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THE CONCEPT OF
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The Concept of Teaching
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The concept of teaching as a profession

“Teaching as a profession laden risk and

responsibility that requires a great deal
for those who enter it”
(John I. Goodlad)

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 Learning Objectives:
A. explain the dimensions of teaching.
B. Discuss the reasons why teaching is an art, science,
craft, mission and vocation.
C. Explain the reason why teaching is considered as a
profession.
D. Enumerate the characteristics of a profession and
how teaching as a profession fits well in these
characteristics.
E. Create a career statement highlighting the reason/s
for choosing teaching as a profession.

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 What is TEACHING?
A. It is an intimate contact between a more
mature personality and a less mature one who is
designed to further education of the latter.
B. An interactive process.
C. A system of actions involving an agent, an end
view and a situation including 2 sets of factors;
those over which the agent has no control and
those that can modify such as way of asking
questions or ideas.

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 C. Is a task of a teacher that is performed for the
development of the learner.
D. Is a process that facilitates learning.
E. Is a cluster of activities that are noted about
teachers such as explaining, deducing, questioning,
motivating, taking attendance, keeping records,
learners progress background information.

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Dimensions of the teaching profession:
A. Entering the profession (the why of
teaching) reasons for choosing teaching as
a career.
B. The learners (the who of teaching)
learners are the reasons for the existence of
teachers, school and school administrators.

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C. Evolution of teacher education in the
Philippines (the when of teaching) Teaching
is an evolving profession.
It has its early beginning and is continually
changing across time.
The 21st century present a different social
landscape for learners and this necessitates
changing the mindset of pre-service
teachers in determining what to teach, how
to teach and where to teach.

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 D. Pedagogy ( the how of teaching)
teachers are required to find means
and ways to enhance learning.

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E. The curriculum (the what of teaching)
it is consists of the educational content,
goals, and intended outcomes as well as
competencies to be taught and
developed among the learners.
Teachers must have a comprehensive
understanding of the curriculum since it
will be the basis of teaching.

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F. Field Placement (The where of teaching) teaching no
longer take place under one roof or done through F2F
encounter, nor confined in the 4 corners of the classroom.
They can be in the field, hospitals, industries, communities
and the like.

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METAPHORS OF TEACHING
Teaching as an art teachers are considered as an
A. Musicians, dancers, painters, sculptors.
B. They demonstrate creativity, reflection and innovation.
C. Posing effective questions is an art.
D. Inspiring students to pursue and enjoy learning makes
teaching as an art.

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According to Elliot Eisner (2005), there are 4 major reasons that
makes teaching as an art;
1. It can be performed with such skill and grace that for learners,
as for the teacher, the experience can be justifiably characterize
as aesthetic.
2. Teachers aside from the skills they have, they make judgments
based on qualities that unfold during the course of action.
3. The teacher’s activity is not dominated by prescriptions or
routine, but influence by qualities and contingencies that are
unpredicted.
4. The ends that it achieves are often created in the process.

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Teaching as a science
It is done in a systematic and orderly manner.
It entails a deep knowledge and application of effective
techniques emanating from empirical studies.
The content(theories and principles) and process (pedagogical
approaches) of teaching are not products of hit and miss.
Ex. Vygotsky’s Zone of proximal development
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Piaget’s cognitive development.
Pavlov’s Conditioning Theory.

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Teaching as a craft
A craft requires a kind of skilled work that undergoes
planning and executing process in order to produce a
product or object.
The combination of teaching as both science and art
makes it a craft.
Teaching is a craft- profession because teachers
possessed special techniques in applying the rules
governing the application of theories of knowledge and
the psychology of learning and teaching.

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Teaching as a vocation
Vocation is synonymous with “summon” as it comes
from the Latin word “vocare” means to call like a strong
desire to spend one’s life doing a certain kind of work.

Teaching therefore is a profession for which God utilizes a

teacher to touch lives.
Teachers who positively responded to their calling
perceive teaching as a lifetime commitment, in EFFECT,
they teach with passion and touch lives through the
years.

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The meaning of profession
Profess means to show, demonstrates or manifest.
Anyone who holds a profession is called a professional
who has the ability to profess expertise of specialization
and determination for excellence in the field.
A professional also profess commitment to the public
interest and devotion to moral and ethical values which
have been acquired through long and tough years of
preparation.

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Teaching as a mission
Mission means to send ( from Latin word Missio) means
missioning which connotes sending one or an organized
group to accomplish a mission.
From the moment a teacher enters the classroom, she is
commissioned to accomplish a task or perform a service
and that tasks includes developing the human resources
of the country and transforming lives of the learners for
the better.
Mission is a “task assigned” or an assignment

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 Characteristics
of a Profession

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 Characteristics of a Profession
All professions, irrespective of their pay, status, and
social role, they share the same characteristics.
1. Professional autonomy refers to the right and
freedom of professions (teachers, lawyers,
accountants, doctors) to determine their own actions
and behavior because they are capable of governing
their own members to submit to the principles and
laws that they altogether committed in practicing their
professions.

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 2. Highly developed theoretical or specialized
knowledge
A profession is founded on an extensive period of
training and education. This long and rigorous training
professionals learn the body of knowledge and skills
distinct to their profession.
Knowledge is evolving, thus professionals need to
continually update themselves and need to undertake
continuing education.

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 3. Control of training, certification and
licensing of new entrants
New entrants undergoes control of training,
certification, and licensing. They are initially required to
enroll in institutionalized training in a university and
college where knowledge and skills in the field are
standardized, and granted certification. Passing the
licensure examination is the only way to be admitted to
the professional body which is based mainly on
theoretical knowledge.

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 4. Self-governing and self authority, especially with
regard to professional ethics
All professions have professional bodies/association
which acts as an interest group enhancing the status
of their members and controlling the entry
requirements to the field. The goal is to self-regulate by
asserting their independence from governmental
interference especially in setting the professional
standard.

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Proofs that teaching is a profession in the
Philippines;
1. They passed the licensure examination for the
profession called BLEPT.
2. They are members of Accredited Professional
Organization (APO) in the country. Specifically,
teachers are members of the national organization of
professional teachers.

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3.Teachers undergo continuing professional
development (CPD) by attending in professional
development activities like seminars, workshops,
conferences and other activities that enhance their
skills and knowledge in the profession.
4.Teachers abide by the code of ethics of their
profession called the Code of Ethics for professional
Teachers.

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 Rewards and challenges of teaching as a
profession;
1. Influence/importance to learners.
2. job security
3. wider job opportunities offered
4. diversity of activities
5. long holidays
6. shorter hours of work

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 Hallmarks of the teaching profession:
1. Ability to make a difference in the lives of
learners.
2. Joy of working with learners
3. Watching learners rise to the challenge
of the subjects.
4. The joy of working with people in general
and youth in particular.
5. Love of the subject matter

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 Factors undermining the status of
teaching profession in the Philippines:
1. Low pay
2.Lack of authority/learner behavior
problem.
3. Teachers lack of control over workplace.
4. Interference of other stakeholders in
schools.
5. Stress
6.Multiplicity of teachers roles and
responsibilities
7. Teachers morale
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 Chapter 1 Highlights
1. Teaching is defined in various ways, all definitions consider
teaching as;
A). A process of causing positive change to learners
B). Process of imparting knowledge and information.
C). A process of instructing, guiding and helping others.
2. Teaching as a profession has the following dimensions;
A). The why of teaching
B). The who of teaching
C). The when of teaching
D). The how of teaching
E). The what of teaching
F). The where of Teaching

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3. Teaching has been conceived with number of
metaphors such as an art, as a science, as a craft, as a
mission, and as a vocation.
4. A profession is an occupation performing a crucial social
function. Practicing a profession requires advanced
education, training and highly specialized intellectual skills.
A professional is someone imbued with a technical culture,
service ethics, professional commitment, and professional
autonomy.
5. A profession has 4 fundamental characteristics;
a). Professional autonomy
b). Highly developed theoretical knowledge
c). Control of training, certification and licensing of new
entrants.

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 Chapter 1 Highlights
7.Self-governing and self-policing authority, especially with
regard to professional ethics.
8. Teaching is a profession because;
a). It is a form of public service.
b). It is acquired and maintained through rigorous and
continuing study.
C).It calls for a sense of personal and corporate
responsibility for the education and welfare of the pupils in
their care.
9. Teaching is a public service which is premised on the fact
that education is a public good wherein the general public
consumes and benefits from it.
10. The professional status of teaching is a critical issue for
discourse.
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Bihag, F.,(2022) The Concept of Teaching as a
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