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LESSON 1: SOCIETY AND TEACHER - How a learner/person must be taught to

come close to the truth
WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL?
- What is good and true must be therefore
- possesses skills and competence Is one
taught
that conforms to the technical or ethical
standards of a profession SOCIETY AND YOU

TWO DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF AN “a study on Pre-service Elementry Teacher

EFFECTIVE TEACHER Training“ - Rosita L. Navarro, et .al in 1994

Personal Qualities Professional Qualities

COMMUNITY PERCEPTION ON THE ROLE OF
refer to the qualities refer to the teacher’s
TEACHERS IN COMMUNITY
that stem from the knowledge of the
teacher’s personality, subject matter, his/her Teachers are perceived to be:
interests, attitudes, understanding of the - Very important in a community
and beliefs; and his/her psychological and - Respected in community
behavior and working educational principles - Help in the community to some extent
relationships with and his/her
his/her students and understanding of the COMMUNITY PERCEPTION ON BELIEFS AND
peers teaching profession ATTITUDES ABOUT TEACHERS AND
TEACHING
ELEMENTS OF A PROFESSION
The community respondents strongly agree that
• Initial professional education
teacher:
• Licensing
• The community respondents strongly
• Continuing professional growth
agree that teacher
• Membership in a professional society
• Are second parents
• Code of ethics
• Are assets to the community
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES
DEMANDS OF SOCIETY FROM A
1. mastery of subject matter PROFESSIONAL TEACHER
2. Understanding of the learners
• To teach well is what society primarily
3. Sincerity towards the learners
demands from teacher.
4. Knowledge of the teaching principles and
• The learning of the learner is the teachers’
skills
main concern Is the single most
5. General understanding of the different
important factor in the learner’s learning.
branches of knowledge
• A licensed professional who possesses
6. Appreciation of the teaching profession
dignity and reputation with high moral
FORMULATING YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF values as well as technical and
EDUCATION professional competence.
Other roles – tutor, nurse, guidance counselor,
What does a philosophy of education include? community leader, resource speaker, consultant
- The human person, learner and the
educated person

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MODELS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING • Establish learning environments that are

responsive to learner diversity. Interact
CHARLOTTE DANIELSON FRAMEWORK FOR
with national and local curriculum
TEACHING
requirements
• Planning and preparation
• The classroom environment QUALITY TEACHERS IN THE PHILIPPINES NEED
• Instruction TO EXHIBIT THE FOLLOWINGCHARACTERISTICS
• Professional responsibilities
The community respondents strongly agree that
teacher:
JAMES STRONG – teaching effectiveness
• Apply a variety of assessment tools and
performance evaluation system
strategies in monitoring, evaluating,
• Professional knowledge
documenting, and reporting learners
• Instructional planning
needs, progress and achievement.
• Instructional delivery
• Establish school- community
• Assessment of/for learning
partnerships aimed at enriching the
• The learning environment
learning environment as well as the
• Professional
community’s engagement in the
• Student Progress
educative process.
THE PHILIPPINE PROFESSIONAL STANDARD • Uphold professional ethics,
FOR TEACHERS (PPST) accountability, and harmonious
relationships with stakeholders.
• This is the revised National Competency
• Value personal growth and professional
Based Teacher Standards (NCBTS).
development and exhibit high personal
• Give teacher professional competencies
regard for the profession by maintaining
in seven domains.
qualities that uphold the dignity of
• 37 strands 148 performance indicators for
teaching such as caring attitude, respect
4 career stages.
and integrity.
QUALITY TEACHERS IN THE PHILIPPINES NEED TO TWELVE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN
EXHIBIT THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS EFFECTIVE TEACHER
The community respondents strongly agree that • Prepared
teacher: • Positive
• Mastery of content knowledge and its • Hold high expectations
interconnectedness within and across • Creative
curriculum areas, couple with a sound • Fair in handling students
and critical understanding of the • Display a personal touch
application of theories and principles of • Cultivate a sense of belonging
teaching and learning. • Compassionate
• Provide learning environments that are • Have a sense of humor
safe, secure, fair and supportive in order • Respect students
to promote learner responsibility and • Forgiving
achievement. • Admit mistakes

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MORALITY • Being a virtuous person

• Being a morally mature person
As defined by one textbook author,
morality refers to the “quality of human acts by VALUES FORMATION AND YOU
which we call them right or wrong, good or evil”
TRANSCENDENT VALUE
(Paniso,1964). Your human action is right when it
According to the idealist group,
conforms to the norm, rule, or law of morality.
Transcendent values are values that remained
Otherwise, it is said to be wrong.
unchanged amidst changing times. Transcendent
FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLE because they are beyond changing times, beyond
space and people. Examples of these are values of
The word principle comes from the Latin
love, care, and concern for our fellowmen.
word “princeps” which means a beginning, a
source. A principle is that on which something is VALUES ARE CAUGHT AND TAUGHT
based, founded, originated, and initiated. A
Values are both caught and taught. We
foundational moral principle is, therefore, the
may not be able to hear our fathers’ advice do not
universal norm upon which all other principles on
smoke” because what he does (he himself
the rightness or wrongness of an action is based.
smokes) speaks louder than what he says. The
THE FOUNDATIONAL MORAL PRINCIPLE IS living examples of good men and women at home,
CONTAINED IN THE NATURAL LAW. school and society have far greater influence on
our value formation than those well-prepared
• For theists, it is man’s share in the Eternal
lectures on values excellently delivered by experts
Law of God...”
who may sound like “empty gongs and clanging
• It is the law written in the hearts of men
cymbals”.
(Romans 2:15)
• St. Thomas defines it as “the light of VALUE FORMATION INCLUDES FORMATION
natural reason, whereby we discern IN THE COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND
• what is good and what is evil...an imprint BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS
on us of the divine light...”
• Values have a cognitive dimension. We
• It is the law that says: “Do good and avoid
must understand the value that we want
evil.”
to acquire. We need to know why we must
The Teacher as a person of good moral character.
value such.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS • Values are in the affective domain of
objectives. In themselves they have an
As laid down in the preamble of our Code
affective dimension.
of ethics of Professional Teachers, teachers are
• Values also have a behavioral dimension.
duly licensed professionals who possess dignity
In fact, living by the value this is the true
and reputation with high moral values as well as
acid test if we really value like honesty.
technical and professional competence.
VALUES HAVE COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND
CHRISTIAN AUTHORS DESCRIBE FOUR WAYS
BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS
OF DESCRIBING GOOD MORAL CHARACTER
Since values are caught, it is up to you
• Being fully human
how to enrich yourself with values that could help
• Being a loving person

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you to be a better person. You have to grow in 2. Spiritual Values

knowledge and in wisdom and in your sensitivity Values independent of the whole sphere
and openness to the variety of value experiences of the body and of the environment
in life. • Grasped in spiritual acts of preferring,
loving and hating
VALUE FORMATION IS A TRAINING OF THE
1. Aesthetic values: beauty against
INTELLECT AND WILL
2. ugliness
Your value formation in essence is a 3. Values of right and wrong
training of your intellect and will, your cognitive 4. Values of pure knowledge
and rational appetitive powers, respectively. Your
intellect discerns a value and presents it to the will 1. Values of the Holy
as a right or wrong value. appear only regarding objects
intentionally given as “absolute objects”
VIRTUOUS VERSUS VICIOUS LIFE AND THEIR
1. Belief
EFFECT ON THE WILL
2. Adoration Bliss
In short, a virtuous life strengthens you to
TEACHING AS VOCATION, MISSION, AND
live by the right values and live life of abundance
PROFESSION
and joy while a vicious lead you to perdition and
misery Teaching as your vocation
- Teaching is a vocation. Vocation comes
MAX SCHELER’S HIERARCHY OF VALUES
from the Latin word “vocare” which
Max Scheler outlined a hierarchy of means to call. Based on the etymology of
values. Our hierarchy of values is shown in our the word, vocation, therefore, means a
preferences and decisions call. If there is a call, there must be a caller
and someone who is called.
SCHELER’S HIERARCHY OF VALUES
ARRANGED FROM THE LOWEST TO THE Teaching as your mission
HIGHEST - The word mission came from the Latin
4. Pleasure Values word “misio” which means “to send”. You
The pleasant against the unpleasant; the are called to be a teacher and you are
agreeable against the disagreeable sent into the world to accomplish a
1. Sensual feelings mission, to teach. Teaching is your
2. Experiences of pleasure or pain mission means it is the task entrusted to
you in this world. If it is your assigned task,
3. Vital Values then you naturally have to prepare
values pertaining to the well-being either yourself for it. You have embarked in a
of the individual or of the community. Ex. Health & mission that calls for a continuing
Vitality professional education.
• Values of vital feeling
1. Capability Teaching as your profession
2. Excellence - Teaching is also a profession. It is our way
of rendering service to humanity.

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THE QUALITY OF OUR PROFESSIONAL

SERVICE TO IS DETERMINED TO A VERY
GREAT EXTENT ON THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF
PROFESSION WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1. Our long and arduous period of

preparation
2. A striving for excellence
3. A dedication to the public interest, and
4. Commitment to moral and ethical values.
If we give professional quality service,
then mediocrity has no place. If we live up
to our name as a professional teacher, a
meaningful and fulfilled life will not be far
behind.

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LESSON 3: HEALTH EDUCATION programs to meet those needs, and then

educating that community on how to
What is Health education? address unhealthy behaviors and lifestyle
- Health education is one strategy for choices, such as smoking and excessive
implementing health promotion and alcohol consumption.
disease prevention programs. - A trained professional who works with
- Health education provides learning groups in community settings or with
experiences on health topics. individuals to help them understand how
- Health education strategies are tailored to live a healthy lifestyle.
for their target population.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Importance of Health toward Overall Wellness
1. Achieve Better Immunity - Staying active The role of a health educator is varied and
helps you stay in shape, manage your vast, involving working with both children and
weight, boost immunity, and increase adults and being committed to instilling healthy
your energy level. habits into communities and individuals.
2. Improve Mood - Having a healthy - Assessing the needs of the community
lifestyle fuels you to be energetic. This you serve
boosts your mood and confidence. Plus, - Helping people access relevant
when you’re feeling healthy, you can have information relating to health concerns
a better outlook in life because you have - Working with people to manage existing
the strength to face and overcome stress. health conditions
3. Boost Energy - As mentioned earlier, - Developing and facilitating workshops
when you take care of your overall health, and programs to address the health
it will boost your energy. You can achieve needs of patients
this by having a balanced diet, doing - Disseminating relevant information
regular exercise, and sleeping right. face pertaining to health and wellness to those
and overcome stress. in the community
4. Prevent Diseases - It’s no secret that if we - Offering one-on-one support to those
don’t want to get sick, we need to make with the greatest needs
an effort to take care of our overall health. - Consulting with education professionals,
5. Live Longer Life - People want to have a physicians, and medical centers
longer healthy life. Hence, it’s important - Collecting and analyzing data on a
to put emphasis on living a lifestyle with a particular community to inform future
proper diet and healthy routine. You can programs and services
achieve longevity if you decide to live
healthy by adopting new healthy habits. CORE SKILLS

What is a health educator? Health educators hone a variety of skills

- By: Derek "MCDREAMY" shepherd from interpersonal to organizational to technical.
- Part of the role is assessing the needs To land a health educator job, work on gaining and
within a community and developing improving the following skills and qualities:

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1. Time management such, there is likely to be an increase in

2. Organization and prioritization the need for these types of services.
3. Computer skills (internet, database, and - Career advancement is possible with
relevant software) experience and the proper education to
4. Leadership more senior levels, such as a senior health
5. Understanding cultural diversity educator or supervisor. It may also be
6. Ability to speak an additional language possible to specialize or become self-
7. Communication (written and verbal) employed, working at a consultant level.
8. Problem-solving
9. Critical thinking
10. Cultural and diversity Awareness
11. Patience and empathy
12. Public speaking
13. Teaching

WHERE DO HEALTH EDUCATORS WORK?

Health educators gain employment in

various work settings, including hospitals,
government agencies, corporations, colleges and
universities, and private practices. The figures for
typical settings for health educator jobs according
to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics are as
follows:
- 24% - Government
- 7% - Outpatient care centers
- 7% - Individual and family
services
- 21% - Hospitals
- 7% - Religious, grant-funded,
civic, and professional
organizations

JOB OUTLOOK

- The job outlook for this position is positive,

with an expected growth rate of 17
percent between 2020 and 2030, which
is much faster than most occupations.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has further
expedited the focus on health issues. As

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