ACTIVITY 4

NAME: MA. CRISTINA CARMELA MONTERO COURSE: BESED TLE 4B

INSTRUCTOR: MR. RECRES SEVILLANO SUBJECT: FS 6
WHAT IS YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION?
(Based on Sadker & Sadker, 2nd Ed. Bilbao, 2014)
What is your philosophy of education? To find out, read each of the following
statements about the nature of education. Decide whether you agree or disagree with
each statement. Use the following numbers to express your response:

Legend:
4 Agree strongly 2 Disagre
3 Agree 1 Disagree strongly

__3__1. The student learning should be centered around 3Rs only.

__3__2. The school subjects should focus on the great thinkers of the past.

__3__3. Many students learn best by engaging in real-world activities than reading.

__3__4. The students should be permitted to determine their own curriculum.

__3__5. Subjects matter is taught effectively when it is broken down into small parts.

__3__6. The school subjects should include only essential for all students to know.

__4__7. Schools above all, should develop students ‘ abilities to think deeply,
analytical and creatively than social skill or acquire body of knowledge.

__3__8. Teaching should prepare students for analyzing and solving the types of
problems they will face outside the classroom.

__3__9. Reality is determined by each individual’s perceptions. There is no objective

universal reality.

__2__10. People are shaped much more by the exercise of their free will.
__3__11.Students should not be promoted to the next grade until they have read and
masterd certain key material.

__3__12. An effective education is not aimed at the immediate needs of the students
or society.

__3__13. The curriculum of a school should be built around the personal experinces
and needs of the students

__4__14. Students who do not want to study much should not be required to do so.

__3__15. Programmed learning is an effective method of teaching information.

__4__16.Academic rigor is an essential component of education.

__3__17.All students, regardless of ability, should study more or less the same
curriculum.

__3__18.Art classess should focus primarily on individual expression and creativity.

__2__19.Effective learning is unstructured and informal.

__3__20.Students learn best through reinforcement.

__2__21.Effective schools assign a substantial amount of homework.

__3__22.Education should focus on timeless questions such as “What is beauty?” or

What is truth?

__3__23.Since students learn effectively through social interacton, schools should plan
for more social gathering in their curricula.

__3__24.The purpose of school is to help students understand themselves and find the
meaning of there existence.

__3__25.Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know.

__3__26.Countries must become more competitive economically, hence schools must

bolster their academic requirements for more competition.

__3__27.Students must be taught to appreciate learning primarily for its own sake,
rather than to help them into their careers.
__3__28.Schools must plan more emphasis on teachig about the concerns of
minorities and women.

__3__29.Each person has free will to develop as he or she sees fit.

__2__30.Reward students well for learning so they will remember and be able to apply
what they learned, even if they were not able to understand why information is worth
knowing.

__3__31. Philippine schools should attempt to instill traditional Filipino values in

students.

__3__32. Teacher-guided discovery of profound truths is a key method of teaching

students.

__4__33. Students should be active participants in the learning process.

__4__34. There are no external standards of beauty. Beauty is what an individual

decides it to be.

__3__35. We can place a lot of faith in our schools and teachers to determine which
student behaviors are acceptable and which are not.

__3__36. Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of basic facts regarding the
books, people and events.

__3__37. Philosophy is ultimately a practical subject to study like computer science.

__3__38. Teachers must stress students the revelance of what they are learning to
their lives outside and inside the classroom.

__4__39. It is more important for a student to develop a positive self-concept than to

learn specific concepts.

__3__40. Learning is more effective when students are given frequent tests to
determine what they have learned.