PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING 1 & 2

Activity # 1
General Instructions: Answer the following questions. Write your answer in this document and send it via
email (lourencecapa@gmail.com). Indicate your complete name and course in the
email. Deadline will be tomorrow at exactly 4:00 P.M.

I. Instructions: Answer each with a YES or NO. If your answer is NO, explain your answer in a
sentence. Write your explanation on blank provided after each question.

 Essentialism
___________ 1. Do essentialists aim to teach students to reconstruct society?
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___________ 2. Is the model citizen of the essentialist the citizen who contributes to the re
building of society?
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___________ 3. Do the essentialist teachers give up teaching the basics if the students are not
interested?
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___________ 4. Do the essentialist teachers frown a long academic calendar and core
requirements?
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 Progressivism
___________ 1. Do the progressivist teachers look at education as a preparation for adult life?
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___________ 2. Are the students’ interests and needs considered in a progressivist curriculum?
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___________ 3. Does the progressivist curriculum focus mainly on the facts and concepts?
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___________ 4. Do the progressivist teachers strive to stimulate in the classroom life in the outside
world?
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 Perennialism
___________ 1. Are the perennialist teachers concerned with the students’ mastery of the
fundamental skills?
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___________ 2. Do the perennialist teachers see the wisdom of ancient, medieval and modern
times?
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 ____________ 3. Is the perennialist curriculum geared towards specialization?
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____________ 4. Do the perennialist teachers sacrifice subject matter for the sake of students’
interests?
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 Existentialism
____________ 1. Is the existentialist teacher after students becoming specialists in order to
contribute to the society?
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____________ 2. Is the existentialist concerned with the education of the whole person?
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____________ 3. Is the course of study imposed on students in the existentialist classroom?
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____________ 4. Does the existentialist teacher make heavy use of the individualized approach?
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 Behaviorism
___________ 1. Are behaviorists concerned with the modification of students’ behavior?
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___________ 2. Do behaviorist teachers spend their time teaching their students on how to
respond favorably to various environmental stimuli?
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___________ 3. Do 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?
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 Linguistic Philosophy
___________ 1. Do linguistic philosophers promote the study of language?
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___________ 2. Is the communication that linguistic philosophers encourage limited to verbal
language only?
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___________ 3. Do linguistic philosophers prefer the teacher who dominates discussion to save
time to a teacher who encourages dialogue?
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 ___________ 4. Is the curriculum of the linguistic philosopher open to the learning of as many
languages, like Mother Tongue, as possible?
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 Constructivism
___________ 1. Does the constructivist agree to a teaching methodology of “telling”?
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___________ 2. Do constructivists believe that students can construct knowledge?
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___________ 3. Do constructivists approve of teaching learners the skill to learn?
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___________ 4. Do constructivists believe that meaning can be imposed?
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