LA PATRIA COLLEGE

Santiago City

INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE IN EDUC 5a

Principles of Teaching 1

TOPIC/S: CHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING TEACHING

 The Nature of Teaching
 Teaching Concepts
WEEK: 1
TIME ALLOTMENT: 3 Hours CONSULTATION TIME: 3:00-6:00 SUN

OBJECTIVES/ LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this module, the students shall be able to:

1. Describe comprehensively what teaching is;
2. Elucidate the nature of teaching; and
3.Explain why teaching is a multi-sided task.

DISCUSSION:
THE NATURE OF TEACHING

INTRODUCTION
Teaching is one of the most demanding of all professions. It exacts a tremendous demand of the
teacher’s teaching skills and personal qualities before they can satisfactorily perform the multiple roles
and manifold responsibilities it entails. A more important role that teaching evokes is the unwavering
commitment and loyalty to the profession. Their adherence to the ethical and moral standards is elicited
through a code. Ultimately, an impeccable integrity, honesty, and sincerity it brings forth make them
worthy of emulation by the students, co-workers, and other professionals.
On the other hand, a teacher, as a person and as a professional is depicted as a well-spring of
knowledge and skill and a model of values, thus deserving to be called professional. Competent,
compassionate, and caring, her attitudes are reciprocated with love, respect, and emulation. Such is a
rewarding life of a teacher.
Teaching is a challenging profession as it requires long hours of work and preparation. Moreover, it
necessitates skill in planning and skill in classroom. In the earlier times, teaching is universally
acknowledged as a respected and highly esteemed career. Its lifelong mission consists of a persistent
pursuit of knowledge, development of skills and proficiency in work dimensions and inculcation of values
and attitudes of all practitioners. It is a profession committed to serve children, adults, community and
nation.
Teaching as a time-honored career, is viewed as a dynamic activity aimed at awakening and nurturing
the children’s spirit of inquiry, at the same time catering to their learning abilities, interests, and
aspirations. Regarded as an art, teaching is a conglomeration of a teacher’s talent and skill in reaching out
their hearts and minds.
Teaching is described by an educator as a moral activity. Whether conscious of it or not, a teacher
teaches values both implicitly and explicitly by the very way he relates to his students. He teaches respect
by being respectful, reasonableness by being reasonable and truthfulness by being truthful. Anyone who
embarks on a teaching career is a paragon of virtues, a staying quality in such a magnanimous calling.

Teaching can be regarded in three ways- profession, mission, and vocation.

1. TEACHING AS A PROFESSION

Teaching is universally accepted as a profession. It is a noble profession. The term profession

commonly refers to one’s occupation, job or specialty. It has defined goals and from its performance,
one derives self-fulfillment. Educators and others in field of education view profession as one’s vocation,
employment, or field of lifelong endeavor.

Teaching is considered a profession if its choice is motivated by any or all of the following:

1. You must be willing to go through a period of long preparation.

2. You must be willing to go through continuing education.
3. You must strive for excellence (not “pwede na” mentality)
4. Involves direction borne by proper planning.
5. Display you must love, care, and compassion for children.
6. You must commit yourself to moral, ethical, and religious values.
7. You must dedicate yourself to service.

2. TEACHING AS MISSION
 The word mission is derived from the Latin word “Misio” which means to send.
 According to Webster’s dictionary- “a task assigned”
 If you consider teaching as a mission, then:
a. It is a task entrusted to you in this world.
b. It is your assigned task thus; you have to prepare for it.
c. It calls for a continuing professional education. (Once a teacher, forever a student”.)

3. TEACHING AS VOCATION
  The word vocation comes from the Latin word “Vocare” which means “to call” thus vocation
is a calling. (Many are called but few are chosen)
 If you consider teaching as vocation, it means:
a. You said YES to your call to teach.
b. You commit your self to the total transformation of the learner.
c. You consider teaching as a lifetime commitment. (This aims through the years towards
quality teaching.)

TEACHING CONCEPTS

Garcia quotes Ronal Hyman (1970) - a teacher must know what teaching is because his concept of
teaching guides his behavior and his own interpretation of teaching becomes essential to his performance
as a teacher. (Example: a father to his teenage son)

1. Teaching is a complex human activity (Highet, 1954)

 It is so because teaching involves a wide range of human interactions, organizational
arrangements, and materials or resources covering the teaching-learning process.
 It is involving more of the learner than the teacher- from monopolist to mediator function.
a. Human Interactions- teaching is considered a system of actions varied in form of content but
directed toward learning. It is in the performance of these actions and in the interactions if the
teacher with his students that learning take place.
b. Organizational arrangement- teaching is an activity with four phases:
 Curriculum planning phase- helping to formulate the goals of education, selecting content,
and stating objectives.
 Instructing phase- creating intentions regarding instructional strategies and tactics,
interacting and acting on situational and feedback about instruction.
 Manipulating Models- selecting or creating measurement devices, measuring learning,
organizing, and analyzing measurement data.
 Evaluating Phase- evaluating the appropriateness of objectives of instruction and validity
and reliability of devices used to measure learning.
c. Material/Resources- the process of teaching includes:
 The selection and development of instructional units
 Planning individual lessons
 Organizing materials for instructional purposes
 Designing methods to be used
 Classroom management
 Evaluation of pupil’s achievements
 Reporting of pupil’s grades

2. Teaching is considered an art. It signifies the way a teacher expresses his emotions and
communicates his feelings through his teaching chores. In this light, teaching is a conglomeration of
ones talents, skills, and expertise in reaching out and enriching children’s lives. It aims to achieve an
enjoyable and fruitful learning depending on teacher’s attributes, crafts, and finesse in developing their
knowledge, attitudes, and values. A skillful teacher displays a caring, compassionate, and creative
approach that makes teaching a masterful act of touching people’s hearts and minds. It is an art which
is more suited to satisfy the heart. It makes teaching more adaptive and flexible to meet highly varied
and complex needs of learners. It views a teacher as a craftsman.

3. Teaching as a Science- Teaching is likewise a science. While science aims at the discovery of the
nature and orderliness of our world around, teaching as a science seeks the application of a scientific
attitude and methodology in deciding about strategies to employ, instructional materials to use, and
other best practices to adopt. Guided by scientific procedure, teaching is regarded as a practical and
consistent way of modeling how a virtuous, trustworthy, and humble scientist works in raising the
ethical standards of the profession. Teaching is a science that is primarily directed to inform the head.
It emphasizes the cognitive and psychomotor aspects. It makes teaching more skillfully executed and it
views the teacher as an academician.

4. Teaching as a system of actions and interactions between teacher and his students. - It
requires an understanding of the role of more mature, experience members of society in stimulating,
directing, managing, and guiding the immature and inexperienced members in their adjustments to life.
With young and immature learners as input into the system, the processing take place in the school
setting with the teacher playing a major role in instructing the inexperienced so that they can develop
into upright and useful members of society and well- adjusted citizens with wholesome personalities
imbued with:

a. Love of country
b. Duties of citizens
c. Moral character
d. Personal discipline
e. Scientific, technological, and vocational efficiency.

5. Teaching is one of the most exalted forms of social service

 Gregorio (1976) states that the classroom is a society made up of teachers and learners working
together for the purpose of human growth and betterment. The opportunities of the teachers and
 learners for good evil are boundless. For this reason, society has insisted that teachers should be
known for their high character, honesty, integrity, and skill.
 Teaching is guided by the spirit of service. Service maybe defined as the performance of a task
for the benefit of others given voluntarily, by request, or by fulfilling a social need. People look at
it as a beginning and end of the teaching profession.

REFERENCES:
1. Acero, V. et al. (2015). Principles of Teaching 1. Manila, Philippines: Rex Bookstore.
2. Corpuz, B. and Salandanan, G. (2003) Principles and Strategies of Teaching. Quezon City: Lorimar
Publishing, Inc.
3. Lardizabal, A. (2000) Principles and Methods of Teaching. 3rd Edition. Quezon City. Phoenix
Publishing House, Inc.
 LEARNING TASK/ACTIVITY
Week 1 (August 24-28, 2020)

Name: ________________________________ Program and Year: __________________

(Deadline of Submission: September 1, 2020)

Activity 1. SHORT RESPONSE: Answer the questions below substantially. Limit your answers to 5-10
sentences only. (15 points)
1. Why is it important to understand teaching? (5 points)
2. How can quality instruction be ensured? (5 points)
3. Differentiate teaching as a profession; as a mission and as a vision. Use concrete examples (5 points)

Activity 2. EXPERIENTIAL TASK. Using comparison matrix, compare and contrast your previous teachers
(styles, strategies and techniques) in elementary, high school and college. (30 points)

Sample Template:
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS SECONDARY TEACHERS TERTIARY
TEACHERS/INSTRUCTORS
Similarities
Differences

Activity 3. ACROSTIC. Let us test how creative you are. Define Teaching by thinking of a word/words that
start/s with each other of the term. (10 points)

T-
E-
A-
C-
H-
I-
N-
G-

SCORING RUBRIC FOR ACTIVITY 1 and ACTIVITY 2

5 points Comprehensive answer and includes extensive information
4 points Well written answer includes some strong analysis
3 points Well written answer but lacks analysis
2 points Lacks of organization and uses little information
1 point Barely addresses the question

SCORING RUBRIC FOR ACTIVITY 3

10 points Answers show mastery of content and deeper analysis/ understanding
of the content.
8 points Answers show some analysis. Student’s answer show master and
understanding of the content.
6 points Answer show some understanding of the essential content, facts, but it
is lacking in greater analysis and evidence.
4 points Answers do not show understanding of basic content. Answers are
incomplete or inaccurate. Answers show mastery of the general content
is missing.
2 points Product does not address the assignment or is off topic. Answers are
not prompt or tract.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED WEEK ONE MODULE!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Prepared by:

GILBERT N. BERSOLA, LPT, MAEd

Instructor

Reviewed/Approved:

NOVELYN L. MITRA, LPT, MST

Program Head, Teacher Education