Teaching Profession

1. CHRISTIAN
PHILOSOPHY
Prepared by: Fritz John M.
Saloma

2. It relates knowledge systematically.
It strives for coherence, the formulation
of a worldview.
Its method is to consult information
from the total experience.

3. The Biblical Base
Bible
 the primary source for all
learning
Must be the vital part of the
content of the curriculum and
integrated with all subject matter.

4. Purpose of Christian
Philosophy of Education
to develop biblical character in
the lives of the students (virtue).
To secure for students the
appropriate wealth of knowledge
of Christ

5. CURRICULUM
should be lively and appropriate to the
needs of the learner, as well as to the
needs of the community as a whole.
must be academically sound and based
upon truth, not on prejudiced or biased
points of view.
attain mastery of the subject within the
context of a biblical world view.

6. Why teach?
to love the Lord God with all their
hearts.
to become an effective believer.
Disciple students to develop Christian
lifestyle characteristics.
Help the students to articulate the hope
that lies within him/her

7. What to teach?
Virtue or moral maturity
Knowledge or intellectual maturity
Self-control or physical maturity
Fortitude or emotional maturity
Piety or spiritual maturity
Kindness or social maturity

8. How to teach?
all procedures and processes must
be based on a definite theory of
knowledge.

9. The Implications for the
Teaching-Learning Process
process of guided learning where the
teacher and the Holy Spirit combine efforts
to help the leaner to spiritually grow and
mature, to more and more conform to the
image of Christ.

10. seeks to develop the learner a
worldview, a perspective that
enables him to understand,
appreciate, and live a Christian
life in the world in which God
has placed him.

11. Who is Responsible for the
Education of an Individual?
According to Deuteronomy 6:6-7, the
parents are the primary educators of the
student.
People in Bible times recognized the
value of placing students under
instructors.

12. Who is Responsible for the
Education of an Individual
Today, parents should see the
church as being a coop in religious
education of their children

13. The Role of the Teacher
The teacher is a model of a Christian
lifestyle (2 Tim. 3:14-17).
The teacher is an instructor of truth
(1 Tim. 1:3-4)
The teacher is one who guides, facilitates,
and shapes learning

14. Role of the learner
”The pupil’s growth is
determined not by what he
hears but by what he does
about what he hears.”

15. Focus On The Learner
A learner is a real person.
Teachers do not teach lessons
They teach people!

16. “Train up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from
it.”
Proverbs 22:6