Teaching for a Living

Teachers and learners as the two most essential individuals in the educative process. The teachers taking the part of the facilitators and the learners being the actors in the process. In providing quality education, teachers served as the facilitators that lead the learners to discover new concepts through activities giving them first-hand experiences. They are the architects that design differentiated and responsive activities to the varying needs of the learners. Likewise, the learners, as the actors of education, make meaningful connections to their teachers for active learning to happen. They are the doers that realize their full potentials through holistic and practical activities. The teacher-learner relationship is a crucial ingredient for the success of education. It reinforced cooperation for the attainment of the goals in education. Key to this relationship is the mutual respect between the teacher and the students. It is innate for the teachers to provide a nurturi...

Progressive education has been a response to revolutionize how the teaching-learning process is done conventionally. Backed with the empirical modalities of learning by doing and meaningful application of concepts learned to real-life contexts, schools are overhauled to meet the demands of the ever-changing society.  With that, a progressive school must provide opportunities for learners to discover and experience learning on their own, making them the actual managers of their own pace of learning. When learners are given a chance to be at the lead in their learning course, they can discover and apply solutions to the problems they encountered along the way. This leads to the development of the innate tendency to self-regulate. Though providing hands-on and real-life learning experiences for the learners are quite challenging, the ingenuity and creativity of teachers cannot be underestimated. Teachers are trained to improvise and localize instruction fitted to the needs of...