This document discusses teaching as a career for educational psychology students. It outlines the skills needed to be an effective teacher, such as classroom management, teaching strategies, lesson planning, and assessment. Benefits of an educational psychology background are also highlighted, including understanding contemporary psychology, student motivation, development, and intervention strategies. Requirements to teach include passing the LET and obtaining specific degrees depending on the education level. Characteristics of successful teachers include being proactive, goal-oriented, prioritizing tasks, having a cooperative attitude, listening skills, teamwork, and self-improvement. The core of teaching is maintaining a love of learning, passion for teaching, and care for students.

1. Teaching as a Career
for Educational Psychology
Students
Carlo Magno, Phd.
Professor of Educational Psychology

2. The Teacher
Thirty years ago he began teaching
Young children in their three and fours
He didn’t know much about children at first,
But over time learned more and more.
He gave them hugs and wiped their tears,
And never left them alone;
He guided them through the small things,
Which often turned out to be milestones.

3. His first students are all grown now,
And he waves to them when they pass;
There’s a banker, a writer, a lawyer, an artist, and
parents with children in her class.
To those who ask if he plays all day, he says with a
gleam in her eye
That he teaches bankers to add and subtract,
And Artists the color of the sky

4. He teaches the alphabet to writers
And lawyers what it means to be fair;
He teaches politicians to take their turn,
And executives how to share.
He knows that what’s learned in the sand-box
will influence them for years to come;
It’s the little things that shape them,
So impressionable are the young.

5. If you took work with children,
And dance and sing and play
Don’t forget that you shape the future
By who you teach today.

6. Goals in teaching
– Service to the country
– Developing the future leaders of the country
Opportunities: Is it easy to apply in schools?
CHED national trends on teaching as job
– 2nd
to the highest paid job in the Philippines

7. Skills Needed as Teachers
Classroom Management

8. Skills Needed as Teachers
Teaching Strategies, methods,
techniques

9. Skills Needed as Teachers
Lesson Planning

10. Skills Needed as Teachers
Assessment

11. Advantages of Educational Psychology
majors as teachers
Contemporary
Psychological
Perspectives
Motivating students
Assessment of complex
traits of students
Developmental levels
Individual differences
Intervention on Problematic
students
Research

12. Requirements
Preschool or Grade school Pass the LET before
permanency (private schools)
Passed the LET (Public schools)
High School Pass the LET before
permanency (private schools)
with specialized subject area
Passed the LET (Public schools)
with specialized subject area
Higher Education Master Degree (Assistant
Professor)
PhD/Ded Degree (Associate
Professor→Full Professor)

13. Characteristics Needed
Proactive – take responsibility

14. Characteristics Needed
Begin with an end in mind – define your
mission and goals in life

15. Characteristics Needed
Put first things first - Prioritize and do the most
important things first.

16. Characteristics Needed
Think Win-Win - Have an "everyone-can-win"
attitude

17. Characteristics Needed
Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood - Listen to people sincerely

18. Characteristics Needed
Synergize - Work together to achieve more

19. Characteristics Needed
Sharpen the Saw - Renew yourself regularly

20. Going back to the basic things:
“Everything I need to
know I learned in
Kindergarten”
Love for learning,
Passion for teaching, &
care for people