FS 2 Episode 2

Field Study 2: Experiencing the Teaching-Learning Process

Episode 1

LOOKING THROUGH THE MEANINGFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE

MY TOOLS

As you visit a school and observe the teaching-learning practices, use the activity forms to document your observation and write your insights or reflections.

MY JOURNAL

Name of the School Observed: Central II Elementary School School Address: Calamba, Laguna Date of Visit: January 8, 2014 Grade/ Year Level: Grade III-Aries Subject Area: Math Topic: How to use the Scientific Calculator

Description of Teaching Strategies: Since the subject area was Mathematics, the teacher used the strategy of first beginning with what the students knew like; What is a calculator? Have they ever seen one? What do they think is the importance of it? And What is the importance of it. After, a little exchange of thoughts and ideas between the students, the teacher proceed to the topic. The strategy she used after the first stated was to move from simple to complex concepts. First the simple fundamental operations on the calculator, the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. After doing so, they proceed to the more complex one like the sin ɵ, cos ɵ and tan ɵ. Through this strategy the students would find learning new concepts more easily because they started from recalling and refreshing their prior knowledge and acquiring new ones.

Description of Learning Activities: The learning activities conducted was interesting and at the same time fun. I said this so because of the first activity they do: The teacher assigned the students to form 2 big groups; the objective of the activity was to test their ability to use properly the scientific calculator with accuracy in solving the problems written on the board. This type of activity will surely caught the attention of the students because as we all knew every child loved to play, this type of activity would be very effective to the pupils, but it may be a bit noisy and disorganized that’s why the teacher need to facilitate to maintain order among the class.

Description of Learner’s Participation (proportion of learners who participated and quality of participation): It was very amazing that almost all of the pupils participated from the class, from the recitation up to the activity presented to them. Each pupil was very active, very open about their ideas and willing to be corrected if they miscalculated or miscomputed the problem. Maybe the reason behind this was the effective strategies that suit each and every one of the pupils in the class. ____Sheila Mae Rosali d.N. Lavapie_____ Signature over Printed Name of FS Student Attested by __Mrs. Luningning Halili__                                                                                                                   Cooperating Teacher

Scribble a brief reflection of your feelings and insights from your observation experience.

• As I observe the class of Grade III-Aries this only proved that they are very well disciplined and fast learners. I also noticed that they are very much interested to learn, they pursue very hard not just to understand but to comprehend the topic. Also realized that the teacher’s strategies and prepared learning activities will greatly contribute to the pupil’s learning. The teacher should also think for new ideas in order to make the class alive and to keep the pupil’s interest in the class. Just like what Mrs. Halili did, she think of a fun learning activity that not just only will test the learners’ understanding but also something that the pupils will enjoyed.