Outside of the western world, Philippines is probably one of the biggest users of psychological tests. In the Philippines, psychological tests are extensively used in educational, clinical, and industrial settings. But at the same time that tests are widely used, they are also misused or abused. Often, the ordinary lay person has unrealistic expectations of…
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Cheating In Schools and Colleges: What to Do About It
The Philippine school stands out as a fertile ground for the realization of values in the individual and society in general. It is seen by our educators as the seed of hope for social transformation. It has been put into the limelight to provide not just the knowledge to survive but also the anchor in…
My Personal Philosophy as a Guidance Counselor
A program of guidance services is an integral part of the educational set-up of a school. It’s services, interwoven into the total school program, reach every individual student’s personal needs and desires and his physical and social environment. The guidance counselor helps students analyze and assess their physical, mental, social and emotional assets and liabilities…
Classroom Discipline
It is a sad thing to read in the newspapers and hear over the radio that a number of teachers were suspended or terminated from the service due to the imposition of corporal punishments on misbehaved learners. This is happening to some teachers because they connote discipline with corporal punishment. Basically, the teacher should always…
Application of Cognitive-Field Theories to Classroom and School Practices
From the point of view of Cognitive-Field Psychology, a person learns through differentiating, generalizing, and restructuring his person and his psychological environment in such a way that he acquires new or changed insights of meanings, and achieves changes in motivation, grasps belongingness, time perspective, and ideoloy, and gains control of himself and his world. Applied…
Managing Classroom Behavior Problems
BEHAVIORAL problems make up a part of the daily classroom routine. Some children call attention to themselves only in the classroom. Others experience difficulty in their social relationships with their peers. Several may exhibit unusual behaviors which contribute to the disruption of classes. The following are just a sampling of behavior problems the teacher encounters…
Ways and Means of Raising an Intelligent Child
According to psychologists, a child develops 50 percent of his/her intelligence by the age of four, and the most influencing factors are, of course, the environment, the parents interest in his/her education, and the last is stimulation. Yes, in this book, psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, says that there is a great link between childhood and environment…
School Discipline that Works
Each school has it own style of discipline. The style varies from positive to punitive. Usually, schools adapt punitive style of discipline for this is easier to implement and faster in obtaining obedience. But this style only suppressed the bad behavior of students. They obey the rules and regulations of the school not because they…