MAGSAYSAY MEMORIAL COLLEGE OF ZAMBALES, INC.

San Narciso, Zambales

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
Second Semester, Academic Year 2021-2022

Module No. 3
Inclusive Dates March 9, 2022 Date of Submission March 23, 2022
Course Title The Teaching Profession
Course Code PEC 5
Class and Schedule W, Th 5:00-6:30 PM
Instructor Dr. Elsa R. Paje, LPT
Topic Teaching as a Vocation and Mission
Intended Learning
Outcomes (ILOs)  Explain teaching as a vocation and mission
Values Integration Hard work and discipline

Discuss your answers to these questions:

1. When a mother says, “I think my son has a vocation,” what
does she mean?
Pre-Assessment/ 2. A soldier reports and says “Mission accomplished.” What does
Introduction this imply? What does he mean?
3. Some teachers regard teaching as just a job. Others see it as
their mission. What’s the difference? Read Teaching; Mission
and/or job below.
Teaching: Mission and/or Job?

Key Learning Points
If you are doing it only because you are paid for it, it’s a job;
If you are doing it not only for the pay but also for service, it’s a
mission.
If you quit because your boss or colleague criticized you, it’s a job;
If you keep on teaching out of love, it’s a mission.
If you teach because it does not interfere with your other activities, it’s
a job;
If you are committed to teaching even if it means letting go of other
activities, it’s a mission.
If you quit because no one praises or thanks you for what you do, it’s
a job;
If you remain teaching even though nobody recognizes your efforts,
it’s a mission.
It’s hard to get excited about a teaching job;
It’s almost impossible not to get excited about a mission.
If our concern is success, it’s a job;
If our concern in teaching is success plus faithfulness in our job,
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Flexible Learning
Modality/-ies
Teaching-Learning Activity
(TLA)
Assessment Task (AT)
teaching is a mission.
An average school is filled by teachers doing their teaching job;
A great school is filled with teachers involved in a mission of teaching.
 Adapted from Ministry or Job by Anna Sandberg
Modular and On line
Explain teaching as a vocation and mission
Read a research related to teaching as a vocation and mission and fill
out the given matrix: Problem, Research Methodology, Findings,
Conclusions, Source (bibliographical entry format)

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“Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real

possession in the changing fortunes of times.” – Desiderata
Student Reflection

Let us always live a healthy and happy life by:

staying focused
setting goals
training hard
being positive
Instructor’s New Normal eating nutritious food
Reminder never giving up
enjoying life
drinking plenty of water
praying hard

Bilbao, P. P. et al., (2018). The Teaching Profession. Lorimar

Publishing Inc.
Resources

ATTACHMENTS:
HAND-OUT NO. 3

Teaching as a vocation

Vocation comes from the Latin word “vocare’ which means to call. Based on the etymology of
the word, vocation, therefore, means a call. If there is a call, there must be a caller and
someone who is called. There must also be a response. For Christians, the Caller is God
Himself. For our brother and sister Muslims, Allah. Believers in the Supreme being will look at
this voiceless call to have a vertical dimension. For non-beleivers, the call is also experienced
but this may viewed solely along a horizontal dimension. It is like man calling another man,
never a Superior being calling man.
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Most often, when people use the word “vocation,” they refer to a religious vocation, like the
mother in the Activity phase of this Lesson. Vocation includes other big callings like marriage
and single blessedness. It does not only refer to a religious vocation. It can also refer to a call
to do something like to teach, to heal the sick, etc. Whatever is our calling or station in life, the
call is always to serve.

The Christians among you realize that the Bible is full of stories of men and women who were
called by God to do something not for themselves but for others. We know of Abraham, the
first one called by God, to become the father of a great nation, the nation of God’s chosen
people. We recall Moses who was called while in Egypt to lead God’s chosen people out of
Egypt in order to free them from slavery. In the New Testament, we know of Mary who was
also called by God to become the mother of the Savior, Jesus Christ. In Islam, we are familiar
with Muhammad, the last of the prophets to be called by Allah, to spread the teachings of

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Allah. All of them responded positively to God’s call. Buddha must also heard the call to
abandon his royal life in order to seek the answer to the problem on suffering.

From the eyes of those who believe, it was God who called you to teach, just as God called
Abraham, Moses, and Mary,of the Bible. Among so many, you were called to teach. Like you,
these biblical figures did not also understand the events surounding their call. But in their
great faith, they answered YES. Mary said: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done to
me according to your word”. The fact that you are now in the College of Teacher Education
signifies that you said YES to the call to teach. Perhaps you never dreamt to become a
teacher! But here you are now preparing to become one! Teaching must be your vocation,
your calling. May this YES response remain a YES and become even firmer through the
years.

Teaching a a mission

Teaching is also a mission. The word mission comes from the Latin word “mission” which
means “to send.” The Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines mission as “task
assigned.” You are sent to accomplish an assigned task.

The phrase “mission accomplished” from the soldier in the Activity phase of this lesson
suggests that you were sent to do an assigned task, a mission and so if you faithfully
accomplish the assigned task, you proclaim”mission accomplished.” You responded to the call
to be a teacher and so your mission in the world is to teach, the task entrusted to you in this
world. These are how vocatio and mission are related.You were called for a purpose, i.e. to
accomplish a mission while on earth which is to teach.

If it is your assigned task then naturally you’ve got to prepare yourself for it. From now on you
cannot take your studies for granted! Your four years of pre-service preparation will equip you
with the knowledge, skills and attitude to become an effective teacher. However, never
commit the mistakes of culminating your mission preparation at the end of the four-year pre-
service education. Yuou have embarked in a mission that calls for a continuing professional
development. As the saying goes “once a teacher, forever a student.”

Flowing from your uniqueness, you are expected to contribute to the betterment of this world in
your own unique way. Your unique and most significant contribution to the humanization of life
on earth is in the field for which you are prepared – teaching.
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What exactly is the mission to teach? Is it merely to teach the child the fundamental skills or
basic r’s of reading, “riting’, ‘rithmetic’ and right conduct? Is it to help the child master the basic
skills so he/shec can continue acquiring higher-level skills in order to become a productive
member of society? Is it to deposit facts and other information into the “empty minds” of
students to be withdrawn during quizzes and tests? Or is it to “midwife’ the birth of ideas latent
in the minds of students? Is it to facilitate the maximum development of his/her potential not
only for himself/herself but also for others? In the words of Alfred North Whitehead, is it to help
the child become “the man of culture and of expertise?” Or is it “to provide opportunities for
the child’s growth and to remove hampering influences” as Bertrand Russell put it? You will be
made to answer this question again when you will be made to write down your philosophy of
education in a later lesson.

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To teach is to do all of these and more! To teach is to influence every child entrusted in your
care to become better and happier because life becomes more meaningful. To teach is to help
the child become more human.

Teaching and a life of meaning

Want to give your life a meaning? Want to live a purpose-driven life? Spend it passionately in
teaching, the most notable profession. Consider what Dr. Josette T. Biyo, the first Asian
teacher to win in the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award in an international competition, said in
a speech delivered before a selected group of teachers, superintendents, DepEd officials and
consultants, to wit:

Teaching may not be a lucrative position. It cannot guaranted financila security. It even
means investing your personal time, energy, and resources. Sometimes it means
disappointments, heartaches, and pains. But touching the hearts of people and opening the
minds of children can give you joy and contentment which money could not buy. These are
the moments I teach for. These are the moments I live for.

There may be times, when you will feel like giving up (many leave teaching after 3 or 5 years
for varied reasons). Remember you responded to the call to teach and that you have accepted
the mission to teach. May you be found faithful to your vocation and mission till the end.

The “Pwede na” Mentality: Enemy of Excellent Mission Preparation and

Accomplishment

For a professional teacher who looks at teaching as his/her mission, he/she will do everything
to arm himself/herself for an excellent accomplishment of that mission. The striving for
excellent accomplishment sometimes brings us to our “pwede na” mentality, which is inimical
to excellence. This mentality is expressed in other ways like “talagang ganyan ‘yan,” “wala na
tayong magagawa,” “di na mahalata,” ‘di ko na yan sagot,” “dagdag trabaho/gastos lang yan” –
all indicators of deafetism and resignation to mediocrity. If we stick to this complacent
mentality, excellent mission accomplishment elude us. In the world of work whether here or
abroad, only the best and the bgrightest make it. The mortality rate in the Licensue
Examination for Teachers for these past years is a glaring evidence that excellence is very
much wanting of our teacher education graduates. If we remian true to our calling and mission
as a professional teacher, we have no choice but to take the endless and the “less traveled
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road” to excellence.

ACTIVITY NO. 3

Answer the following: (5 points each)

1. What is meant by vocation? Mission?
2. Are these two (vocation and mission) related?
3. Teaching as a job or a mission. What’s the difference?

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ASSES
SMENT TASK NO. 3 (30 points)

REFLECTION NO. 3

“Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes
of times.” – Desiderata

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