Teacher Personal Qualities: A View from My Lenses
Resource Teacher: Teacher's Signature: School:
Grade/Year Level: Subject Area: Date:
Procedure:
1. Secure a permit to observe and conduct a survey.
2. Review the list of the Personal Qualities given above.
3. Follow the code given whether you will observe by seeing only or you will observe and interview the
teacher to gather information.
4. Write down in the column of data results the description of the personal qualities that have found
out. If the personal quality is not observed by you or is not revealed in your interview, write not
observed or not manifested.
Observe (0) Data Results
Personal Qualities
Interview (I) I have found out that .…
a. Dignified
Observe
b. Healthy
Observe
c. Spiritual
Observe
Interview
d. Knowledgeable
Observe
e. Humble
Observe
Interview
f. Determined
Observe
Interview
g. Cooperative
Observe
Interview
Activity 2 will focus on the Professional Competencies of the Teacher. You may change your
sample Teacher in Activity 1 with another teacher or you can still observe the same teacher. In case you
will not change your teacher to be observed the same teacher will be your sample for both Activity 1
and Activity 2. Aside from direct observation, you will also do a Survey in Activity 2.
Did you learn from your observation of the teacher? Now let us analyze the information that you have
gathered.
Answer the following questions.
1. In Activity I, what do you consider as the 3 most outstanding significant personal qualities of the teacher you
chose as your case? Why do you consider these as outstanding?
a.________________________________________________________________________________________
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b._______________________________________________________________________________________
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c. _______________________________________________________________________________________
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2. Which of these qualities do you have? Do you think you can fit as a good teacher someday?________Why?
Describe yourself.
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Activity 14.2 Is the Teacher a Professional Teacher?
Resource Teacher: Teacher's Signature: School:
Grade/Year Level: Subject Area: Date:
Procedure:
1. Secure a permit to observe and conduct a survey.
2. Request the following information from the teacher:
a. Name
b. LET License No
c. Evidence of Professional Growth (Masters or Doctorate, Seminars attended, etc.)
3. Request a co-teacher or the head (only one of the 2) to answer the checklist/rating scale about your
sample teacher.
4. Answer the same survey instrument yourself.
5. Compare the answer of the co-teacher or that of the head with your answer on the survey. In what
items do you have the same answer?
6. Show the results in a summary table.
Competencies of the Professional Teacher: A Special Case
Dear Ma'am/Sir:
I am a future teacher and I would like to know the characteristics of a professional teacher. I will be very glad if
you could answer the survey form about your co-teacher
I will keep in confidence your identity, however, please allow me to use the data in my lesson. This is a
requirement in our course, Field Study 1.
Thank you very much.
BEED/BSEd Student
Name of the Teacher:
PRC License No. Grade Level Taught
Answer the following statements based on your OBSERVATION of the teacher. Check Yes or No or Doubtful.
Does the Teacher exhibit
the competence of a
Professional Competence professional teacher?
Check you answer below.
Yes No Doubtful
1. Practices the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
2. Teaches the subject matter very well with mastery
3. Keeps self-updated with educational trends, policies and
curricula
4. Uses varied teaching methods that facilitate learning with
skill and ease
5. Engages the parents and other stakeholders to cooperate as
partners in educating the children
6. Teaches with compassion based on the knowledge and
understanding of the characteristics and needs of diverse
learners
7. Prepares curriculum plans, implements these with innovation in
every lesson
8. Designs or selects and utilizes appropriate assessment strategies
and tools for lessons taught
9. Makes classroom atmosphere physically (arrangement) and
psychologically (friendly, inclusive) safe and secure for learning
10. Serves willingly beyond teaching work by participating in other
extracurricular activities when needed
Name and Signature of the Teacher Informant (Peer)
OR:
Name and Signature of the Supervisor Informant (Head)
AND
Your Name and Signature (Pre-Service Student)
Did you learn from your observation and interview on teacher's professional competences?
Now let us analyze the data.
Answer the following questions
1. In Activity 2, do you consider the Teacher as a Professional Teacher? In what competencies is the
teacher Strong? _________ Weak? _________ Doubtful? __________ Why?
2. Did your answers to the survey form coincide with the answers of the co-teacher or head of the
teacher you observed? Why?
Show here the artifacts of this Episode.
1. Short narrative about the teacher with a description of the personal qualities and professional
characteristics that you have observed. You may request a picture from the teacher.
My Teacher, My Hero
(Picture of the Teacher Observed)
Narrative (about the personal and professional characteristics of the teacher)
Evaluate Your Work Task Field Study 1, Episode 14 – The Teacher as a PERSON and as a PROFESSIONAL
Learning Outcomes:
• describe the personal qualities and competences of effective classroom teachers
• enumerate the professional characteristics of practicing teachers observed as based on
the professional standards and code of ethics for the profession.
Name of FS Student: Date Submitted:
Year & Section: Course:
Learning Episode Excellent Very Satisfactory Satisfactory Needs
4 3 2 Improvement
1
Accomplished All observation One (1) to two (2) Three (3) Four (4) or more
Observation Sheet questions/tasks observation observation observation
completely questions/ tasks questions/tasks not questions/ tasks
answered/ not answered/ answered/ not answered/
accomplished. accomplished. accomplished. accomplished.
Analysis All questions were All questions were Questions were not Four (4) or more
answered answered answered observation
completely; completely; completely; answers questions were not
answers are with answers are clearly are not clearly answered; answers
depth and are connected to connected to not connected to
thoroughly theories; grammar theories; one (1) to theories; more
grounded on and spelling are three (3) than four (4)
theories; grammar free from errors. grammatical/spelling grammatical/
and spelling are errors. spelling errors.
free from error.
Reflection Profound and clear; Clear but lacks Not so clear and Unclear and
supported by what depth; supported shallow; somewhat shallow; rarely
were observed and by what were supported by what supported by what
analyzed observed and were observed and were observed and
analyzed analyzed analyzed
Learning Artifacts Portfolio is Portfolio is Portfolio is not Portfolio is not
reflected on in the reflected on in the reflected on in the reflected on in the
context of the context of the context of the context of the
learning outcomes; learning outcomes. outcomes. learning outcomes;
Complete, well- Complete; well Complete; not not complete; not
organized, highly organized, very organized, relevant organized, not
relevant to the relevant to the to the learning relevant
learning outcome learning outcome outcome
Submission Submitted before Submitted on the Submitted a day Submitted two (2)
the deadline deadline after the deadline days or more after
the deadline
COMMENT/S Rating:
(Based on
Over-all Score transmutation)
TRANSMUTATION OF SCORE TO GRADE/RATING
Score 20 19-18 17 16 15 14 13-12 11 10 9-8 7-below
Grade 1.0 1.25 1.5 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00 3.5 5.00
99 96 93 90 87 84 81 78 75 75 71-Below
Signature of FS Teacher Above Printed Name Date
