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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region III- CENTRAL LUZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF PAMPANGA
CLUSTER II
PULUNGMASLE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
GUAGUA, PAMPANGA
REFLECTION / JOURNAL ENTRY THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE APPLICATION
OF A LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
IN THE LESSON PLAN OR COMMUNITY WORK
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, or topic 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 ends
What 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:
School ID: 300903
Address: Capilla, Pulungmasle, Guagua, Pampanga
Email Address: r3pamp.300903@deped.gov.ph
Learning is an active process
Unlike 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 constructed
The 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 constructed
This 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 personal
This 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 mind
Learners 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 constructivism based on Jean Piaget’s (18961980) 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
RD G. David
Teacher
School ID: 300903
Address: Capilla, Pulungmasle, Guagua, Pampanga
Email Address: r3pamp.300903@deped.gov.ph
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