WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY

IPIL EXTERNAL STUDIES UNIT

THE TEACHING PROFESSION
PED 100
ARTHUR M. DELMO

ACTIVITY 1

Name: _______________________________________________ Course: ____________ Score: _________

I. Direction: Answer each with a YES or NO. If your answer is NO, explain your answer in a sentence.
________1. Do essentialists aim to teach students to reconstruct society?

________2. Do the essentialist teachers frown on long academic calendar and core requirements?

________3. Are the students’ interests and needs considered in a progressivist curriculum?

________4. Does the progressivist curriculum focus mainly on facts and concepts?

________5. Are the perennialist teachers concerned with the students’ mastery of the fundamental skills?

________6. Is the perennialist curriculum geared towards specialization?

________7. Is the existentialist teacher after students becoming specialists in order to contribute to society?

________8. Do behaviorist teachers believe that students are a product of their environment?

________9. Is the communication that linguistic philosophers encourage limited to verbal language only?

________10. Does the constructivist agree to a teaching methodology of “telling”?

II. Direction: Tell the correct philosophy. You may need to research further.

To which philosophy does each theory of man belong? A person:

____________1. is a product of his environment.
____________2. has no universal nature.
____________3. can choose what he can become.
____________4. has the same essential nature with others.
____________5. first exists then defines him/herself.
____________6. is a communicating being.
____________7. is a complex combination of matter that responds to physical stimuli.
____________8. has no free will.
____________9. a constructor of knowledge
____________10. has no choice; he is determined by his environment.

III. Direction: In a separate sheet, draw a symbol for each of the 7 philosophies. Explain your symbol.
IV. Direction: By means of Venn diagram, compare and contrast the following:
1. Essentialism and perennialism
2. Behaviorism and existentialism
3. Essentialism and progressivism
V. Direction: Formulate your own philosophy of education. You may visit the link for your guidance.
https://www.thoughtco.com/teaching-philosophy-examples-2081517#:~:text=An%20educational
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