Don Bosco College Canlubang

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Term 1, Academic Year 2022-2023

INTERPRETING YOUR SCORES:

(How to Determine Your Philosophy of Education)

If you have 2 answers of 2/4 in numbers:

1, 3, 5, 7 _________________ You are more of progressivist

2, 4, 6, 8 _________________ You are more of a perennialist
9, 15, 20, 25 _________________ You are more of an existentialist
10, 12 _________________ You are more of a behaviorist
11, 13, 17, 18 _________________ You are more of an essentialist
14, 16, 21, 22 _________________ You are more of a constructivist
19, 23, 24 _________________ You are more of a linguistic philosopher

If you have 2 scores of 4 in several of the 7 clusters, you have an eclectic philosophy which
means you put the philosophies together. If your scores are less than 4, this means that you
are not very definite in your philosophy. Or if your scores are less than 3 in most of the items,
this means your philosophy is quite vague.

After you have gotten an idea on the philosophy/ies you lean let us know more about each of
them. The following notes were lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
_of_education.

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Think-Pair-Share Activity:

A. Based on the results of this exercise, what did you discover about the type of
philosophy you most adhere to? In other words, what kind of a philosopher are
you? Are you teacher-centered or learner-centered? Support your answer.

B. Find a pair and share your discoveries. If you decide so, you can expand your
group exchange of ideas on educational philosophies related to teacher-
centered and learner-centered teaching.

C. Document your output.