Teacher L gives his students opportunities to be creative because of his conviction that much learning results from the need to express creativity. On which theory is Teacher L’s conviction anchored?

• HUMANIST

• COGNITIVE

• BEHAVIORIST

• ESSENTIALIST

Teacher Maria sees to it that her classroom is clean and orderly so her pupils will less likely disarrange seats and litter on the floor. On which thought is her action based?

• BEHAVIORISM

• EXISTENTIALISM

• PROGRESSIVISM

• RECONSTRUCTIONISM

Teacher Sally is of the thinking that from the very start students must be made to realize that study is indeed hard work. To which philosophy does Teacher Sally adhere?

• PROGRESSIVISM

• PERENNIALISM

• ESSENTIALISM

• SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM

If your students appear to be more interested in a topic outside your planned lesson for the day, you set aside your lesson plan for that day and take the opportunity to discuss the topic of particular interest to your students. strike the iron while it is hot! Which philosophy governs your action?

• EXISTENTIALISM

• PERENNIALISM

• PROGRESSIVISM

• ESSENTIALISM

“Specialization is knowing more and more about less and less”. Then it is better to be a generalist, claims Teacher Lani. On which philosophy does Teacher Lani lean?

• PROGRESSIVISM

• PERENNIALISM

• ESSENTIALISM

• EXISTENTIALISM

Schools should go back to the basics, they should teach the 3 R’s.

• ESSENTIALISM

• SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM

• PROGRESSIVISM

• PERENNIALISM

Schools should develop in the students’ appreciation of the humanities. This way, they become highly rational and moral.

• ESSENTIALISM

• PROGRESSIVISM

• PERENNIALISM

• SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONISM

In a faculty meeting, the principal told his teachers: we need to improve our school performance in the National Achievement Test. What should we do? The teachers gave varied answers as follows:

1. Let’s give incentives and rewards to students who get a rating of 85%.

2. Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance.

3. Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning.

4. Let’s make use of the experiential methods of teaching.

If you lean toward a progressivist philosophy, with which response do you agree?

• 4

• 2

• 1

• 3

In a faculty meeting, the principal told his teachers: we need to improve our school performance in the National Achievement Test. What should we do? The teachers gave varied answers as follows:

1. Let’s give incentives and rewards to students who get a rating of 85%.

2. Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance.

3. Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning.

4. Let’s make use of the experiential methods of teaching.

Which response/s come/s from a behaviorism?

• 2 AND 4

• 1 AND 3

• 1 AND 2

• 3 AND 4

SITUATION

How a teacher relates to his/ her pupils depends on his/ her concept about him/ her. I a faculty recollection, the teachers were asked to share their thoughts of the learner, their primary customer. What follows are the gist of what were shared:

Teacher Rona- The learner is a product of his environment. Sometimes he has no choice. He is determined by his environment.

Teacher Belen- The learner can choose what he can become despite his environment.

Teacher Ramil- The learner is a social being who learns well through an active interplay with others.

Teacher David- The learner is a rational being. Schools should develop the learner’s rational and moral powers.

If you agree with Teacher Belen, you are more of a/ an .

• PROGRESSIVIST

• ESSENTIALIST

• EXISTENTIALIST

• BEHAVIORIST