My Concrete Experience 1. Who am I as a person? Do I have personal qualities that would make me a better teacher someday? 2. With the use of the checklist find out your personal characteristics which would help you make become a good teacher. The qualities listed are few of the many attributes needed but the list given you would suffice.
Name:____________________School:____________________ Sem ____________
AM I THIS PERSON PERSON
_____1. I am mentally alert
____14. I accept responsibility and do it well
_____2. I make correct decisions. _____3. I give attention to details.
____15. I utilize to the maximum every material
_____4. I analyze every situation.
____16. I have happy disposition.
_____5. I am quick to make solutions.
____17. I appreciate other people.
_____6. I maintain poise.
____18. I am tolerant of other persons.
_____7. I remain undisturbed under pre-sure.
____19. I am kind and sympathetic. ____20. I help voluntarily.
_____8. I hold my anger. ____21. I adjust to different solutions. _____9. I am calm in the midst of chaos. ____ 10. I maintain dignity in all circumstances
____22. I look at the brighter side of my life ____23. I enjoy the company of others.
_____11. I am very imaginative. ____24. I laugh on at on my mistakes. _____12. I create new things. _____13.I like try out new things.
____25. I can adjust to any group as a member
____26. I think that my suggestions are not correct ____27. I do not consider self as better than others
____44. I am simple. Beautiful/handsome ____45. I am appealing to others. ____46. I treat everybody with courtesy.
____28. I treat everybody fairly. ____47. I behave appropriate in ____29. I see others opinion as different occasions from mine ____48. I select social function to attend. ____30. I give equal chance for everybody to be heard ____49. I use to appropriate language.. ____31. I work beyond objective set.
____50. I adjust comfortably in a crowd.
____32. I do things without being told.
____51. I have deep concern for others.
____33. I do not give up easily on the task
____52. I am always willing to share. ____53. I volunteer to do task for others.
____34. I set one goals for oneself. ____54. I give up personal time for the ____35. I work with a sense of urgency. group ____36. I feel sure of what I do.
____55. I work for the group even without assurance return.
____37. I work for others. ____56. I am fair in giving judgments. ____38. I initiate to the job for all. ____39. I assume responsibility with confidence
____57. I am consistent in words and actions ____58. I am punctual in attendance.
____40. I work to succeed. ____41. I am pleasant in action, words and appearance
____59. I am sincere in giving suggestions ____60. I extend help to many others.
____42. I am clean and neat as a person ____43. I dress up appropriately
Personal Attributes
Cluster of items
1.Intelligence 2.Emotional Stability 3.Resourcefulness 4.Compassion 5.Bouyancy 6.Objectiveness 7.Self-motivation 8.Self-confidence 9.Pleasantness 10.Refinement 11.Cooperativeness 12.Reliability
1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 35-40 41-45 46-50 51-55 56-60
Number of Check Marks 5 3 4 4 5 5 1 1 4 3 3 2
Interpretation Very High Average High High Very High Very High Very Low Very Low High Average Average Low
My Observations Your concrete experience, enabled you to describe, what you are as a person. The qualities reflect who you are. Make a similar observation of ten active teachers in a school. Your observation will be done through a survey and will produce empirical evidences. This observation method will enhance your skills to collect data, like when you doing research
You will be provided with a survey checklist for you to reproduce 10 copies for your 10 respondent teachers. (They are on the last page of this workbook). Make proper request from these teacher who will become your respondents. Tabulate the results in the matrix found below:
Personal Attributes 1.Intelligence
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
T6
T7
T8
T9
T10 Ave. Desc.
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
2.Emotional Stability 3.Resourcefulness
5
4
3
5
5
3
4
5
3
3
4
5
4
3
5
5
3
5
5
5
5
5
4.Compassion
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
5
5
Very high high Very high Very high
5.Bouyancy
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
6.Objectiveness
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
7.Self-motivation
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
5
5
8Self-confidence 9.Pleasantness
5 5
5 5
4 5
4 5
5 5
5 5
4 5
4 5
5 5
5 5
4 5
10.Refinement
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
11.Cooperativeness 5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
12.Reliability
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
Very high Very high Very high High Very high Very high Very high Very high
The Observed Information Procedure: 1. To get the average, add the scores of the ten teachers and divide by 10. 2. Look at the legend in your own checklist, and determine the description of the average. 3. Study the results.
Questions: 1. Which of the twelve attributes is the highest among the teachers? Almost all of the attributes. 2. Which of the twelve attributes is the lowest among the teachers? None, They’re all very high and high. 3. How many teachers are low in emotional stability? None of the teachers reflected low in emotional stability but four have average score. The rest are very high and high. 4. How many teachers are high in compassion? All of them.
5. What six attributes are found to be strong among the teachers? Almost all of the attributes but the attributes intelligence, objectiveness, pleasantness, refinement, confinement and realiability stood-out. 6. What six attributes are found to be weak among the teachers? None. 7. What interesting observations can you spot from the other data not asked?
My Reflections 1. Why are some teachers reported to have bumped a learner’s head on the wall or made a child swallow scratch paper or pencil filings? What attribute do you think is low for this teacher? We have been hearing reports regarding abuses, maltreatment violations done by teachers. Examples of these are, Bumping students head on the wall, letting a child swallow scratch paper or throwing eraser into students. The reason for these unlawful actions, probably lack of composure or meltdown of teachers. Meltdown in the sense that teachers have already lost their composure and broke into anger. As we all know, teaching endails bigger and deeper responsibility. The mere handling of numbers of students brings pressure. The everyday teaching, thinking on new lessons,concepts and so when students have done something that could somehow irritates teachers,sometimes it could lead into losing anger management resulting to punishing students. Teachers who are doing these stuffs. Lack or have low emotional stability. 2. Why do you think some teachers are better loved by students than others? Teachers who are better loved by students are those who carry themselves higher set of moral standards and values prioritize ethical values and do not make actions that could somehow downgrade their reputations. These are the types of teachers that set moral ascendancy as their platform in teaching. Traditionally, students love their teachers or consider them their favorites when teachers show valiancy. When they are soft spoken, barely show anger and understanding. In contrast, teachers that are hated by students are those who
show the opposite characteristics mentioned. Those who are stereotyped “terror”. 3. If you were to choose, Which personal attributes should all teachers posses? Why?
For me, all the personal attributes being rated in the questionnaire must be possessed by the teachers. The only reason I think is that those attributes are what defines a developed and capable teachers.
My Affirmed Concepts
After reflecting on this episode and recalling my previous subjects, I have realized that there are several concepts in the teaching profession about personal attributes I learned that has been affirmed and confirmed, examples of which are given below: 1. The concept of teaching as an ideal profession has remained strong, but it has been accentuated by the need for meeting the challenges of the times which can be addressed through quality teaching 2. Teaching as an act itself. It involves the common activities in the classroom and the teaching strategies and techniques, but it focuses on the intent to make teaching work the full advantage of the learners by effective interaction of teacher and students in the understanding of a particular subject matter
My Future Application
Using what I have learned in this episode, when I become a teacher, I should…
Be one who is not just intelligent enough to share but someone with such a very good personality to inspire. Teaching is like no other professions. As a future educator, you wear many hats. You will, to name but of a few of the roles teachers assume in
carrying out their duties, be a communicator, a disciplinarian, a conveyor of information, an evaluator, a classroom manager, a decision maker, a role model and a surrogate parent. Eventually, but teaching is more than just sharing, its all about inspiring. Inspiration drives motivation that people get inspired as your actions touch their lives.
