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School Problems That We Commonly Encounter

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Apart from the issues mentioned. Give at least 3 school problems that you encounter on the following areas: A) RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SUPERIOR B) PHYSICAL FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT C) FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Give recommendations to solve the problems. A) RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SUPERIOR             1. Your superior gets moody over time.             Maybe, the best thing that we can do is be consistent when it comes to personality-wise and work-wise. There are really some people who are moody. You can’t change who someone is. All you have to do is to be aware of your superior’s mood and then go on with your day like normal. The best thing that we can do for our superior’s mood swing is to act normally. And we should not let our superior’s mood affect us. We have no idea what he is dealing with, maybe it is just a bad day for him.      ...

Four Concerns in Education

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From the four (4) concerns in educations, make a reaction based on your experience citing at least one (1) situation in education set-up. 1. QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE             Quality of education is one of the major issue that the Philippine government should resolve but somehow it is recently improving. Few years ago, Philippine education has declined because of poor results from standard test conducted among elementary and secondary students, as well as tertiary level. The results were way below the target mean score. Factors that greatly affected the quality of education in our country were high drop-out rates, high number of repeaters, low passing grades, lack of particular language skills, failure to adequately respond and address the needs of people with special needs, overcrowded classrooms, and poor teacher performances. Because of this, quality of education in our country has been compromised. It is also very tr...

Religious Ethical Teachings

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ETHICAL TEACHINGS IN HINDUISM Hinduism, major world  religion  originating on the Indian subcontinent and  comprising  several and varied systems of  philosophy , belief, and  ritual . Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich  cumulative  tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium BCE or possibly earlier. If the  Indus valley civilization  (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of these traditions, as some scholars hold, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth. Its many  sacred  texts in  Sanskrit  and  vernacular  languages served as a vehicle for spreading the religion to other parts of the world, though ritual and the visual and performing arts also played a significant role in its transmission. From about the 4th century...

ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF SAINT THOMAS

St. Thomas Aquinas (AKA Thomas of Aquin or Aquino) (c. 1225 - 1274) was an Italian philosopher and theologian of the  Medieval  period. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology at the the peak of  Scholasticism  in Europe, and the founder of the  Thomistic  school of philosophy and theology. The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, but also Western philosophy in general. His most important and enduring works are the "Summa Theologica", in which he expounds his systematic theology of the "quinquae viae" (the five proofs of the existence of God), and the "Summa Contra Gentiles".             Aquinas was a Christian theologian, but he was also an  Aristotelian  and an  E...

Ethical Teachings of Saint Agustine

To be a teacher in the context of this struggle was, for Augustine, an act of love. Indeed, he advised teachers to "Imitate the good, bear with the evil, love all" (1952, p. 87). This love was required, for he knew the hardships of study, and the active resistance of the young to learning. He also considered language to be as much a hindrance as a help to learning. The mind, he said, moves faster than the words the teacher utters, and the words do not adequately express what the teacher intends. Additionally, the student hears the words in his own way, and attends not only to the words, but also to the teacher's tone of voice and other nonverbal signs, thus often misunderstanding the meaning of the teacher. The teacher, thus, must welcome students' questions even when they interrupt his speech. He must listen to his students and converse with them, and question them on their motives as well as their understanding. He saw education as a process of posing problems an...

Ethical Teachings of Jesus Christ

Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfil it ( Matt 5:17 ,  18 ). This means, on the one hand, that He endorsed it. This He did, first, by yielding to it an obedience that was unique. Not only in moral matters but also in its wider connotation, Jesus abode by the law ( Matt 17:27 ;  23:23 ;  Mark 14:12 ). Second, He endorsed its teaching, subsuming all under the twofold head of love to God and neighbour ( Matt 22:37-40 ). Ethical obligation, according to the Saviour's teachings, is enforced by the yet higher religious obligation. Our duties to men are really a part of our all-comprehensive duty to God. Why must I love my neighbour as myself? If it be placed on utilitarian grounds, meaning personal utility, then I ought to love my neighbour as myself because it will benefit me, that is, because I love myself better than my neighbour. If the utility consulted be general, then why ought I to care as much for the general good as for my own? We...

ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF PLATO

Plato, student of Socrates, also has mystery surrounding him. His birth day is estimated to fall between 428 BC and 423 BC. He’s known for being the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. My favorite of Plato’s contributions to philosophy, and the one I’m going to focus on, is the Theory of Forms. This theory was created to solve two problems, one of ethics and one of permanence and change. The ethical problem is: how can humans live a fulfilling life in an ever changing world if everything that they hold close to them can be easily taken away? The problem dealing with permanence and change is: How can the world appear to be both permanent and changing? The world we perceive through senses seems to be always changing–which is a pretty clear observation. The world that we perceive through the mind, seems to be permanent and unchanging. Which world perceived is more real? Why are we seen two different worlds? To find a solu...

ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF SOCRATES

Socrates, born in Athens in 470 BC, is often credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. The cloud of mystery surrounding his life and philosophical viewpoints propose a problem; a problem so large that it’s given a name itself: The Socratic Problem. Since he did not write philosophical texts, all knowledge related to him is entirely dependent on the writings of other people of the time period. Works by Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, and Aristophanes contain all of the knowledge known about this enigmatic figure. His largest contribution to philosophy is the Socratic Method. The Socratic Method is defined as a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to illuminate ideas. This method is performed by asking question after question with the purpose of seeking to expose contradictions in one’s thoughts, guiding him/her to arrive at a solid, tenable conclusion. The principle underlying the Socratic Method is that humans learn thr...

ETHICAL TEACHINGS OF ARISTOTLE

             One of Aristotle’s oft discussed ideas is The Doctrine of the Mean. In it is found a lot of philosophical jargon which does not impart wisdom and instruction or rules of morality; philosophical fellows may argue its merits but one is none better for the discussion. This thinking emphasizes avoiding too much or too little and is applied to everything from appetite to charitable giving to punishment. Arguments arise because no specifics or measurements can be accurately given. From this doctrine arise questions about man, what is a “good” man; what is the difference between technical goodness and moral goodness? Happiness is the highest good and the end at which all our activities ultimately aim. All our activities aim at some end, though most of these ends are means toward other ends. For example, we go grocery shopping to buy food, but buying food is itself a means toward the end of ...

Pamathalaan

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Pamathalaan is about a God-centered governance and a spiritual leadership that was rooted in an ancestral folk religious belief . Its goals moves towards rereading, reinterpretng, and rewriting laws that is for freedom, equality, justice, and unity. The term “Pamathalaan” was a combination of differerent words. According to Marius Diaz, a former SVD seminarian, the term came from “ Pamahalaan ” (Government),   “ Thala ” (after Bathala, Native God) and, “ Taal ” (Indigenous). These terms were engange into one and became “ Pamathalaan” that aims to capture the Kapatiran’s ancestral and heroic heritage. It was only later discovered the term “ mathal ” which means model for Arabic and “ laan ” which means destined from Dr. Jose Rizal’s pseudonym “Laong laan”. The latter was contributed by Prof. Ma. Milagros C. Laurel from University of the Philippines.             The five units of meaning taken together. Now, the term “...

Collaborative Learning

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Collaborative learning is an educational approach that involves groups of learners working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. It is based on the idea that learning is a naturally social act. Learning occurs though active engagement among peers, either face-to-face or online. The main characteristics of collaborative learning are: a common task or activity; small group learning, co-operative behavior; interdependence; and individual responsibility and accountability (Lejeune, 1999). Collaborative learning is similar to, but not the same as, cooperative learning. In cooperative learning the task is divided vertically (i.e., members work more or less concurrently on different aspects of a project), whereas in collaborative learning the task is divided horizontally (i.e., members work together more or less sequentially on different aspects of a project) (Dillenbourg, 1999). Collaborative learning is commonly illustrated when groups of students work tog...

Direct Instruction

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Direct Instruction is a teacher-centered model. This model is one of the traditional method that we can consider. This model was sometimes called “Explicit Instruction”. In this model, the teacher is the authority figure in the classroom. Lessons were directly taught by using this method of teaching. The emphasis is on using the lecture technique-questioning. There is also strong emphasis on “drill-and-practice”. Students are essentially told what they need to learn and how they should learn it and it emphasizes both guided and independent practice. This model has divided into different parts. The first part is the Presentation where the teacher directly presents the topic that he needs to discuss. It can be done with the use of short story or by just directly discussing the topic. It is followed by Modeling. In this part, the teacher usually give more examples to support the topic that he discussed. It can be also done by thinking aloud. It is the part where the teacher model...