Seminar Topics

• Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

• Improving School Climate: Fighting Bully and
Fostering Kindness
• Nobility of the Teaching Profession
• Nature and Goals of Secondary School in Math
and Science Education
TEACHERS AS AGENTS
OF CHARACTER
FORMATION
Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

 This topic provides a functional view of

what direction a teacher can take in
deliberately fostering moral character of
the children. Student moral development
is both implicit and inevitable in standard
educational practice.
Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

 The challenge facing teachers and teacher

educators is whether to allow the moral
formation to occur opportunity-letting
students learn what they will know, for
good or bad, and to foster an intentional,
transparent, and deliberative approach
that seriously considers the moral
dimensions of teaching and schooling.
Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

 It is important to know that when

teachers are intentional and they provide
students with a deliberate, positive
influence on their individual and group
characters.
Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

 First, teachers can point out the

importance of establishing a respectful
and caring environment with students,
helping teachers understand and practice
different ways to do this. This is
accompanied by helping teachers learn
how to establish a supportive classroom
climate, which is important for
achievement and ethical character
development.
 Teachers as Agents of Character Formation

 Second, teachers help their students identify the

ethical skills that support academic and social
success, guiding them to understand ways to use
them during the school day in academic and non-
academic lessons.
 Third, teachers must learn and instill on their
children how to cultivate expertise in students
not only in their academic discipline, but also for
an ethical social life.
 Fourth, in subject matter and in social life,
teachers assist their learners develop techniques
to help them foster self-regulation and self-
efficacy.
IMPROVING SCHOOL
CLIMATE: FIGHTING
BULLY AND FOSTERING
KINDNESS
Improving School Climate: Fighting
Bully and Fostering Kindness
 "Bullying is a poisonous educational
environment and affects the learning of
every child.“
 Learn what you can do to keep bullying
behavior from poisoning your
school. Clearly, schools must take strong
steps to curb bullying that involves
dominant aggressors preying upon weaker
victims who cannot stop the aggression.
Improving School Climate: Fighting
Bully and Fostering Kindness
 But at moments of reflection tells us that
schools face a much broader problem
than bullying of this kind. The broader
problem is cruelty and disrespect of all
kinds, including that between social equals
and near-equals.
Improving School Climate: Fighting
Bully and Fostering Kindness
 In this topic, we need to find out the
practical steps or tips for intervening in
bullying situations by changing the
behavior of bullies and their victims
(students) inside the school setting.
NOBILITY OF THE
TEACHING
PROFESSION
Nobility of the Teaching Profession

 This topic tells about the quality and

characteristics of being noble in character,
might, mind, heart and strength as a
teacher. It identifies the competencies
that make up a professional teacher in the
classroom, in the community and in the
world.
Nobility of the Teaching Profession

 Also to clarify ones values and beliefs in

teaching profession by developing an
appreciation of student for effective
learning as reflected in the performance
of the learner. Lastly, it has also heighten
the nobility of teaching not only as a
profession but also as a vocation and a
mission.
NATURE AND GOALS OF
SECONDARY SCHOOL IN
MATH AND SCIENCE
EDUCATION
Nature and Goals of Secondary School in
Math and Science Education
 Each individual teacher has an opinion
about the aim, nature, goals or objectives
of secondary school in math and science
education. It must be set in the context of
the science and math class, but it will
pervade other subjects and life outside
school. Not only in their own classroom
but also applied outside the school in the
real world or experiential task.
Nature and Goals of Secondary School in
Math and Science Education
 It includes notions of safety and
responsibility when working in math and
science as well as for collaboration with
their shared environment. It is important
to recognize other people, including the
stakeholders, that might have a different
point of view concerning the Math and
Science Education should be all about.
Nature and Goals of Secondary School in
Math and Science Education
 Math and Science aspire to develop
scientifically informed, caring and
responsible individuals who can think
critically and make informed choices
about themselves, the environment and
society. Also the curriculum continues
the development of learning.
Nature and Goals of Secondary School in
Math and Science Education
 Through Math and Sciences, it enables
students to cope confidently needed in
their future studies and, workplaces or
daily life in a technological and
information-rich society nowadays.
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