Divine Word College of Bangued

Bangued, Abra
School of Arts, Sciences and Education

Palangi, Genesis B.
BSED 3 (Major in Science)
THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Engage
In brief, answer the following questions:
a. Is teaching your first choice as a career? Why?
 My answer is no. During my young age I was seeing my self that someday I would be a nurse and I
want to pursue it someday in my college. But due to our financial hitches I took Education as a
replacement for of my dream course. But, as soon as I am doing well in this course I was slowly
embracing and kind of loving what I am doing right now. Also, I kept in the back of my mind that
someday there will be a time I would be a nurse soon.
b. What/who encouraged you to enroll in the College of Education? What do you think are the
reasons why they want you to become a teacher?
 My mom did the encouragement for me to pursue this course, because she told me that she see’s
my father figure in teaching in me.
c. Do you really want to become a teacher?
 At first it was hard for me to take it in that I would be a teacher any time soon. But as I engage and
pursue what I had been started I am kind of loving it. Honestly speaking, I was also stunned that I
am having good grades on my professional educational subjects due to my pursuance that
someday I will also mold a student like me to become successful and motivate them to reach their
goals in life.
d. How do you see yourself ten years from now?
 I am seeing me as a professional teacher and a registered nurse. By God’s glory.

e. Complete the sentence: For me, teaching is sharing knowledge and experience.
 Divine Word College of Bangued
Bangued, Abra
School of Arts, Sciences and Education

Explore

Have you ever pondered on the following questions?

a. Is teaching your first choice as a career?

 No
b. How do you prepare yourself to become a teacher?
 I already prepared myself as I am engaging and by doing my best at this program that I
took.
c. How do you see yourself five years from now?
 A God-fearing man with faith and hope at everything and a successful person by God’s
will.
d. What is teaching to you?
 Teaching for me is about sharing my knowledge and experience to my students and by the
means of knowledge is all what I have learned at school and at the books that I have read.
Whilst, by the means of experience is what I have learned as a student eager to learn and
fathomed by any life means challenge.
 Divine Word College of Bangued
Bangued, Abra
School of Arts, Sciences and Education

Evaluate
Accomplish the following tasks:
Task #1: The modern explosion of knowledge has led to an age of specialization with this
concomitant quip. answer the question that follows:
An expert knows more and more about less and less until he or she knows everything about
nothing.
A generalist knows less and less about more and more until he or she knows everything
about nothing.
Should schools produce generalists or specialists? Defend your answer.
 It ought to be in line with the grade. Learning about life and some methods to enjoy it is the focus of
elementary school. It helps to read, write, and play games with others. Intermediate students
should make sure they get knowledge about the surrounding region, including how to manage,
build, and supply. The rest of the world, what is in it, and the labor that is put into it come second.
with some understanding of how the world works. Community colleges teach many of those skills,
junior colleges offer knowledge needed for numerous jobs, and graduate schools educate skills
specific to professions. Everything in junior college ought to focus mostly on general topics so that
everyone is familiar with everything.

Task #2: Freire opposed the banking method of education and favored critical pedagogy. Why? (The
banking method is characterized as a vertical relationship while the critical pedagogy is characterized by a
horizontal type of relationship. Be guided by the figure below.

Freire directs his criticism towards teachers who may see themselves as the sole possessors of knowledge while
they see their students as empty receptacles into which teachers must deposit their knowledge. He calls this
pedagogical approach the “banking method” of education. The banking method is essentially colonizing, given that
the colonizer or colonizing culture thinks of itself as the correct and valuable culture, while at the same time deeming
the colonized culture as needing the colonizing culture for its own betterment. The banking method is a violent way to
treat students because although the students are human beings with their own inclinations and legitimate ways of
thinking, they are treated as objects that can be shaped in this or that way, instead of human beings.
 Divine Word College of Bangued
Bangued, Abra
School of Arts, Sciences and Education

The relationship developed through the banking method between the teacher and the students is characterized by
insecurity, suspicion of one another, the teacher's need to be in control and power dynamics within an oppressive
hierarchy. The banking method of education is characterized as a vertical relationship:

Teacher

Student

Instead of the banking method, Freire proposes a reciprocal relationship between the teacher and the students in a
democratic environment which allows everyone to learn from each other. Freire's critical pedagogy or problem-posing
education is a democratic approach to reach the democratic ideal, so that the goal and the process are
consistent. Freire explains how the problem with the teacher who intends to hold herself at some higher level of
authority than her students, is that, in not admitting her own fallible nature and ignorance, she places herself in rigid
and deadlocked positions. The rigidity of holding this type of power dynamic negates the process of education as one
of collective inquiry and of knowledge gained. The critical pedagogy that Freire proposes allows for a horizontal or
democratic type of relationship is thus:

Teacher student

 This relationship is a democratic approach to education insofar as both the teacher and the student are open to the
possibility of learning from each other. In this dynamic, no one is above anyone and there is mutual respect. The
teacher and the students acknowledge that everyone has different experiences and knowledge to offer so that all
can benefit, learn and grow from the shared interaction. Because critical pedagogy utilizes dialogue among human
beings who are equals rather than oppressive imposition, Freire chose the process of critical pedagogy as his
pedagogical model instead of tacitly promoting oppressive relationships through the banking method of education.

 
References:

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970

https://www.academia.edu/27249573/Paulo_Freire_and_his_Pedagogy_of_the_Opressed