...What can Catholic Social Teaching Group do for families in Vietnam? I thought our group is very strong, but actually... Actually our group consists of a dozen guys, a few persons in Saigon, and some in Hanoi! You guys are not even considered a Catholic Association? No, we’re just a small group of laypeople. We go to the church on Sunday afternoon and gather in a parish room. We pray and then share news about the Church and society. There is “no father” at the beginning. Then arrives the father who gives some lecture on the social teaching. We attend Mass until dismissal! Do you learn about the family? Yes, we learn these vital points: 1. The family is the first natural society (Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, 211), the vital cell of society (211), and the sanctuary of life (231); 2. The family makes up the fundamental structure for human ecology, suited to teach and transmit cultural, ethical, social, spiritual and religious values (212 and 238); 3. The family must have priority over society and the State (214); 4. Divorce is a plague on society (225); 5. Homosexual persons are to be fully respected in their human dignity (228); 6. The family is an active participant in social life (246-251); and 7. Society is at the service of the family (252-256). When practicing the CST, do you participate in indirectly serving the family? Yes, we do. The Group’s members when living the values of Freedom, Love, Truth and Justice are already applying the...
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...The teachings of Socrates successfully shaped Ancient Greece into an advanced civilisation. To what extent is this statement correct? In 469BC, one of the most important philosophical influences in the Ancient Greek civilisation was born. Socrates’ teachings would continue to heavily impact on philosophical thought throughout the ages. Socrates began as a stonemason, but quickly made the change to a life pursuing the answers to all moral problems with emphasis on the right conduct by which one should live their life. His teachings attracted groups of young men who adopted his methodologies and became fascinated with the ideas he presented, which although popular with some, were often in conflict with the politicians in Athens at the time. Socrates lived through one of Athens’ most advanced eras and he saw firsthand the rise of the Athenian Empire. He often passed judgment and was highly opinionated on many issues which were putting Athens on the map, including democracy. He also promoted honesty and virtue as key contributors to a happy life. Socrates was one of only a few philosophers to be recognised for his work in his lifetime and this indicates that he must have been significant in some capacity. However, Athens was an ever-expanding empire, which meant that their culture was heavily impacted on by not just Greek people on the inside but also by the countries that they conquered and the foreigners who came to Athens as slaves or traders. These outside influences...
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...an ethical quality, but it is relative to the people involved, it is described in the book as ‘that which is neither excessive nor deficient, and this is not one and the same for all’. One example he uses in the table of virtues is ‘Shame’, in which shamelessness is excessive and shyness is deficient while modesty lies between them and is the doctrine of the mean. In modern times, Scholars have criticised Aristotle’s Virtue ethics for being too relative, vague and self-centred. Many Modern Ethicists have written their own theories of virtue ethics to try and address some of the issues. Aristotle’s teachings of virtue have been criticised by J.L Mackie, Louden and Sidgewick for being too vague for actual application. Sidgewick said that it ‘only indicates the whereabouts of a virtue’. Benjamin Franklin’s Virtue Ethics attempts to address the vagueness of Aristotle’s teachings. Franklin was a utilitarian who believed that all actions should bring about the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’- he believed that in order for this to work everyone must develop certain moral qualities that will help guide them to follow the principle of utility. His list of virtues is comprised of 13 ethical qualities that he considers to be Virtuous in a person- all of which are explained. An example of one would be ‘Chastity’ which he describes as ‘rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness or weakness, or to the...
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...Describe what your role, responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher/trainer/tutor in terms of the teaching/training cycle. My role, responsibilities and boundaries: | - Use clear language at an appropriate level in terms my students will understand. - To be able to motivate students, continually research for new ideas relative to the subject. - To be enthusiastic and passionate as regards to the subject. - Approachable, available and open to discussion. - Manage the learning process from the start through to completion. - Assess students progress and give relevant feedback. - Keep a record of progress and assessments. - Not to become too familiar with students. - Make time available for student support. - Maintain student confidentiality. - Make sure that students welfare issues are addressed. - Students conduct i.a.w. acceptable classroom protocols and behaviour. | Guidance! How do/would you address the following aspects (A to H) when teaching adult learners? A. Assessing learning needs B. Planning and preparing teaching and learning programmes for groups and individuals. C. Developing and using a range of teaching and learning techniques. D. Managing the learning process. E. Providing the learner with support. F. Assessing the outcomes. G. Reflecting upon and evaluating one’s own performance and planning future practice. H. Meeting professional requirements A. Assessing learning needs | - The product required. The outcome of...
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...What does Genesis 1-11 teach regarding the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization? How does this teaching on these topics affect your worldview? In the book of Genesis the bible teaches about the creation, the beginning of the human race, the fall into sin, the destruction of everything because of this and God’s promise to never destroy the Earth again. God created the natural world by speaking it into existence. He put all living things on the land, in the sea and in the sky. He then formed man into his own image and breathed life into him, and his name was Adam. Man was created to rule over all the creatures of the Earth. Adam was given the task of naming all the creatures that were created. Genesis tells us that Adam had no one or nothing that was comparable to himself so God made him a companion. God put Adam into a deep sleep and took a rib from Him. Adam called her woman because she was taken out of man, and God married them. Biblically, the union of marriage is where the two flesh become one. A man is to leave his father and mother to be joined to his wife. Adam and Eve knew nothing but good and knew nothing of sin and shame, at the beginnings of their lives. Unfortunately, this did not last. Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was forbidden by God. Eve ate as the serpent told her and gave some to Adam and then they were instantly aware of their nakedness and were ashamed...
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...’ S G U I D E T O TEACHING ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION INTRODUCTION NEED FOR THE GUIDE The Teaching Assessment and Evaluation Guide provides instructors with starting-points for reflecting on their teaching, and with advice on how to gather feedback on their teaching practices and effectiveness as part of a systematic program of teaching development. As well, the Guide provides guidance on how teaching might be fairly and effectively evaluated, which characteristics of teaching might be considered, and which evaluation techniques are best suited for different purposes. The Teaching Assessment and Evaluation Guide is a companion to the Teaching Documentation Guide (1993), also prepared by the Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (SCOTL). The Documentation Guide (available at the Centre for the Support of Teaching and on the SCOTL website) aims to provide instructors with advice and concrete suggestions on how to document the variety and complexity of their teaching contributions. Teaching is a complex and personal activity that is best assessed and evaluated using multiple techniques and broadly-based criteria. Assessment for formative purposes is designed to stimulate growth, change and improvement in teaching through reflective practice. Evaluation, in contrast, is used for summative purposes to give an overview of a particular instructor’s teaching in a particular course and setting. Informed judgements on teaching effectiveness can best...
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...INTRODUCTION I find it a daunting task to try and articulate my personal philosophy of teaching, when in fact l have no real teaching or facilitation experience. I have been in leadership roles before while sitting on committees and coached youth sporting teams. That being said, this process forces me to examine my own beliefs, intentions and actions as it relates to teaching. This paper will act as a guiding tool to help me develop my particular philosophy of teaching and how l foresee myself when l do encounter the classroom setting. I will present an overview of my results from the Teaching Perspective Inventory (TPI) and relate that to my own beliefs, intentions and actions. SUMMARY This paper will examine my personal philosophy of teaching, along with the results from Pratt’s Teaching Perspectives Inventory. PHILOSOPHY Pratt’s developmental perspective on teaching tries to conceptualize what it means to teach. “A perspective on teaching is an interrelated set of beliefs and intentions that gives direction and justification to our action. It is a lens through which we view teaching and learning” (Pratt, 2002, p. 5). “Perspectives are neither good nor bad. They are simply philosophical orientations to knowledge, learning and the role and responsibility of being a teacher” (Pratt, 2002, p. 14). I don’t know that l could summarize my philosophy into a few short sentences. My philosophy is an all-encompassing set of beliefs and intentions that l want to accomplish...
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...Critical Reflections on Teaching What is reflective teaching? Reflection defined | |[pic]|recognising |[pi| | | | |+ |c] | | |Reflection means | |examining | |the way we teach. | | | |+ | | | | | |ruminating over | | | This involves more than just describing what we do or what we have done. As individuals, each with our own background and experience, we bring certain beliefs, assumptions, knowledge, attitudes and values to teaching. Our teaching takes place in a social setting that has its own unique characteristics, opportunities and constraints. Reflective teaching means exploring the implications of all these complex factors with the intention of understanding and improving our practice. A good place to start is by considering our own pasts, as learners and teachers and reflecting on the beliefs, knowledge and values that we have developed from our experiences. Levels of reflection In a sense, we reflect constantly as we teach, responding to ongoing situations in the classroom as they arise. This is sometimes called reflection-in-action. Reflection-in-action usually happens very fast, perhaps even intuitively...
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...graduate I want to eventually open my own daycare center but before that I will probably get some teaching done first. Researching about the most effective teaching methods will help me run a more beneficial daycare center in the future. My purpose: The purpose of my final research paper is to educate my audience of what the most effective teaching method(s) are. I want my reader to know what the benefits are for children whose daycare teachers use the Montessori teaching method. I will prove to them that the Montessori teaching methods are very beneficial to infant-toddler and primary students and that it should be one of the leading methods used. My working thesis and any assumptions: Childcare providers for children ages 0-4 should follow the Montessori teaching method because teaching methods used in children’s early ages has a long term impact on them. My approach to the subject of my paper: In the structure of my paper I will first define what a childcare/daycare is, what is actually considered to be a daycare. After I will tell about different types of teaching methods used and what some outcomes from previous studies have shown about different ones. I will then prove why the Montessori teaching method is the best one to use for children ages 0-4 and show the benefits that children will have from using this method in the long run. Finally, I will give examples of other teaching methods and compare and contrast them and provide my conclusion. My attended audience: My intended...
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...I considered a career in teaching, I wondered why our education classes had more females than males, if not completely without a male student wanting to teach in the elementary level. My own ideas and questions began to bother me: were men just scared of teaching such a young group of students? Did men think that they were too good to teach in elementary? What was their reason for not wanting to teach at elementary level? Were women just better candidates to teach at this level? I knew that there had to be specific reasons why the populations of men in elementary school have been and continue to be low. In fact, I had to think about my own biases as to why men were not teaching in elementary. When I started this research paper and read the various articles about why men choose not to teach, I found that more often than not, it was because of other people thinking that men were not the best candidates for teaching in elementary than men simply choosing not to work. Society’s ideas about men teaching in elementary, then, are the big reasons why men are not teaching in elementary school. Society’s thinking that male teachers are not real men, parents’ suspicion of male teachers, and society insistence to men that secondary school is a more acceptable area for men to teach are the main reasons that there are not many male teachers in elementary school. Historically, society has determined what job is best for a specific gender. Society tells people what is acceptable to do based...
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...Faculty Development CLINICAL TEACHING SKILLS: A GuIdE for fACILITATorS Notes for facilitators www.londondeanery.ac.uk CLINICAL TEACHING SKILLS: A GuIdE for fACILITATorS NoTES for fACILITATorS INTroduCTIoN To THE NoTES for fACILITATorS This course has been designed to enable clinicians to learn how to apply education theory to their own clinical and teaching practice. The course uses participatory approaches which encourage collaboration and reflection among participants, enabling key challenges for clinical teaching to be explored and strategies to address challenges to be identified. THE fACILITATor roLE It is essential that this role is one of facilitation and not that of a lecturer. It is not essential to have expert knowledge of the topic. What is essential in a facilitator of this workshop are the following. • A robust understanding of clinical teaching practices. • Knowledge of clinical teaching theory. AbouT THIS GuIdE The purpose of this brief guide is to help you facilitate the clinical teaching skills workshops. Contained within it should be all the information that you need to run the workshop on the day. The notes contain copies of the slides that are provided with the course. The slides and notes suggest approaches to sessions. However, you may decide not to use some of the slides and may use instead slides or activities that you develop for individual sessions. • The ability to draw effectively on the experience within the group, in...
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...OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY •Study habits - What are their habits in studying? =She said that she loves reviewing or reading her notebooks every night with the music. •Learning styles - What is their style in learning? =Her style in learning is that, during class hour she used to take notes all important details for her to have a study guide. •Effective teaching style - For them what is a very effective style of teaching? = According to her the effective style of teaching is the one who is really good instructor whom really appreciate the students opinion, or she/he has the ability of building harmonious relationship with the students. JEZA SUMAMPONG I- BIT STUDENT BACHELOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION •Study habits - What are their habits in studying? As a student her study habit is just simple. While she is studying she is listening music because it is her easiest and relaxing way to comprehend what she is reading. •Learning styles - What is their style in learning? As far as she knows there are different learning styles, but her style is she refers to be dependent on the teachers style in delivering his/her lesson because by this she can easily understand the lesson. •Effective teaching style - For them what is a very effective style of teaching? For her there is no effective teaching style because for her it depends to the teacher...
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...TRANSITIONS IN TEACHING STRATEGIES OF HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH Mark Joseph C. Diaz Jerah Mae G. Gilos Kenneth P. Guilan Nerissa E. Sorolla Chapter 1 Introduction to the Study Chapter One has five parts: (1) Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, (2) Statement of the Problem, (3) Significance of the Study (4) Definition of Terms, and (5) Scope and Delimitation of the Study. Part One, Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, justifies the need for the investigation, describes the origin of the study, discusses the importance of selecting the problem, and the reason for conducting it. Part Two, Statement of the Problem, presents the purpose and enumerates the problems answered in the study. Part Three, Significance of the Study, states and tells the importance and benefits that may be derived from the findings. Part Four, Definition of Terms, clarifies the meaning of the terms used in this investigation. Part Five, Scope and Delimitation of the Study, sets the limit and scope of the investigation. Background of the Study Throughout the history, societies have sought to educate people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. Education involves theory and empirical sets of knowledge and learning as well. Teaching is the process of helping their learners economically and efficiently. It is...
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...ETT4/5 - Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up Course of Study Your competence for this course of study will be assessed as you complete the 10 tasks that make up the ETT4/5 performance assessment and the EIO4/5 objective assessment. Introduction Welcome to Effective Teaching Practices. Effective teaching depends on effective planning. Teachers need to devote systematic thought to what they want students to learn and to how students will best acquire knowledge and skills. You will learn how to select, develop, and evaluate instructional materials as well as strategies to use to accomplish specific learning goals. You will plan for effective instruction, and then implement those plans. Interactive teaching includes appropriately responding to all of the details that emerge during the presentation of lessons. Teaching is a process. Teachers plan lessons and then present them. They use information about the lesson presentation to make appropriate changes to improve both student achievement and lesson presentation. Outcomes and Evaluations There are 10 competencies covered by this course of study; they are listed in the "Competencies for Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up (ETT4/5)" page. The list of competencies is a good overview of precisely what you will know and be able to do at the conclusion of this course of study and demonstrate through assessment. Teaching Dispositions Statement Please review the...
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...My current teaching philosophy incorporates motivation, commonality, other’s characteristics, making a difference, and relevance, as well as, values, the learning environment, and student/teacher relationship. First, I think the subject that is being taught should motivate the instructor. Knowing what one’s motivation is will enable a continuous cycle of success in student/teacher interaction. A motivated instructor learns as much as possible about the subject and passes it on to the student. In turn, the student is motivated to apply what is learned. A motivated instructor motivates the student. Ultimately, this will be a common occurrence. Teaching should maneuver the learning system in ways that cause students to accept a profound learning approach in an effort to achieve the course's requirements, allowing the desired course learning results (Myers & Nulty, 2008). Additionally, teaching should be designed by collecting information and formulating various decisions about how the course will be taught (Fink, 2003). The characteristics of others tend to spill over into one’s own teaching methods. Various characteristics of instructors from past experience are of significant worth. The traits of simplicity, clarity, supportiveness, and provision help create an environment conducive to effective learning. For instance the use of simple and clear instructions aides the student in efficiently completing assignments. The support and provision of the instructor shows...
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