The Role of TeacherPrepared by: Lester Paradillo

WORDSHAKE

D U C T A I N O E

The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at

school or university.

EDUCATION

C H R E T E A

A person who provides education for students.

TEACHER

U R C A R E P O S L I N A S

Care for the entire person

CURA PERSONALIS

D N T S U E T

A person who attends school, college, or university.

STUDENT

T Y O S C E I F O S J U S E

It is a male religious congregation of the Catholic church. The members are called Jesuits.

SOCIETY OF JESUS

L E C E R F I O T N

Encourages learning as personalize and learner-active, and whose aim is not merely the assimilation of subject matter but the development of the person.

Reflection

Introduction

• Ignatian Pedagogy was published in 1993

• The foundational document The Characteristics of Jesuit Education (1986)

• Ignatian Pedagogy aims to do the same for the classroom teacher in a Jesuit school.

A Jesuit Method of Teaching

• Ignatian pedagogy is inspired by faith.

• Attention to care for the individual student (known by the Jesuit term cura personalis)

A Jesuit Method of Teaching Cont..

• As St. Paul reminds us, “the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body…” �

(1 Corinthians 12:12)

• St. Ignatius once wrote a letter to a Jesuit ordering him to take better care of his health after learning that he was not eating properly; Ignatius wrote, “For the next three months, from now until September, you are to do no preaching, but are to look after your health.” Ignatius implored him to follow doctor’s advice �under the vow of obedience.

What is a Teacher?

Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J.

“Elicits from students the deep desires that God had planted in

them”

TEACHER

The Goal of Jesuit Education

• The ultimate aim of Jesuit education is that full growth of the person which leads to action.

The Role of the Teacher

Teachers are more than academic guides, they are involve in the lives of the students, taking a personal interest in the intellectual, affective, moral and spiritual development of every student, helping each one to develop a sense of worth and to become a responsible individual within the community.

The Role of the Teacher cont..

• In a Jesuit school, the chief responsibility for moral as well as for intellectual formation rests finally not upon any procedure or curricular or extra-curricular activity, but upon the teacher, under God

The Role of the Teacher cont..

• St Ignatius places the teacher’s personal example ahead of learning as a means to help students grow in values.

The Role of the Teacher cont..

• The teacher creates the conditions, lays the foundations and provides the opportunities for the continual interplay of the student's experience, reflection and action to occur.

The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm

ACTIONREFLECTION

EXPERIENCE

Experience

• St Ignatius urges that the whole person (mind, heart and will) should enter the learning experience

Help each student to become an independent learner, to assume responsibility for his or her own education

Teacher is at the service of the students, alert to detect special gifts or special difficulties, personally concerned, and assisting in the development of the inner potential of each individual student.

Reflection

• A major challenge to a teacher at this stage of the learning paradigm is to formulate questions that will broaden students' awareness and impel them to consider the viewpoints of others, especially of the poor.

Help students to reflect on personal experiences so that they can understand their own experience of God.

Action

• For St Ignatius, the acid test of love is what one does, not what one says: "Love is shown in deeds, not words.” • The Jesuits were most concerned with the formation of

students' attitudes, values, ideals according to which they would make decisions about what was to be done.

Activity

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