Christian P.

Gonzales-TCP-A

Educ231

Activity no. 5

No. 1

Relevant qoutations

Direction:Look for some quotations related to each of the twelve principles which can be related to real
life situations such as dealing with your family, siblings, friends, classmates and others.

PRINCIPLE 1. Teachers’ knowledge of the subject matter is essential to the implementation of important
teaching tasks.

qoutation: “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” ― Galileo

PRINCIPLE 2. Active involvement of the learner enhances learning.

qoutation: Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”― Brian Tracy

PRINCIPLE 3. Interaction between teachers and students is the most important factor in student
motivation and involvement.

qoutation: “Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest
difference.”― John Wooden

PRINCIPLE 4. Students benefit from taking responsibility for their learning.

qoutation: “The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.”― Elbert
Hubbard

PRINCIPLE 5. There are many roads to learning.

qoute: “I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”―
Albert Einstein

PRINCIPLE 6. Expect more and you will achieve more.

qoute: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ―Aristotle

PRINCIPLE 7. Learning is enhanced in an atmosphere of cooperation.

qoute:"Alone we can do little; together we can do so much." --Helen Keller

PRINCIPLE 8. Material must be meaningful.

qoute:Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.– Napoleon Hill

PRINCIPLE 9. Both teaching and learning are enhanced by descriptive feedback.

qoute: “Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.”– Tim
Fargo

PRINCIPLE 10. Critical feedback is only useful if the learner has alternatives to pursue.

qoute:“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his
roots.”– Frank A. Clark

PRINCIPLE 11. Time plus energy equals learning

qoute:Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.-Sarah
Bernhardt

PRINCIPLE 12. Experience usually improves teaching.

qoute:“Experience teaches only the teachable.”― Aldous Huxleyerience

No.2

Asses: Documetation of the teacher's interview

Interview a teacher. ask what principle he/she applies the most.

Support it with his/her teaching strategies

Upon interviewing my elementary teacher, she said she applies PRINCIPLE 7(Learning is enhanced in an
atmosphere of cooperation) the most.

According to her, She usually put us into different groups because she believes that if we work by group,
it will be a challenge for us

to aim for something excellency, to interact with other personalities, to brainstorm and collide different
ideas, and to adjust with one anther.

Through this, learners would discover that learning is more fun and meaningful if we use a group.