teacher’s Day celebration in
the Philippines in the years past. Are Filipino teachers, real heroes? What do you think?
Why?
First, the teacher must have innate qualities or attributes that are exemplary and are
fitted to be teachers. These are natural tendencies of a person. Here are some of the
qualities and attributes that distinctly characterize a teacher.
Going to teacher training institutions and earning a teaching degree mean developing
a professional teacher like you. You can only become a professional teacher if you can
earn a degree to teach in either elementary level or high school level. You should also
earn license to teach by passing a licensure examination for teacher. While studying I
college you are learning the ropes of becoming a professional teacher. You learn the
content courses including the major or specialization and the professional courses
including the pedagogy courses. Your professional courses include experiential learning
courses that include Field Study 1, Field Study 2 and teaching Internship. These are
important in your preparation to become professional teachers.
So what are the professional competencies that every teacher should have? You will
find these in the matrix that follow.
Professional Competencies of Filipino Teachers
Now you are ready to identify if the enumerated characteristics are found among the
teachers you are going to observe.
There are two observation activities in this Episode. Activity 1 will identify the
Personal Characteristics of the Teachers and Activity 2 will identify the Professional
Competencies of the Teacher.
Procedure:
a. Dignified Observe
b. Healthy Observe
c. Spiritual Observe
Interview
d. Knowledgeable Observe
e. Humble Observe
Interview
f. Determined Observe
Interview
g. Cooperative Observe
Interview
Activity 2 will focus on the Professional Competencies of the Teacher. You may change
your sample Teacher in Activity 1 with another teacher or you can still observe the
same teacher. In case you will not change your teacher to be observed the same teacher
will be your sample for both Activity 1 and Activity 2. Aside from direct observation, you
will also do a Survey in Activity 2.
Did you learn from your observation of the teacher? Now let us analyze the
information that you have gathered.
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2. Which of these qualities do you have? Do you think you can fit as a good teacher
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Good teachers are role models, whether in school, at home or in the community. From
the teachers that you had from elementary to college, did the personal qualities that
they possess, help you learn better as a student?
Identify one personal characteristic of your model teacher that has made a great
impact in your life as a learner. Reflect and describe how this quality influenced you.
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Activity 14.2 Is the Teacher a Professional Teacher?
Procedure:
1. Secure a permit to observe and conduct a survey.
2. Request the following information from the teacher:
a. Name
b. LET License No
c. Evidence of Professional Growth (Masters or Doctorate, Seminars attended,
etc.)
3. Request a co-teacher or the head (only one of the 2) to answer the
checklist/rating scale about your sample teacher.
4. Answer the same survey instrument yourself.
5. Compare the answer of the co-teacher or the head with your answer on the
survey. In what items do you have the same answer?
6. Show the results in a summary table.
Dear Ma’am/Sir:
I am a future teacher and I would like to know the characteristics of a professional
teacher. I will be very glad if you could answer the survey form about co-teacher
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I will keep in confidence your identity, however, please allow me to use the data in
my lesson.
BEED/BSEd Student
Name of the Teacher: ____________________________________________________________________________
PRC License No. _________________________________________ Grade Level Taught: _________________
Answer the following statements based on your OBSERVATION of the teacher. Check
Yes or No or Doubtful.
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Name and Signture og the Teacher Informat (Peer)
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Name and Signature of the Supervisor Informat (Head)
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Your Name and Signature (Pre Service Student)
Did you learn from your observation and interview on teacher’s professional
competences?
2. Did your answers to the survey form coincide with the answers of the co-teacher
or head of the teacher you observed?
Why?
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2. If all the teachers teaching today process the professional characteristics and
competencies as the teacher/teachers observed then learners will be
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Show here the artifacts of this Episode.
1. Short narrative about the teacher with description of the personal qualities and
professional characteristics that you have observed. You may request a picture
from the teacher.
MY Teacher, My Hero
I. Is a licensed teacher
II. Has personal qualities appropriate to be a teacher
III. Possesses the characteristics given in A, B, C.
5. The saying goes, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” How is this directly
related to teachers?
FS 1 15
Towards Teacher Quality:
Developing a Global Teacher of
the 21st Century
Moving towards teacher equality? Wanted! A Global Teacher of the 21st Century!
In 2013, a Global Status Index was determined by Varkey Gems Foundation and
revealed significant findings. There were 21 countries surveyed which represented the
major continents of the world. In most countries that participated, it was found out that
like the Philippines, teaching is the most sought profession. It was comparable to being
a social worker, librarians, nursing and even doctors. Majority of the parents asked,
answered that they encourage their children to become teachers. To them, teaching is
one of the most respected and trusted professions.
However, with the change in global landscape, the 21st century teachers must
have the competence to address the new learning environment, the new learning
contents, the processes of learning and how these are facilitated and the new types of
learners.
Hence, we need the new type of teachers a global 21st century Filipino teacher.
(Global Teacher Status Index p.123 Teaching Profession)
A survey of the ASEAN countries and beyond tends to show that there are three
major responsibilities of teachers. These are (1) Actual Teaching. (2) Management of
Learning and (3) Administrative Work.
While the number of actual teaching hours per day varies all over the world, in our
country, teaching in the public schools requires six hours of actual teaching, that
includes administrative work such as management of learning per day. The two hours of
the working day are allotted to administrative work such as scoring and recording
learner’s outputs, making reports, filling forms, preparing for the next day’s activity and
performing other administrative tasks. The previous episode on the teacher reminded
us of the qualities and competencies mentioned earlier. Teachers should be multi-
literate, multi-cultural, multi-talented, innovative and creative. The future Filipino
teachers like you shall act logically but think globally.
“Teach local, reach global” means that the teacher brings diverse experiences in the
classroom with the various skills to live and work as citizens of a global society. What
teachers do in the local communities impacts the larger community. As global citizens,
the work begins, where the teachers are, thus a “global” teacher.
Quality teachers are characterized by different attributes and skills needed in the
21st century education. Partnership 21 identified (1) Global awareness (2) Financial,
economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, and (4) Civic and health literacy which
require:
More specifically, quality teachers are competent teachers who can demonstrate
exemplary mastery of knowledge, skills, values and dispositions relative to the
following characteristics.
Majority of the current classrooms provide learning spaces that can hardly prepare
the 21st century learners for the development of the 21st century skills.\
Since the 21st century classroom is learner-centered the teacher acts as a facilitator
of learning. Students no longer study each subject in isolation, but they work on
interdisciplinary projects that cover several subject areas. Learning is no longer for
memorizing and recalling information but for learning how to learn. The classroom
designs should respond to 21st century learning. More so, quality teachers should be
changing their roles from teaching in isolation to co-teaching, team teaching and
collaboration with students and peers.
A new and creative design for classrooms by the teachers is needed as well as the
management of learning. These are two teaching qualities needed to address the new
roles of teachers.
How should a new classroom be? Here are some suggestions on the six elements of a
new classroom:
With the classroom structure, a quality teacher should be able to manage learning
under a very conducive learning environment. Teacher should use effective classroom
management strategies that will ensure productive learning.
Organized
Orderly
Focused
Attentive
On task
Are learning
This will take much of your skill, experience and patience. The two important factors
that may affect learning management are the use of technology and the diversity of
learners.
Activity 15.1 A Day in the School Life of a Quality Teacher
Observation 1: This activity will require you to stay in school for one school day. Special
arrangements by your faculty should be made for this purpose.
Procedure
1.Secure permit to observe a quality teacher in the school for one, whole class
day.
2. Shadow the teacher with three major responsibilities.
Actual Teaching
Management of Learning
Administrative Work
Note: Observe and record observations on the following aspects as key guide to
observations.
Refer to the results of your observations to answer the questions that follow.
1. Which of the three responsibilities shows the majority of the indicators being
practiced?
A. Actual Teaching?
B. Management of Learning?
C. Administrative Work?
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3. Which of the major responsibilities does this teacher find difficult to comply
with? What are the reasons?
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4. From your perspective, would you consider this teacher as a quality teacher? Why?
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Now that you have spent one school day observing this teacher, it would be good for
you to reflect on all your observations by answering reflective questions below.
1. Are you inspired to become a teacher after your observation? If yes, why? If
No, why not?
2. When have you become a teacher in the future, how else would you do
better as a professional teacher?
3. What are some of the concerns that you foresee in the future as a quality
teacher? Do you think you will be ready to address these? Give at least 2
concerns.
4. In what aspects of the teacher’s day would you like to congratulate the
teacher you observed? Can you show your appreciation to this teacher by
sending a Thank you card? (Include this in your artifact)
Activity 15.2
The Creation and Management of the New Learning Environment as a Skill of 21st
Century Quality Teacher
This activity will allow you to develop your sense of creativity and imagination in
designing a classroom for the 21st century and determining how to manage learning
in this classroom.
Procedure:
Based on the task that you have made; what challenges await you as a future teacher?
How will you manage learning in the future classroom? How will you prepare yourself
to respond to 21st teaching-learning in the future classroom? How will you prepare
yourself to respond to 21st teaching-learning and become a global teacher?
Make a short paragraph on how you will manage teaching-learning in the 21st
century classroom.
These are the artifacts that you need to file in this Episode.
1. Activity 15.1 Report on the Observations including evidence that go with it.
Activity 15.1 Narrative on the Day in the School Life of a Quality Teacher
2.Activity 15.2 Drawing of the present classroom and a Drawing of your Vision of the
Classroom for the 21st century.
3. Activity 15.2 Narrativeon how you will manage teaching-learning in the 21st
century classroom.
Based on the Episodes you went through on Glocal Teacher of the 21st Century,
answer the questions that follow.
1. Anywhere in the world, when you embrace teaching as a profession, you should
be prepared to do _________.
I. actual teaching
II. manage learners and learning
III.do administrative work.
2. Quality teacher is equipped with personal qualities and attributes that go beyond
ordinary, that is why in the Philippines he/she is described as _____________________.
5. The new type of teachers in the 21st century is those who are, I. well-travelled,
global citizens, unmindful of their roots II. multi-literate, innovative and creative,
multi-cultural III. masters of the discipline, excellent in English, multi-talented