Teaching Profession

Values
Formation
“Education in values means the
cultivation of effectivity, leading
the educand through exposure to
an experience of value and of the
valuable.”— R. Aquino
 Values Formation and YOU

“To be MORAL
is to be
HUMAN.”

“Living by the
RIGHT VALUES
HUMANIZES.”
 Values Formation and YOU

“ Is there such
thing as
RIGHT,
UNCHANGING
and
UNIVERSAL
values? ”
 Values Formation and YOU

Idealist Point of
View
• There are unchanging and universal
values.
• The values of love, care, and concern
for our fellowmen are values for all
people regardless of time and space.
• These are called transcendent Values
• They remained to be a value even if no
one values them.
 Values Formation and YOU

Relativist Point
of View
• Claim that there are no universal and unchanging
values.
• They assert that values are dependent on time and
place.
• The values that our forefathers believed in are not
necessarily the right values for the present.
Example:
What the British consider as values are not necessarily considered
values by Filipinos.
Values are TAUGHT and CAUGHT

The examples of good men &

women at home, school and
society HAVE FAR MORE
GREATER INFLUENCE on our
values formation than values
lectures delivered by experts.
Values have Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Dimensions

Three (3) Dimensions of Values:

• Cognitive Dimension – Mental understanding and readiness.

We must understand the value that we want to acquire. We
need to know why we have to value such. We need to know
how to live by that value.

• Affective Dimension - Experience toward. One has to feel

something about that value.

• Behavioral dimension - Living by the value is the true acid

test if we really value a value.
 Value Formation includes Formation in the Cognitive, Affective
& Behavioral Aspects
• Your value formation as a teacher will necessarily include
those dimensions.

• You have to be open and attentive in your value lessons .

• Read some biographies and other inspirational book.

• Associate with model teachers. If possible, avoid the ‘yeast’

of those who will not exert a very good influence.

• Avoid loud and aggressive persons

• Join community immersions to be exposed to people in various

walk of life
 Value Formation is a Training of the Intellect and the Will

Will Intellect
wills to act on the distinguishes a value
right value and wills and presents It to the
to avoid wrong value will as a right or
presented by wrong value.
intellect.

“the intellect
proposes and
 Value Formation is a Training of the Intellect and the Will

Your INTELLECT
must be enlightened
by what is true
Nothing is WILLED
unless it is first
known.
 Value Formation is a Training of the Intellect and the Will

William Kelly, 1965 said that it is necessary to

develop your intellect in its 3 functions:
1. Formation
3. Reasoning
of Ideas

2. Judgement
It is also important to develop
your WILL for it to be strong
enough to act on the good and
avoid the bad.
 Value Formation is a Training of the Intellect and the Will

How can you train you will to desire the desirable and act on it?

• Training of the will must be essentially self-training

• The habit of yielding to impulse results in the enfeeblement of self-control
• The power of inhibiting urgent desires, of concentrating attention on more
remote good, of reinforcing the higher but less urgent motives undergoes a
kind of atrophy through disuse.
• Habitual yielding to any vice, while it does not lessen man’s responsibility,
does diminish his ability to resist temptation.
• The more frequently man restrains impulse, persists against temptation,
and steadily aims at virtuous living, the more does he increase his self-
control, and therefore his freedom.
• To have strong will means to have control of the will, to be able to direct it
despite all contrary impulses.
Virtuous Versus Vicious Life And Their Effect On The Will

VIRTUOUS LIFE strengthens you to live by

the right values and live a life of abundance
and joy

while
a VICIOUS LIFE leads to
perdition and misery.

Warning: Never give way to a vice!

Instead develop worthwhile hobbies. Cultivate good habits
 MAX SCHELER’S HIERARCHY OF VALUES

• Aesthetic values
(Beauty vs. ugliness) • Belief
• Values of right & • Adoration
• Sensual Feeling • Health and Vitality wrong • Bliss
• Experiences of
• Values of pure
pleasure or pain
knowledge

PLEASURE VALUES VITAL VALUES SPIRITUAL VALUES

-the pleasant against the -values pertaining to the
unpleasant well being either of the
-the agreeable against individual or of the
the disagreeable community
Values of Vital Feeling
(Capability and excellence)
-values independent of the
whole sphere of the body
and the environment;
-grasped in spiritual acts of
preferring, loving and
hating
VALUES OF HOLY
-appear only in regard to
objects intentionally given
as “absolute objects”
 Values Clarification
The term value is reserved for those individual beliefs,
attitudes and activities that satisfy the following
criteria:

1. Freely chosen
2. Chosen from among alternatives
3. Chosen after due reflection
4. Prized and cherished
5. Publicly affirmed
6. Incorporated into actual behavior
7. Acted upon repeatedly in one’s life
Principles of Learning

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