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Article 11: The Teacher As A Person (Poem)

This document is a study guide from Pangasinan State University for a course on the Teaching Profession. It contains an assignment to choose one of the 11 Articles of the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers and present the characteristics of the professional teacher described in that article through a song or poem. The response provides a poem about Article 11: The Teacher as a Person. The poem describes how teachers are not defined solely by their skills and knowledge, but also by who they are as individuals. It notes that meaningful change in teachers happens slowly, as teacher growth is influenced by their life experiences and personal backgrounds, not just their work. The poem emphasizes that while teaching is important, it is not the only part of

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Article 11: The Teacher As A Person (Poem)

This document is a study guide from Pangasinan State University for a course on the Teaching Profession. It contains an assignment to choose one of the 11 Articles of the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers and present the characteristics of the professional teacher described in that article through a song or poem. The response provides a poem about Article 11: The Teacher as a Person. The poem describes how teachers are not defined solely by their skills and knowledge, but also by who they are as individuals. It notes that meaningful change in teachers happens slowly, as teacher growth is influenced by their life experiences and personal backgrounds, not just their work. The poem emphasizes that while teaching is important, it is not the only part of

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Pangasinan State University

College of Arts and Education


Teacher Education Department
Urdaneta, Pangasinan

Name: __Aira Mae M. Mambag


Date: _Nov 18 , 2021________________
Course, Year and Section: __BSED Fil_______________
Instructor: _Ms. Diane Josephine Velasco_______________
Subject: The _Teaching Profession____________________
Study Guide No.: 5
Learning Activity: _1___

Answer:
Choose 1 article among 11 Articles of the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers. Present the
characteristics of the professional teacher given in the article you chose by a song or poem.

Article 11: The Teacher as a Person (poem)

Teachers are more than mere bundles of knowledge, skill, and technique. There is more to
developing as a teacher than learning new skills and behaviours. As teachers sometimes say to
their students, they are not wheeled out of a cupboard at 8.30 am in the morning and wheeled
back in at 4.00 pm. Teachers are people too. You cannot understand the teacher or teaching
without understanding the person that the teacher is. And you cannot change the teacher in
fundamental ways, without changing the person the teacher is, either. This means that
meaningful or lasting change will almost inevitably be slow.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Teachers become the teachers they are not just out of habit. Teaching is bound up with their
lives, their biographies, with the kinds of people they have become.

The teacher’s gender is another factor, in particular the way that teaching and work in general
for men and women are often bound up with very different sorts of lives and interests.This view
of the teacher as a person has crucial implications for our understandings of change,
professional development, and working relationships between teachers and their colleagues.

We want to focus on two of these implications: the ways we often misjudge the competence,
commitment, and capacity of our colleagues; and the excessive and unrealistic expectations we
sometimes have of our teachers concerning their involvement in schools and their commitment
to change.

A second sense in which reform often glosses over the personal lives, interests, and
backgrounds of teachers concerns the expectations we have for change and commitment.
Teaching is very important. However, there is more to life than school.
Life interests and responsibilities beyond teaching must also be recognised. In our enthusiasm
to involve staff more and more in the life of the school, and to commit them to change within it,
we should not forget the other legitimate calls on their time and commitments, which in the long
run may well make them better people and teachers for it.

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