Teacher’s Role & Educational Objectives in Primary Education
Functions of a Teacher
The Teaching Function
Legal Duties
- Teacher duties include programming and teaching, assessing learning, mentoring students, providing educational guidance, attending to student well-being, promoting school activities, fostering a respectful environment, reporting to families, coordinating teaching, participating in school activities, engaging in evaluation plans, and continuous improvement of teaching processes.
- Teachers perform these functions collaboratively.
Research on the
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ITEM 5: Education of the Feelings
Feeling: Concept
Formal education emphasizes knowledge acquisition, often separating it from emotional development. This leads to:
- Emphasis on skills for economic ends, treating education as a product.
- Disconnect between skills development and personal/emotional growth.
- Limited critical examination of values in educational language.
Understanding and Feeling
- Understanding and feeling should be integrated.
- Educating a person involves refining feelings and promoting understanding.
Adolescent Development and Mental Health Essentials
1) Adolescence: Key Changes
Adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and maturity. Adolescents experience significant body changes, intellectual development, and emotional shifts. This includes developing cognitive abilities, abstract thinking, constructing personal identity, and exploring sexuality. Moral and ethical development also occurs, involving the acceptance of values and understanding of norms.
2) Social Skills Essentials
Social skills are behaviors manifested in our social interactions.
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Glossary of Instrumental Conditioning Terms
Drag Instinctive: Gradual deviation of instrumental behavior from required responses. It is influenced by species-specific responses or instinctive reactions to the enhancer and other experimental stimuli.
Punishment: Instrumental conditioning procedure with a positive contingency between the instrumental response and an aversive stimulus. If the response occurs, the aversive stimulus is received; if not, it is avoided.
Instrumental Behavior: Activity performed
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The feeling is to detect anything through the senses, yet without having meaning, and uptake is merely a stimulus.
Perception is the processing of this sensory data to make sense; it is the recognition of a particular object that allows us to understand each other and perform actions.
The relationship between these two concepts has been studied from two theories:
- The relational theory: This theory posits that perception is nothing but a set of feelings and an element of partnership between them provided
Mental and Sexual Health
Mental and Sexual Health: A Comprehensive Guide
Mental Health
Mental health is the ability to adapt to and accept life situations in an acceptable manner. Some believe this definition aligns with the concept of intelligence. We can also define it as self-awareness, self-control, and personal responsibility for one’s actions. Realize that you are responsible for your actions and the consequences in your life.
Physical and Mental Wellbeing
Health is the harmony between what we want and what we have.
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