My Concrete Experience

1. WHO AM I AS A PERSON? DO I HAVE PERSONAL QUALITIES THAT WOULD MAKE

ME A BETTER TEACHER SOMEDAY?

2. WITH THE USE OF THE CHECKLIST FIND OUT YOUR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
WHICH WOULD HELP YOU MAKE BECOME A GOOD TEACHER. THE QUALITIES
LISTED ARE FEW OF THE MANY ATTRIBUTES NEEDED BUT THE LIST GIVEN YOU
WOULD SUFFICE.

LOOK INTO YOURSELF VERY WELL AND ANSWER EACH ITEM VERY HONESTLY.
ALL YOUR ANSWERS ARE CORRECT, SO YOU DO NEED TO WORRY.

NAME: MARK LEO D. HAPITAN SCHOOL: CAPIZ STATE UNIVERSITY SEM: 1ST

AM I THIS PERSON?
Bilbao, 2010

Below are indicators of person qualities which maybe describe you. Place a / mark on the
blank each item if the indicator fits you most of the time or an x mark if the description does not
fit you most of the time.

√ 1. I am mentally alert.
√ 2. I make correct decision.
√ 3. I give attention to details.
√ 4. I analyze every situation.
√ 5. I am quick to make solution.
6. I maintain poise.
√ 7. I remain undisturbed under pressure.
√ 8. I hold my anger.
√ 9. I am calm in the midst of chaos.
√ 10. I maintain dignity in all circumstances.
√ 11. I am very imaginative.
√ 12. I create new things.
√ 13. I like to try out new things.
√ 14. I accept responsibility and do it well.
√ 15. I utilize to the maximum every material.
√ 16. I have happy disposition.
√ 17. I appreciate other people.
√ 18. I am tolerant of other persons.
√ 19. I am kind and sympathetic.
√ 20. I help voluntarily.
√ 21. I adjust to different situation.
√ 22. I look at the brighter side of life.
√ 23. I enjoy company of others.
√ 24. I laugh at my own mistakes.
√ 25. I can adjust to any group as a member.
26. I think that my suggestions are not always correct.
27. I do not consider self as a better than others.
√ 28. I treat everybody fairly.
√ 29. I see other’s opinion as different from mine.
√ 30. I give equal chance for everybody to be heard.
√ 31. I work beyond the objectives set.
√ 32. I do things without being told.
√ 33. I do not give up easily on the task.
√ 34. I set high goals for oneself.
√ 35. I work with a sense of urgency.
√ 36. I feel sure of what I do.
√ 37. I work for others.
√ 38. I initiate to do job for all.
√ 39. I assume responsibility with confidence.
√ 40. I work to succeed.
√ 41. I am pleasant in action, words and appearance.
√ 42. I am clean and neat as a person.
√ 43. I dress up appropriately.
44. I am simple, beautiful/handsome.
45. I am appealing to others.
√ 46. I treat everybody with courtesy.
√ 47. I behave appropriately.
√ 48. I select social functions to attend.
√ 49. I use appropriate language.
√ 50. I adjust comfortably in a crowd.
 √ 51. I have deep concern for others.
√ 52. I am always willing to share.
√ 53. I volunteer to the task for others.
√ 54. I give up personal time for the group.
√ 55. I work for the group even without assurance in return.
√ 56. I am fair in giving judgment.
√ 57. I am consistent in words and actions.
58. I am punctual in attendance.
√ 59. I am since in giving suggestions.
√ 60. I extend help to many others.
Number of checklist in each cluster (Min-1 to Max-5)

Personal Attributes Cluster of Items Numbers of Interpretation

Check Marks
1. Intelligence 1-5 5 Very High

2. Emotional Stability 6-10 4 Average

3. Resourcefulness 11-15 5 Very High

4. Compassion 16-20 5 Very High

5. Buoyancy 21-25 5 Very High

6. Objectiveness 26-30 3 High

7. Self-motivation 31-35 5 Very High

8. Self-confidence 36-40 5 Very High

9. Pleasantness 41-45 3 Average

10. Refinement 46-50 5 Very High

11. Cooperativeness 51-55 5 Very High

12. Reliability 56-60 4 Average

Legend for Interpretation: 5—Very High; 4—Average, 3—High; 2—Low; 1—Very Low
 The Observations
Your concrete experience, enabled to describe, what you are as a person. The qualities
reflect who you are. Make a similar observation of ten active teachers in a school. Your
observation will be done through a survey and will produce empirical evidences. This
observation will be skills to collect date, like when you doing research.

You will be provided with a Survey checklist for you to reduce 10 copies for your 10
respondent teachers. (They are on the last page of this Workbook). Make proper request from
these teachers who will become your respondent.

TABULATE THE RESULTS IN THE MATRIX FOUND BELOW:

The Observe Information

PERSONAL SCORES OF CHECKMARKS FOR EACH CLUSTER Ave Desc

ATTRIBUTES

T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10
1. Intelligence 5 3 4 4 5 5 4 5 3 5 4.3 Average
2. Emotional Stability 2 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 5 3 3.7 Average
3. Resourcefulness 4 3 4 3 4 2 4 3 4 4 3.5 Average
4. Compassion 4 5 4 4 5 4 4 2 4 5 4.1 Average
5. Buoyancy 3 4 4 5 4 3 3 5 4 4 3.9 Average
6. Objectiveness 4 4 4 2 2 3 4 5 4 2 3.4 High
7. Self-motivation 2 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 5 3 3.4 High
8. Self-confidence 4 4 4 3 5 3 4 2 4 3 3.6 Average
9. Pleasantness 5 3 4 5 4 3 4 4 5 4 4.1 Average
10. Refinement 3 3 5 4 4 5 4 3 5 3 3.9 Average
11. Cooperativeness 3 3 3 3 5 5 4 3 4 4 3.7 Average
12. Reliability 5 4 4 5 5 3 4 4 4 3 4.1 Average

Procedure:

1. To get the average, add the scores of the ten teachers and divide by 10.
2. Look at the legend in your own checklist, and determine the description of the
average.
3. Study the results.
Question:

1. Which of the twelve attributes is the highest among the teachers?

 Based on the results, intelligence has the highest attribute that the teacher must.
2. Which of the twelve attributes is the lowest among the teachers?
 Based on the results, objectiveness and self-motivation shared in the lowest attribute.
3. How many teachers are low in emotional stability?
 Based on the results, there is no teacher that has low emotional stability. They were
all in average level.
4. How many teachers are high in compassion?
 Based on the results, there is no teacher that has high compassion. All of them were
in average and very high compassion.
5. What six attributes are found to be strong among the teachers?
 Based on the results, the six attributes found to be strong among the teachers are
intelligence, compassion, pleasantness, reliability, buoyancy and refinement.
6. What six attributes are found to be weak among the teachers?
 Based on the results, objectiveness, cooperation, self-motivation, resourcefulness, emotional
stability and self-confidence were attributes that is weak among the respondents.
7. What interesting observations can spot from the other data not asked?
 I think, on my own idea, communications skills is another data that was not
asked. Based on our book, communication skills is also one among the attributes
that the teacher must possessed, specifically at this time were 21st Century skills
is being highlighted. We all know that we are now in the advent of this new
challenge (coping with the 21st Century Skills) in the Philippine educational
system.

Use the information from your personal results and those of the ten teachers in making
your reflections that follow.
 My Reflection
After studying the results of your teacher survey, write down your reflections on
the following situations reported to have happened in the school setting.

1. Why are some teachers reported to have bumped a learner’s head on the wall or made a
child swallow scratch paper or pencil filings? What attributes do you think is low for
this teacher?

 Bumping the learner’s head on the wall or made a child swallow scratch paper or
pencil filings tell us that the teacher has low emotional stability and compassion to
his work. The teacher with good emotional stability can maintain poise despite of the
things that disturb them such as those hardheaded students which has nothing to do
in the class but to make noise. Teachers remain undisturbed under the pressure in
which despite of personal problems, they still teach and remain to be okay in the
front of his class. They hold their anger so that they will not hurt their students who
make way to make him irritated. He also remains calm in the midst of chaos and
maintains his dignity in all circumstances because teacher who maintains good
emotional stability can contribute to his effectiveness as an educator.

2. Why do you think some teachers are better loved by students than others?

 Sometimes, in realistic sense, teachers with very high pleasantness are better loved
by the students than others. And also, the teachers with high refinement in which he
treat his students with courtesy and know how to adjust and socialize with them.

3. If you were to choose, which attributes should all teachers possess why?

 For me, the attributes that the teacher should possess were centered into the two
qualities of a teacher: professional and personal. First is with intelligence and reliability
(professional). Secondly, with better emotional stability, with self-confidence and
compassion (personal).
 My Affirmed Concepts
After reflecting on this episode and recalling my previous subjects, I have realized
that there are several concepts in the teaching profession about personal attributes I learned
that has been affirmed and confirmed, examples of which are given below:

1. Somehow, I think morality is one among the concepts in teaching profession about
personal attributes that has been affirmed and confirmed. Morality refers to the “quality
of human acts by which we call them right or wrong, good or evil” (Panizo, 1964 cited in
The Teaching Profession Book of Purita P. Bilbao Ed. D., et. Al. p. 28). Our human action
is right when it conforms to the norm, rule or law of morality.

2. Second is our values. Our values formation as teachers will necessarily in include the
three dimensions: cognitive, affective and psychomotor. I realized that we have to grow
in knowledge and in wisdom in our “sensitivity and openness to the variety of value
experiences in life.” (Aquino, 1990 cited in The Teaching Profession Book of Purita P.
Bilbao Ed. D., et. Al. p. 37) We have to be a multicultural teacher which we are open to
and attentive in our values lessons in Ethics and for those in sectarian schools, Ethics and
Religious Education.
 My Future Application

Using what you have learned in this episode, when I become a teacher, I should…

 be a teacher who is well equipped with the good attributes that a good educator must
have. Although nobody is perfect to perfectly possess these good attributes mentioned in
the questionnaires, I realized that this is not the problem. The most important thing is
that I will try to be a teacher more than those who is typical one.

This episode does not just highlight what define me most based on the number of checks
that I have in the checklist on “My Concrete Experience” above but it also tell me what
attributes I should have to effort more.

This episode also tells me to become a teacher who is with “quality of human acts by
which we call them right or wrong, good or evil” referring to morality and we have to
grow in knowledge and in wisdom in our “sensitivity and openness to the variety of value
experiences in life.

It also teaches me to be an educator that is mentally alert, make correct decisions, give
attention to details, analyze every situation and is quick to make solutions as part of the
intelligence where my teacher respondents got high marks.