COURSE AUDIT AND

REVALIDA EXERCISES (GEN.

EDUCATION STREAM)
BEED 411
All you need to know about the LET
• To be a teacher is to take on the challenge of a
lifetime. You’ll be in a position to shape another
human being through the example you show and
the values you uphold in the classroom. Your
patience, creativity, and passion will be tested
every single day. But before even thinking about
those tests, here’s one that you’ll have to pass!
• The Licensure Exam for Teachers (LET) is a
qualifying exam for all aspiring teachers. There
are separate exams, depending on what grade
level you intend to teach.
You can only take the exam if:
• You’re a Filipino citizen and are at least 18 years
old. Along with this, you should have proof of good
moral conduct and should have never been
convicted. Once, you’ve checked those boxes, all
you have to do is make sure you’ve completed a
bachelor’s degree in education. This usually
comes in a 4-year undergraduate program from a
college or university. To be an elementary or high
school teacher, you have to take courses like (but
not limited to) Bachelor of Elementary Education,
or Bachelor of Secondary Education.
THE L.E.T
• The Licensure Examination for Teachers, LET or
also known as the Board Examination for
Teachers has the most numbered examinees
every year.
• It is conducted by the PRC twice a year.
• To pass the exam, the examinee must have an
average rating of at least 75% and must not get a
score below 50% on any of the tests.
LET COVERAGE
• For Elementary level, the examination covers 40%
topics from General Education (Gen Ed) and 60%
of topics from the Professional Education (Prof
Ed).
• For Secondary level, covers 20% topics from Gen
Ed, 40 % from Prof Ed and 40% from their area of
specialization.
BEED
• For the BEED graduates, the examination is
consists of two parts:
General Education and Professional Education.
Each part consists of 150 test items which will be
taken for more than 3 hours.
 Professional Education Coverage –
BEED AND BSED
• TEACHING PROFESSION
• SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION
• PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING
• EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
• CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
• FACILITATING LEARNING
• CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
• ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING
• DEVELOPMENTAL READING
• FIELD STUDY
• PRACTICE TEACHING
GENERAL EDUCATION COVERAGE – BEED &
BSED – ENGLISH
• STUDY AND THINKING SKILLS
• WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINE
• SPEECH AND ORAL COMMUNICATION
• PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
• MASTER WORKS OF THE WORLD
GEN. ED FILPINO FOR BEED & BSED
• KOMUNIKASYON SA AKADEMIKONG FILIPINO
• MAGBASA AT MAGSULAT TUNGO SA
PANANALIKSIK
• MASINING NA PAGPAPAHAYAG
GEN. ED MATH FOR BEED & BSED
• FUNDAMENTALS OF MATH
• PLANE GEOMETRY
• ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA
• STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
GEN. ED SCIENCE FOR BEED & BSED
• BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE – GENERAL BIOLOGY
• PHYSICAL SCIENCE – EARTH SCIENCE
GEN. ED SOCIAL SCIENCE FOR BEED &
BSED
• PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT NEW CONSTITUTION WITH
HUMAN RIGHTS
• PHILIPPINE HISTORY
• BASIC ECONOMICS
• TAXATION
• AGRARIAN REFORM
• SOCIETY
• CULTURE WITH FAMILY PLANNING
• RIZAL AND OTHER HEROES
• PHILOSOPHY OF MAN
• ARTS
Understanding the Self
• understand –stand under the vastness of the sky when
they want to discern, to ponder, to realize many things. -
stand behind, retreat, where you could see the better
picture.
From the Latin Word
• prehendere (to grasp)
• capere (to perceive)
• you get the idea of something that means existence.

• self – points out to yourself and other selves

PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophy is the love of knowledge or wisdom
• Greek: philo – to love Sophia – knowledge or
wisdom

• knowledge – the things that we know

• wisdom – application of your knowledge into
reality
PERSPECTIVE OF HUMAN PERSON FOR
PHILOSOPHY
• composed of two things: BODY and SOUL
• Body - [lower part of the Human Person]
− capacity to feel that lies our senses that is always about instinct is
towards survival (preservation of life) it is characterized by the
maximization of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.
• Soul/Spirit [higher part of the Human Person] − capacity to know
(knowledge)
 goal of knowledge is TRUTH (anything correct or free from error).
 to will (action) - goal: GOODNESS (your actions should always be
good that doesn’t harm you or other people)
  COMBINATION: freedom which always leads to excellence (the
achievement of truth, goodness and beauty).
 THREE TRANSCENDENTAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE
HUMAN PERSON (our achievable potential)
 Truth,
 Goodness
 Beauty are the characteristics we are trying to
achieve for ourselves and what we look for others
 THE SELF AS HUMAN PERSON IN THE
PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHY
• a self/human person in DUALISTIC.
• LOGIC – the science of correct thinking
*Find your own happiness* truth + goodness =
beauty as a human person we ought to do good.
 Various Philosophical
Perspectives on the Self
 Socrates
• “know yourself, it’s the beginning
of wisdom”
• “the unexamined life is not worth
living”
• every man is composed of body
(the imperfect and impermanent
aspect) and soul (the perfect
and permanent aspect)
• it is a good decision if it begets
commitment.
 Plato
• three components of the soul
(according to his magnum
opus2000)
- rational soul – forged by
reason and intellect
- spirited soul – charge of
emotions
- appetitive soul – in charge of
base desires (e.g. eating,
drinking, sleeping)
 St. Augustine

• “man is of a bifurcated
nature”
• the body is bound to
die here on Earth and
the soul is to anticipate
living eternally in a
realm of spiritual bliss.
 Thomas Aquinas
• the soul is what animates the
body; it is what makes us
humans.
• man is composed of two parts:
 matter − Greek: hyle − means
“common stuff that makes up
everything in the universe − the
material things
 form − Greek: morphe −
“essence of a substance of
thing” − it is what it is − ex: the
chairness of the chair/the idea
of a chair
 Rene Descartes
• Father of Modern Philosophy
• The Meditations of First Philosophy
• cogito ergo sum “I think therefore, I
am” - don’t doubt yourself, I am
thinking therefore I exist
• body + mind
 cogito (mind) − the thing that thinks
 extenza (body) − extension of the
mind
• the body is nothing else that is
attached to the mind.
 David Hume

• a Scottish philosopher
• an empiricist who
believes that one can
know only what comes
from senses and
experiences.
 Immanuel Kant
• there are ideas that one
cannot find in the world,
but is built in our minds
that he calls
apparatuses of the
mind.
 Gilbert Ryle
• what truly matters is the
behaviour that a man
manifests in his day-to- day
life.
• Self is not an entity one can
locate and analyse but
simply the convenient
name that people use to
refer to all the behaviours
that people make.
 Merleau Ponty

• a phenomenologist
(who studies
phenomenon)
• mind and body are so
intertwined that they
cannot be separated
from one another.
• Thesis – the introduction of an idea
• Antithesis – criticize the introduced
idea
The Self, Society and Culture
The self is (according to Stevens, 1996):
 separate
− it means the self is distinct from other selves
− the self is unique and has its own identity
 self-contained and independent
− it is allowed to be self-contained with its own
thoughts, characteristics and volition
− It does not require any other selves for it to exist
The Self, Society and Culture
 consistent
− it is allowed to be studies, described and
measured.
− consistency means that a particular self’s traits,
characteristics, tendencies, and potentialities are
more or less the same
The Self, Society and Culture
 unitary
− self is the center of all experiences and thoughts
that run through a certain person
− it is where all the processes, emotions, and
thoughts converge.
The Self, Society and Culture
 private
− each person sorts out information, feelings, and
emotions and thought processes within self
− self is isolated from the external world
 The Social Constructionist perspective
• The self is always in participation
• we can adjust to any situations or any
environment we’re in
The Self and Culture
• every self has two faces (according to French
Anthropologist Marcel Mauss)
 o moi − refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body,
his basic identity, his biological givenness
− moi is a person’s basic identity
 Personne
-composed of the social concepts of what it means to be
who he is
- how to behave in an institution, family, with expectations
and influences from others