Course Outline EDUC 414 The Teaching Profession
Course Outline EDUC 414 The Teaching Profession
Course Outline EDUC 414 The Teaching Profession
COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title: Lecture: Laboratory: Credit Units:
THE TEACHING PROFESSION 3 units None 3 units
Course Code:
EDUC
Course Description: This course deals with the teacher as a person and as a professional within the context of national and global teachers’ standards and educational philosophies. It will include professional ethics, core values,
and awareness of professional rights, privileges and responsibilities as well as the teachers’ role in the society as a transformative agent of change.
Course Outcome: At the end of the course, a student will be able to:
1. Explain the importance of the teaching profession
2. Demonstrate desirable attributes and values coupled with organized and timely methodical teaching approaches
3. Practice positive personal, social and emotional growth as an educator
4. Initiate self-directed activities and knowledge-search activities to improve one’s potentials as a teacher
Course Prerequisite: Contact Hours/Week:
None 3 hours
COURSE OUTLINE AND TIME FRAME
THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Prelim Period Content/Subject Matter Midterm Content/Subject Matter Final Period Content/Subject Matter
Period
Week 1 Orientation Week 7 Learning Resources Week 13 Personal Qualities of Early Childhood Educators
Week 8
Week 2 The Concept of Teaching Developing Curriculum Guides Week 14 A Collaborative Effort: Team Teaching
Week 9
Week 3 The Learning Environment Assessment Techniques Week 15 Evaluating Teachers
Week 10
Week 4 The Teacher Professional Growth and Advancement Week 16 Preparation for Team Teaching
Week 11
Week 5 Approaches to Teaching Professionalism in the Classroom Week 17 Team Teaching Demonstration
Week 12
Week 6 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION MIDTERM EXAMINATION Week 18 FINAL EXAMINATION
ACADEMIC HONESTY
1. Academic honesty, as expected of every student, is important to the process of education and to upholding high ethical standards. Acts of cheating, plagiarism, inappropriate use of technology, or any other kind of unethical
behavior, may subject the student to necessary academic disciplinary measures and penalties including dismissal.
2. All work required for submission for purposes of evaluation in a course, including journals, tests, term papers, position papers, must represent only the work of the student unless certain indications like pertaining to group or
dyadic activity is otherwise stipulated.
3. Materials cited and/or taken from the work of others, and used as reference and literary supplement must be acknowledged. Particular materials submitted to fulfill requirements in one course may not be submitted in another
course without prior approval of the instructor(s). It is a thrust that students be encouraged to practice ingenuity in producing outputs.
ATTENDANCE REGULATIONS
1. Students enrolled in the subject are expected to attend each and every scheduled meeting and to be present for the full class period. Absenteeism and tardiness, regardless of cause, are a threat to academic achievement. These
cases will be addressed accordingly.
2. A student who is absent from a class is responsible, nevertheless, for all material covered during the class period. The student is also subject to appropriate consequences if a test, quiz, recitation, homework assignment, or any
other activity falls on the day of absence unless the student is granted an excused absence. Excused absences may be granted to students who participate in extra-curricular activities, however, due process is observed.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
All tasks and major exams and evidences of performance assessments are to be compiled by the students as part of their portfolio and must be submitted to the instructor before the end of the semester as part of the
assessment. A curriculum guide and team teaching demonstration is a part of the requirement of the course.
GRADING SYSTEM: REFERENCES:
Tasks 60%
Quizzes/Seatwork 15% 1. Gordon, A. (2011). Beginnings and Beyond. United States: CENGAGE Learning.
Recitation/Participation 15% 2. Salandanan, G. (2012). Teaching and the Teacher. Manila: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.
Attendance 10% 3. Leviste, J. (2010). How to Teach the Filipino Preschool. Manila: REX Book Store, Inc.
Output/Lab Work 20% 4. Pabalan, Victorina S. (2010). Managing Preschool Program. Manila: REX Book Store, Inc.
(Assignments, Journals, Projects, Oral and Written Reports) DIGITAL RESOURCES:
1. https://www.ted.com/talks
Major Examinations 40% 2. https://eric.ed.gov/
(Prelim, Midterm, Finals) 100% 3. https://ejournals.ph/
4. http://ched.gov.ph/
5. http://www.deped.gov.ph/
6. www.naeyc.org
Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:
MARCIA NINA C. SALVADOR, LPT, M.Ed. DANIEL B. AMBROCIO, LPT, MAE JOCELYN Q. BOBADILLA, MBA
Professor Area Chair – Education and Liberal Arts Program Dean