Inspirational Nuggets For Teachers and Parents
1. Basic Education Curriculum
K to 12 – We have to accept it.
We can add but cannot subtract or change.
Too much strategy – little content
Yearn to learn and learn to earn
Students can learn almost anything but we have to provide the environment and the motivation.
Income
Recognition – edify our students good performance.
2. Motivation
Do we teach our students to dream?
Are we happy if our students get an average grades.
Are we unconsciously developing a 75% mentality or culture?
Do we encourage them to work as a team?
Do we teach them to manage failures?
3. Teaching/Learning
What is teaching
What is learning: more or less permanent change in behavior as a result of training, experience and practice
crystallized intelligence
fluid intelligence
practice, experience, training
Interventional
Atmosphere of freedom
Plato – when physical exercise in carried out though compulsion
Filipino teachers talk too much –
lecturing alone is not teaching
lecture is the most popular method of teaching but it gives the least learning
If we teach using all our resources (time, effort and materials) and yet our students don’t learn – we did not teach.
More talk – less learning – less talk – more learning – design activities.
Walk our talk – demand from ourselves before we demand it from our students.
4. Values and Valuing
Parker vs Bic ball pen we demand
Students to study hard
Students to regular and punctual
Honesty
Complaints – our students mga reklamador talaga
Yesterday was the deadline of all complaints
Stop whining and start stewing
Learn not to blame, complain or explain
5. Silence
We teachers talk too much
We as a people are talkative
when Chinese travel – they sleep
when Japanese travel – they read
when Americans travel – they talk
when Filipinos travel – they eat
6. Listening
Peripheral listening
Inactive listening
Active listening
7. Observation: Sherlock Holmes to Watson
You see but you don’t observe.
Observation – see signs where there are none
Good observation leads to discovery. Serendipity too.
8. Relationship
Anak tayo ng Dios
Ikaw, ako at ang mga estudyante natin ay mga anak ng Dios.
Tayong mga teacher ang tingin ng mga bata ay
1. teacher
2. magulang o nakakatandang kapatid
3. kaibigan
Who are the best teachers from a relational point of view:
Sympathetic – yong naramdaman niya ang naramdaman ko.
9. Creativity
Left brain vs right brain
Lateral thinking vs vertical thinking
Divergent vs convergent
Sinistrality – left handedness
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Imagination: The power of imagination is one of the greatest untapped resources in the human arsenal