1. EPISODE 2
Bryan M. Nozaleda
Marjohn Adduru
Edna Luz Addun
Jennifer Luyun

5. INTRODUCTION
What do you firmly believe about schools and
education? This episode will clarify your belief or
philosophy about teaching and education.
Perhaps you have already decided that you
would become a teacher. Your belief or
philosophy of teaching will explain your actions
as a future teacher . The foundations of all that
you do in school and in teaching is usually
based on a strong belief called philosophy of
education.

6. Target
 Clear understanding of my
philosophy of teaching and
education
 Identify teacher’s leanings
on the different educational
philosophies

7.  1. The student learning should be centered around basic subjects such as reading,
writing, history, math and science.
 2. The schools subject should focus on the great thinkers of the past.
 3. Many students learn best by engaging in real-world activities rather than reading.
 4. The students should be permitted to determine their own curriculum.
 5. Subject matter is taught effectively when it is broken down into small part.
 6. The school subjects should be determined by information that is essential for all
students to know.
 7. Schools, above all, should develop students’ abilities to think deeply, analytically,
and creatively; than develop their social skills or provide them with a useful body of
knowledge about the ever-changing world.
 8. Teaching should prepare student to analyzing and solving the types of problems
they will face outside the classroom.
 9. Reality is determined by each individual’s perceptions. There is no objective and
universal reality.
 10. People are shape much more by their environment than by their genetic
dispositions or the exercise of their free will.

8.  11. Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next
until they have a real and mastered certain material.
 12. An effective education is not aimed at the immediate needs of
the student or society.
 13. The curriculum of a student should be built around the personal
experiences and needs of students.
 14. Students who do not want to study much should not be
required to do so.
 15. Programmed learning is an effective methods of teaching
information.
 16. Academic rigor is an essential component of education.
 17. All students regardless of ability, should study more or less the
same curriculum.
 18. Art classes should focus primarily on individual expression and
creativity .
 19. Effective learning is unstructured and informal .
 20. Students learn best through the reinforcement.

9.  21. Effective schools assign a substantial amount of homework.
 22. Education should focus on the discussion of timeless questions such as
quotation “what is beauty?” or “what is truth?”
 23. Since students learn effectively through social interaction, school should
plan for the substantial social interactions in their curricula.
 24. The purpose of school is to helps students understand themselves and
find the meaning of their existence.
 25. Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students
know.
 26. Countries must become more competitive economically with other
countries hence schools must bolster their academic requirements to
facilitate such competition.
 27. Students must be taught to appropriate learning primarily for each own
sake, because it will help them in their careers.
 28. Schools must place more emphasis on teaching about the concerns
minorities and woman.
 29. Each person has free will to develop as he or she sees fit.
 30. Reward students well for learning and they will remember and be able to

10.  31. Philippine schools should attempt to instill traditional Filipino values in students.
 32. Teacher-guided discovery of profound truths is a key method of teaching
students.
 33. Students should be active participants in the learning process.
 34.There are no external standards of beauty. Beauty is what an individual
decides it to be.
 35. We can place a lot of faith in our schools and teachers to determine which
student behaviors are acceptable and which are not.
 36. Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of basic facts regarding the
books, people and events that have shaped the Filipino heritage.
 37. Philosophy is ultimately at least as practical a subject to study as is computer
science.
 38. Teacher must stress for students the relevance of what they are learning for their
lives outside, as well as inside, the classroom.
 39. It is more important for a student to develop a positive self-concepts than to learn
specific concepts.

12. The data showed that Mrs. Jovi Decemrada
made the highest total rating on the questions pertaining to
essentialism making her the most essentialist among all
of us. Meanwhile, it was her again who took the
perennialist’s spot. We got a tie on who is more
progressivist, namely Marjohn Adduru and Mrs. Pilar
Tumanguil. Bryan Nozaleda made it to the
Existentialist Spot while Mrs. Jovi Decemrada once
again got the highest rating on the questions on
behaviorism. On the other hand, the least inclined to the
educational philosophies are: Jennifer Luyun;
Essentialism, Bryan Nozaleda; Perennialism, Edna Luz
Addun;Progressivism, Existentialism, and Bryan Nozaleda;
Behaviorism.
Among the six of you, who is more inclined to be an
essentialist, perrenialist, progressivist, existentialist or
behaviorist?

13. Visit a teacher in a school and observe what school/classroom activities
reflect his/her philosophy of education while she is teaching. Identify and
describe teacher’s action or behavior and match with the identified
educational philosophy .
 It can be said that the result of the questionnaire has no significant difference, therefore
leading us to a conclusion that teacher two is a mixture of the philosophies and it shows
to her teaching strategies. She used a jigsaw strategy when she introduced the
properties of the different radioactive particles. Her intention of grouping her students in
small groups manifests a progressivist approach. Practical applications were also given
to the students at the end of the lesson. The regrouping of the students showed
an existentialist behavior. It recognizes the unique ability of the learners as they share to
their mother group what they have learned in the smaller group. Teacher two have made
also steps to show the behaviorist in her. Before the class proper, she accomplished first
her normal routines: Praying, Attendance monitoring ,and of course,
disciplining while doing the group activity. We have also observed the
perrenialist side of the teacher. The lessons learned were from the books alone and
new concepts were not presented. (progressivism was not there) Moreover, the
essentialist side was shown in the choice of content of teacher two. The properties of
radioactive particles are fundamental to the understanding
radioactive reactions. She could have proceeded to the reactions because
high school nuclear physics rarely uses the properties.

14. My Reflections
 Based on your concrete experience and the
action of the teacher you have observed,
how important is your philosophy of
education to your future career as a
teacher? How would your experiences and
observations contribute to your becoming
a teacher?

15. Here we go again
 However, with this experience, it changed my perspective
as I identify my philosophy. Basically our educational
philosophies stand as our foundations or directions but have we
ever come to a realization that our own philosophy in itself
is us? Our philosophy is who we are, what we are and how
we have become through time.
 Knowing our philosophy is knowing ourselves. In the teaching
and learning process, it is important to identify our strengths
and weaknesses and the kind of philosophy we have will give
us an idea on that.
 Moreover, it will reflect also the kind of instruction we will soon
have and of course that includes, our choice on instructional
materials, strategies and techniques, and evaluation procedures. It
is like our hands that grow as we age and follow a series of
development as it explores a diverse possibilities. Therefore,
our philosophies serve as our building blocks, our blueprint,
or our genetic makeup whatever names you call it, that

16. Affirmed Concepts
 1: WE DON’T HAVE DISTINCT
PHILOSOPHIES.
 2: SCIENCE TEACHERS ARE MORE
INCLINED TO BE
PROGRESSIVISTS AND HAVE
LESSER TENDENCIES TO
BECOME PERENNIALISTS.
 3: OUR EDUCATIONAL

17. Future Applications
 In Teaching and Learning
 Identify first what's our philosophy.
 Use it as our guide in choosing the content of our
instruction.
 Base our choices of methodologies to it.
 Understand what our philosophy means to us at
the same time realize that we are different to
others and to our learners.
 Teach in a way suited to the learners.
 Give them evaluation that really assess their
abilities both mentally and physically.
 Provide the learners a learning environment that
truly boost their potential.

18. In addressing diversity of
Learners
 Our knowledge on different educational philosophies will
address the diversity of learners. The findings we had in our
observations and experiences will suggest that we possess a
sort of character that has multi-philosophies. Thus, this
character will give us the ability to mimic with our
learners as they show their unique styles in learning.
Well, every teacher has a dominating philosophy but to have
an adaptive capacity is to have an edge over the
others. The fact that our philosophies give us a repertoire of
strategies and methods will make our teaching easier
because we are provided with many options to choose from.
Choices that will make our students learn better and
have a clearer understanding of everything. Use our
philosophies to the fullest. Understand what it means
to us. If we do that, we will also understand our
learners and all their differences.

19. In creating a conducive learning
environment
 Giving them an idea of who you are and
what do you expect of them will make a
firm environment. If students know what is
expected of them, they are then capable
of helping create a positive classroom
environment.