Educ 203 CHAPTER 7 Lesson 2

THE TEACHING PROFESSION
CHAPTER 7
PHILOSOPHIES OF EDUCATION
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CHAPTER 7
LESSON 2 - FORMULATING MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
LEARNING OUTCOME
 Formulate my philosophy of education.
ACTIVITY
Here is a sample of a philosophy of education.

Study the example of Teacher Macrina’s Philosophy of Education given below.
My Philosophy of Education as a Grade School Teacher
I believed that every child

 Has a natural interest in learning and is capable of learning.
 Is an embodied spirit.
 Can be influenced but not totally by his/her environment.
 Is unique, so comparing a child to other children has no basis.
 Does not have an empty mind, rather is full of ideas and it is my task to draw out these
ideas.
I believed that there are unchanging values in changing times and these must be passed on to
every child by my modeling, value inculcation and value integration in my lessons.
I believe that my task as a teacher is to facilitate the development of every child to the optimum
and to the maximum by:
 Reaching out to all children without bias and prejudice towards the “least” of the children.
 Making every child feel good and confident about himself/herself experiences of success
in the classroom.
 Helping every child master the basic skills of reading, communicating in oral and written
form, arithmetic and computer skills.
 Teaching my subject matter with mastery so that every child will use his/her basic skills
to continue acquiring knowledge, skills and values for him/her to go beyond basic literacy
and basic numeracy.
 Inculcating or integrating the unchanging values of respect, honesty, love and care for
others regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, appearance and economic status in my
lessons.
 Consistently practicing these values to serve as model for every child.
 Strengthening the value formation of every child through “hands-on-minds-on-hearts-on”
experiences inside and outside the classroom.
 Providing every child activities meant to develop the body, the mind and the spirit.
 Teaching not only what to learn but more important how to learn.
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ANALYSIS
Instruction: Analyze the given example, then answer the following questions:
1. Which of the philosophies studied in Lesson 1 are reflected in the given philosophy?
2. What are Teacher Macrina’s concept/s of the Learner?
3. Who, according to Teacher Macrina’s philosophy, is the good and educated person?
4. What is the teacher’s concept on values?
5. What does Teacher Macrina believe to be her primary task?
6. Do her concepts of the learner and the educated person match with how she will go about
her task of facilitating every child’s full development?
7. You notice that the Teacher Macrina’s thought on the learner, values and method of
teaching begin with the phrase “I believe”. Will it make a difference if she writes her
philosophy of education in paragraph form using the third person pronoun?
8. Why is one’s philosophy of education said to be one’s “window” to the world or “compass”
in life?
ABSTRACTION
Your Philosophy of Education is your concept of the learner, concept of what must be
taught and how this must be taught. These thoughts are the bases of your actions and decisions
when you prepare to teach and when you teach.
Teacher Macrina subscribes to the Christian Philosophy because she believes that the
learner is an embodied spirit and she wants to provide every child with activities are meant to
develop the learners body, mind, and spirit. The fact that she is mindful of the development of the
mind makes her a rationalist. Because she is after the holistic development of the learner - body,
mind and spirit, she is also humanist in thinking and in practice.
She also believes in the behaviorist philosophy because she accepts that the learner can
be influenced by the environment. However, she does not totally adhere to the behaviorist
philosophy because she does not agree that the learner can be totally influenced by his
environment. Teacher Macrina is constructivist in philosophy because she does not agree that the
learner has an empty mind. Rather, she believes that the child is full of ideas and it is her task to
draw out these ideas.
Teacher Macrina is also essentialist in orientation. She is convinced that her primary task
is the child’s mastery of the basic skills of reading, communicating in oral and written form,
arithmetic and computer skills. She believes that mastery of these basic skills prepares the child
to go beyond the basics. Her behaviorist philosophy makes her work hard for every child to
experience success, which surely contributes to a favorable learning environment.
Teacher Macrina is also essentialist and perennialist in thinking. She believes in
unchanging values of respect, honesty, love, and care for others, regardless of gender, race,
ethnicity, nationality, appearance and economic status and therefore, inculcates them in her
lessons.
She is also cognitivist in thinking and practice because like Bruner, she believes that
modeling these values is the most effective way to teach these values.
She wants to make use of hands-on-minds-on-hearts-on experiences inside and outside

the classroom. This makes her a progressivist. Teacher Macrina applies the progressivist’s
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dictum, learning by doing in the whole world is a classroom. She’s also progressivist in the sense
that she teaches learners not only subject matter, but also how to learn.
This is how one’s philosophy of education governs one’s practice as a teacher.
APPLICATION
With Teacher Macrina’s philosophy of education as an example, formulate your own

philosophy of education.
CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

Instruction: Write only the letter of the correct answer.
1. Does Teacher Macrina have a clear philosophy on how she should teach values?
a. Yes b. Somewhat c. No d. Not at all
2. Which teaching methodology statement should I formulate if I cling to the progressivist

philosophy of education?
a. I will make students learn by doing; less student talk, more student talk.
b. I will make students learn by listening; less student talk, more teacher talk.
c. Teaching-learning takes place only in the classroom.
d. Teaching-learning is best with the full use of the chalkboard.
3. I am a progressivist. For teaching in the affective domain, which will form part of my
philosophy of education?
a. I will inculcate values in my lessons.
b. I will engage my classes in values clarification.
c. I will not do any sort of value education considering pluralistic values.
d. I will impose objective values to my students.
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THE TEACHING PROFESSION

 Formulate my philosophy of education.

Here is a sample of a philosophy of education.

My Philosophy of Education as a Grade School Teacher

I believed that every child

She wants to make use of hands-on-minds-on-hearts-on experiences inside and outside

With Teacher Macrina’s philosophy of education as an example, formulate your own

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

2. Which teaching methodology statement should I formulate if I cling to the progressivist

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