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Teaching requires passion for the profession, as it is not an easy career and comes with pressures from many stakeholders. However, a passionate teacher can overcome challenges through their desire to teach. As a teacher, it is important to understand that students learn differently and at different paces. Creative lessons are needed to engage students and challenge them to continue their education systematically. Constructivism is a preferred teaching philosophy, as it is based on how people actively construct knowledge through experiences and reflecting on events, influenced by previous ideas. Constructivism emphasizes active learning, socially constructed knowledge, and personal interpretations of lessons according to one's perspectives and prior knowledge.

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Teaching requires passion for the profession, as it is not an easy career and comes with pressures from many stakeholders. However, a passionate teacher can overcome challenges through their desire to teach. As a teacher, it is important to understand that students learn differently and at different paces. Creative lessons are needed to engage students and challenge them to continue their education systematically. Constructivism is a preferred teaching philosophy, as it is based on how people actively construct knowledge through experiences and reflecting on events, influenced by previous ideas. Constructivism emphasizes active learning, socially constructed knowledge, and personal interpretations of lessons according to one's perspectives and prior knowledge.

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Teaching is a passion. If you don’t have that passion, you are in the wrong field.

Being a teacher is not


easy. There is a lot of pressure and demands coming from students, parents, and school officials which
can be overwhelming. But when a teacher has that wholesome desire to teach, it can overcome all the
other baggage that comes with the profession. Teaching is not only a career but a tool to help others
succeed. Its very essence is what pushes a teacher to go above and beyond the expectations of an
educator. That passionate teacher is the type of teacher I am. Education doesn’t end when a certain
concept, idea, ortopic is taught but it’s an ongoing process in which students are consistently building
upon. As a teacher, it needs to be understood that not all students learn equally. Some students learn at
a different pace and different formats of lesson have different effects on students; some lessons might
spark something in the student that other lessons might not. As a teacher, it’s important to find creative
ways to engage students and challenge them so that continue to pursue an education systematically. It
should become part of their lives and to a certain degree, their identity because education never
endsWhat makes a good teacher? There are many factors that determined the answers to this
question. The most dominant factor is the teaching philosophy. It plays a significant role in the teaching
career because it determines what the teacher will teach and how he/she will teach.The teaching should
emphasis on students’ individual needs and their own characters. Everyone is different, such as learning
styles. Thus, the traditional format of teaching won’t work out for the whole student body. The teaching
methods should be variable and fit into individual needs. Also,the size of the classroom should be
considerably small. Thus, the teacher could pay enough attention to each one of the students in the
classroom.Being a teacher at Pulungmasle National High School,I prefer the Constructivism Philosophy.
It is a theory that is based on scientific study and observation on how people learn. It is an approach to
learning that states that people construct their knowledge and understanding of the world by
experiencing events and reflecting on those events (McLeod, 2019). This is by deriving meaning
from those events, something that is influenced by and reconciled with previous experiences and
ideas. Constructivism is characterized by several major principles that include the following:

Learning is an active processUnlike in the traditional passive view of teaching and learning where the
student was a blank slate ready to be filled with knowledge, in constructivism, learners have to
construct their own understanding by being engaged actively with the world around them through
real-world problem solving and experiments (McLeod, 2019). For learners to understand, they
have to make meaningful connections between past knowledge, prior knowledge and the entire
learning process from information received either actively or passively.Knowledge is actively
constructedThe central idea behind constructivism is that learning is actively constructed and individuals
learn by building knowledge from and onto already pre-existing knowledge. This prior knowledge
forms the foundation of newly learned experiences (McLeod, 2019). It dismisses the idea that
knowledge can be innately or passively received.All knowledge is socially constructedThis principle
states that teaching and learning involve sharing and bargaining socially created knowledge
(McLeod, 2019). Learning is something that is done together through interactions. It encourages
active collaboration in the pursuit of learning.Knowledge is personalThis principle negates the view that
knowledge is socially constructed by stating that every learner has their own unique perspective based
on prior value, ideas and knowledge (McLeod, 2019). This means that different learners taking the same
lesson or going through a similar experience will ultimately learn differently according to their own
specific interpretations.Learning exists in the mindLearners constantly develop their unique mental
perceptions of the real world from their own view of that world. Constructivism states that
knowledge is only existent in the mind and does not fit any reality in the real world. Learners
continually modify their own mental perceptions to mirror new information and subsequently make
their own apprehension of reality.There are three main forms of constructivism which are; social
constructivism that is based on the work of Lev Vygotsky, radical constructivism, and cognitive
constructivismbased on Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) work. According to the GSI Teaching and Resource
Centre (2015), cognitive constructivism states that learning is relative to the stage of a learner’s
cognitive development as knowledge is actively constructed on the cognitive structures that are in
existence.A teacher who values students’ participation will uphold constructivism by conducting
experiments, creating discussion groups, organizing excursions, handing out periodical
questionnaires, assigning individual and group projects, holding debate sessions, ensuring that all
students participate in class and emphasizing on journaling by and suggestions from the students.

REFLECTION

The Research Based Learning Models that I use for the classroom instruction are the
following:Cooperative Learning- anchored on Constructivism- the constructivist theory is
basedaround the idea that learners are active participants in their learning journey; knowledge
isconstructed based on experiences. As events occur, each person reflects on their experienceand
incorporates the new ideas with their prior knowledge. Also, this learning approach isanchored
also to Progressivism, an educational movement started by John Dewey that saysthat students learn
through their own experiences. Progressivism revolves around the students'needs, including teaching
students to be good citizens as well as good learners, a conceptknown as focusing on the whole
child.Multiple Intelligences- anchored on Existentialism, a philosophical theory that people arefree
agents who have control over their choices and actions. Existentialists believe that everyindividual is
unique and education must cater to the individual differences. Therefore, theobjective of
education is to enable every individual to develop his unique qualities, to harnesshis potentialities and
cultivate his individualities

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