ACTIVITY ON MODULE 4
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My Models and Mentors
List the most important role models and mentors in your life. Then describe what their positive modeling and mentoring have meant to your development.
| Role Models and Mentors | Their Contributions |
| Helen Keller | She taught me that learning can be a happy and beautiful process that possible to do no matter what. |
| Sir Talento (My Calculus Teacher) | He taught me that school life is just about understanding/comprehending lessons and having fun afterwards. |
| Paulo Freire | He taught me that learners are not vessels that need to be filled with information, but are investments that should reflect and apply learnings. |
| Luzviminda Samonte (My Mom) | She taught me that perseverance can take you a long way no matter how difficult it gets. |
| Zandroval Samonte (My Dad) | He taught me to reward myself, to take things easy and to enjoy life. |
The type of role model I want to be for others (other learners)
Describe which characteristics and behaviors you believe are the most important for you to model for your students.
| Characteristics and Behaviors |
| 1. Passionate to learn |
| 2. Finds balance in life, not very lenient and not very strenuous |
| 3. Constructivist approach towards learning and teaching |
| 4. Persistent on achieving goals |
| 5. Enjoys every day to the fullest |
How I will incorporate models and mentors in my profession (as an educator)
Describe a systematic plan for bringing models and mentors into your students’ lives in one or more domain(s) you plan to teach, such as math, English, science, music, and so on.
MATH CLASSES:
- I would find the zone of proximal development of students and get to know them first through interactive class activities and personality tests.
- I would then create, design and conduct class activities based on the students’ cognition and behavior that’ll cause them to reflect and apply their experiences and learnings.
– The activities are related to math concepts and lessons.
– Math concepts are illustrated to put a picture in the students’ mind (idea is from Sir Talento).
– Students are equally grouped based on mental performance: students with high performance are not in one group and the same goes for intermediate and low performance students. They are mixed together in one group.
– I would oversee and attend to each student’s concerns and questions during the activities.
– Grading of performance will be individual-based.
In the end, I will be using constructivist approach to teaching, the reinforcement of grades will inevitably be present, and I will orchestrate and facilitate social learning situations that will help improve and develop students’ mental abilities, learning behavior and learning processes.
Who will be my education mentor? What would my ideal education mentor be like?
Do you have someone in mind who might serve as an education mentor when you become a teacher? If so, describe the person.
It would be my calculus teacher, Sir Talento. He would be my mentor and the ideal education mentor. He teaches our class in a way that he makes sure that we fully understood math concepts and principles through illustrations. He also made sure that he had every single student’s attention for us to absorb all the learnings. He made sure that we understood not only the concepts, terms and principles of math, but also the purpose and benefits of being a mathematician. He explained that solving math problems and equations is like going to the gym too work out. The brain exercises when it is being challenged with math problems, and it does not matter if you could not get the correct answer in the end. He said that as long as we tried our best to use the concepts that we know, that’s enough to get our brains ripped for future strategy thinking, application of learnings and IQ-inducing situations. He made us feel that math is no longer about memorizing formulas and doing “machine work,” but instead it was about understanding the origins, meanings and mechanisms of math concepts so that we can use our newfound skills in real life. And that’s what made us learn, by truly understanding math concepts and applying them to real life instances.
A lesson Sir Talento indirectly taught us was that meritocracy does not define us or the degree of intelligence. He gave us all passing and good grades based on our attention and effort to study and learn, not based on our test scores. He made us see that learning and mental development is more important than a grade average on a piece of paper.
Sir Talento would no doubt be the first mentor I would remember when I become a teacher one day.
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