FOUR PILLARS OF LEARNING

PILLAR Involves I think I am good at this

Learning to Know  Mastering the skills and strategies of
knowing and understanding
 Learning to learn and Discover
 Understanding about one’s environment
 Thinking in a coherent and critical way
 Acquiring a knowledge of the scientific
method and instruments
 Developing a scientific spirit and an
inquiring mind
 Acquiring independence of judgment
Learning to Live  Knowing oneself
Together  Discovering others
 Appreciating the diversity of the human
race
 Being receptive to others and open to
others’ ideas during dialogues and debates
 Caring and sharing X
 Working toward common objectives in
cooperative undertakings
 Managing and resolving conflicts

Learning To Do  Shifting from skill and practical know-how X

to competence
 Applying in practice what has been
learned
 Developing the ability to transform X
knowledge into innovations and job-
creation
 Acquiring new types of skills, more
behavioral than intellectual
 Learning that is no longer limited to work X
but responds to participation in
development
 Communicating, working with others, and
managing and resolving conflicts.
 Developing competence, a mix of higher
skills, of social behavior, of an aptitude for
team work, and initiative/readiness to
take risks
 Acquiring new types of skills, more
behavioral than intellectual
 Learning that is no longer limited to work
but responds to participation in
development
 Communicating, working with others, and
managing and resolving conflicts
Learning to be  Developing the mind and body,
intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic sense,
personal responsibility, and spiritual
values
 Nurturing imagination and creativity X
 Being complete in oneself, in all the X
richness of one’s personality
 Developing one’s full potentials and
tapping the hidden treasure within oneself
 Relative to the Four Pillars of Learning, I believe that although I have acquired important
characteristics of a 21st century teacher, I need to learn more. I find myself lacking in areas of
Learning To do and Learning to be. In the Area “ Learning To do” , I can learn theories, principles
and receptive to new ideas and trends in teaching, however, I am lacking in finding practical
applications of my teachings. I feel that my effort is not enough in preparing my children to the
real world. While, in Learning to be, I need to enhance my creativity and imagination to make my
teachings attractive to students. I have to improve myself and my personality to adapt to the
demands of the 21st century classroom.