LESSON III SOCIETY AND YOU

What are we in this world for if not to make this world more
bearable for each other?
-UNKNOWN
Community Perception on the Role of teachers in the Community
Teacher are perceive to be:
1. Very important in a community.
2. Respected in a community.
3. Help in the community to some extent.
Community Perception on Beliefs and Attitudes about Teachers and
Teaching
The community respondent strongly agreed that teachers:
1. Help develop the moral character of children.
2. Are second parents.
3. Are assets to community.
The community respondents agreed with 12 beliefs and attitudes as
follow:

1. The most intelligent child should be encouraged to enter the teaching

profession.
2. Teacher sets moral standard of the community.
3. Teacher make good parents.
4. Men should be encouraged to enter the teaching profession.
5. The teaching profession is one of the lowest paid.
6. Teachers should be paragons of virtue.
7. Children obey and respect their teacher.
8. Teachers play an active role in disciplining children.
9. Praising boosts a childs self-confidence.

10.

A teacher is a childs model.

11.

Childs interest in studies depends upon his/her teachers.

12.

Parents entrust childrens welfare to teachers.

The community respondents were doubtful regarding this item:

Female teachers generally become old maids
They disagreed with item: Teachers may inflict physical
punishment on children.

LESSON V: VALUES FORMATION AND YOU

TRANSCENDENT VALUES
-beyond, unchanging and universal values
Example: LOVE, CARE AND CONCERN
Are taught or caught?
VALUES ARE BOTH CAUGHT AND TAUGHT
The living examples of good men and women at home, school and society
have far influence on our value formation than those well-prepared lectures
on values excellently delivered by expert.
VALUES have Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Dimensions
We must understand the value that we want to acquire. We need to know
why we have to value such. This is the heart of conversation and values.
Value formation includes formation in the Cognitive, Affective and
Behavioral Aspect
Your value formation as a teacher will necessarily include the three
dimensions. You have to grow I knowledge and in wisdom and in your
openness to the variety of value experience in life.
Value formation is a Training of the INTELLECT and WILL
Your value formation in essence is the training of your INTELLECT and WILL
INTELLECT is the power to form ideas, judge and reason out.
WILL wills to act on the right value and wills to avoid the wrong value
presented by your intellectual.
VIRTUOUS vs. VICIOUS Life and their effect on the will
a VIRTUOUS life strengthens you to live a life of abundance and joy while a
VICIOUS life leads you to perdition and misery
MAX SCHELERS HIERCHY
OF VALUES

PLEASURE VALUES-pleasant against unpleasant

Example: sensual feelings, experiencing pleasure or pain
VITAL VALUES-pertaining to well-being
Example: health, vitality
SPIRITUAL VALUES-Independent of the whole sphere of the body and of the
environment
Example: values of right and wrong
VALUES OF THE HOLY-appear only regard to object intentionally given as
absolute object
Example: Belief, adoration
The lowest values are those that have something to do with
PLEASURE while the highest are those that pertain to GOD.

LESSON VI: TEACHING AS YOUR VOCATION, MISSION AND

PROFESSION
A.ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VOCATION
VOCATION comes from the Latin word vacare which means to call
-if there is a call, there must be a caller and someone who
is called.
B.TEACHING AS YOUR VOCATION
It was god who called you to teach or it just your parents or you?
C.ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MISSION
MISSION comes from the Latin word misio which means to send
-You are called to be a teacher and you sent into the world
to accomplish a
mission, TEACH
D.TEACHING AS YOUR MISSION
-Teaching is your mission means, it is the task entrusted to you in the
world.
-You have embarked in a mission that calls for continuing professional
education as the saying goes once a teacher, forever a student.
-To teach is to influence every child entrusted in your care to become
better and happier because life becomes more meaningful. To teach is
to help the child become more human.
E. THE ELEMENTS OF A PROFESSION
Profession require:
-long and arduous years of preparation
-striving for excellence
The term professional is one of the most exalted in the English
language, denoting as it does, long and arduous years of preparation, a

striving for excellence dedication to the public interest and

commitment to moral and ethical values.
F. THE PWEDE NA MENTALITY VS EXCELLENCE
The striving for excellence as another element of a profession brings
us to pwede na mentality, which is inimical to excellence. This
mentality is expressed in other ways like talagang ganyan, wala na
tayong magagawa all indicators of defeatism and resignation to
mediocrity.
In the world of work whether here or abroad only the best and the
brightest make it.

G. TEACHING AND A LIFE OF MEANING

Dr. Josette T. Biyo (first Asian teacher to win the Intel Excellence in the
teaching award in an international competition said:
Teaching may not be a lucrative position. It cannot guarantee
financial security. It even means investing your personal time, energy
and resources. Sometimes it means disappointments, heartaches and
pains. But touching the hearts of the people and opening the minds of
the children can give you joy and contentment which money could not
buy. These are the moments I teach for. These are the moments I live
for